Hardware vendors are now implementing Microsoft's "Project Olympus" datacenter specification, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2017
Microsoft this week released a preview version of System Center version 1711, which will be the first release under the management suite's new semiannual update model.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2017
Security software providers Bitdefender, Lookout and Ziften are partnering with Microsoft to integrate the company's Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service into their respective threat protection services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled the next step in its ongoing effort to integrate its various productivity applications with LinkedIn, which it acquired last year for over $26 billion.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 08, 2017
Organizations preparing to deploy Windows 10 can turn to Microsoft's "free" Windows Analytics tools for help, the company said this week in a Web presentation.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2017
More than eight out of 10 organizations have not moved away from premises-based Microsoft Office products, according to a study published this week by Spiceworks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2017
Microsoft this week turned the spotlight on the "Fall Creators Update" edition of Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT), previously known as Windows Embedded.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 03, 2017
Microsoft shared some broad plans for its forthcoming Office 2019 productivity suite, as well as Exchange Server 2019, Skype for Business Server 2019 and SharePoint Server 2019, in a Web presentation this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2017
After a three-month beta period, the Business edition of Microsoft 365 is now ready for production use.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 01, 2017
Despite recording significant increases in their latest earnings reports, neither Microsoft nor Google managed to put a significant dent in Amazon's lead in the cloud infrastructure services market.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 01, 2017
Microsoft this week said it will begin shipping its Surface Pro laptop with Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced connectivity in December.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2017
Microsoft recently touted its hardware partners' efforts around Skype Room Systems (SRS), even as the Skype for Business platform itself is in flux.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 31, 2017
Microsoft recently added a new troubleshooting capability to Intune, its mobile device and application management service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 31, 2017
Organizations worried about how the planned transition from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams will affect their communications received reassurances from Microsoft this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 27, 2017
Microsoft's new fiscal year got off to a much better start than expected, with the company reporting $24.5 billion in revenues for its first FY18 quarter, more than $1 billion higher than analysts had forecast.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 26, 2017
A report on Wednesday citing Microsoft officials indicates that Microsoft is no longer manufacturing Kinect cameras.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 26, 2017
Google is partnering with Cisco on a hybrid cloud effort that will enable workloads to run on Cisco's UCS hyperconverged infrastructure hardware and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2017
Microsoft this week outlined its roadmap for bringing Skype for Business capabilities into Microsoft Teams, a decision it first announced at its Ignite event last month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled new container management services for its Azure cloud, including those aimed at the Kubernetes open source container orchestration solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2017
A strategic partnership announced Monday between Microsoft and Cray will bring the latter's supercomputing capabilities to the Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017