VMware kicked off its annual VMworld conference this week with a multicloud vision that's nevertheless heavy on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 28, 2017
Microsoft has launched a new technical support program called "Microsoft Unified Support," its replacement for the current Premier Support program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 28, 2017
Microsoft recently announced several Azure management capabilities related to Azure Log Analytics, Azure Network Watcher, Azure Monitor and Azure Blob Storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2017
Microsoft is ending development on "Project GigJam," a productivity and collaboration tool for Office 365 that was first unveiled at the 2015 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).
- By Gladys Rama
- August 24, 2017
Microsoft this week launched a preview of "conditional access" restrictions for devices based on Apple's macOS operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2017
Microsoft and Red Hat together issued several announcements this week that signal an extension of their efforts around running Red Hat's open source technologies on Microsoft's Azure infrastructure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2017
In an effort to drive business adoption of its cloud-based Chrome platform, Google this week unveiled a new edition of its Chrome OS operating system for enterprises.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2017
Some editions of Windows 10 will lose file and disk creation capabilities using the Resilient File System (ReFS) later this year, Microsoft said recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2017
Microsoft is taking steps to wind down support for its Team Foundation Server (TFS) product when it's used with SharePoint Server, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2017
A recent article by a Microsoft engineer attempts to nail down the Windows 10 update process that Microsoft has been explaining in dribs and drabs over the last two years.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2017
Microsoft this week spotlighted some new Azure security and management tools that are currently in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 17, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a technical preview of a new service called Azure Event Grid, touting it as the next piece of its serverless computing platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 16, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the addition of role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities to its Intune mobile management service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 16, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday announced its acquisition of Cycle Computing, a provider of solutions for managing large workloads in the public cloud, as well as in hybrid and on-premises datacenter infrastructures.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 15, 2017
Intune, Microsoft's mobile management service, now has the ability to launch Office 365 ProPlus productivity applications for end users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 15, 2017
Microsoft recently shared more of its plans for its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), which will take a somewhat different form in the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 15, 2017
Nonprofit publication Consumer Reports knocked Microsoft's Surface line down a peg last week, retracting its "recommended" designation for the PC and tablet family.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 14, 2017
A new edition of the Windows 10 client OS, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, is coming this fall for organizations with "mission critical and compute intensive workloads," Microsoft said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 11, 2017
Security software vendor Kaspersky Lab on Thursday said it is dropping its antitrust complaints against Microsoft regarding Windows 10's treatment of "third-party" anti-malware products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 10, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the addition of an auto-remediation capability to its Cloud App Security service, enabling administrators to compel user log-ins and invalidate user sessions in response to certain kinds of security threats.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 10, 2017