Microsoft on Thursday said it plans to acquire Acton, Mass.-based Cloudyn, which provides public cloud monitoring services for MSPs, cloud solution providers and enterprises.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2017
The upcoming Windows 10 "Fall Creators Update" will include the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), which had been slated for the chopping block not long ago.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2017
Just over a month after the WannaCry/WannaCrypt outbreak, a new ransomware attack has reportedly crippled Windows systems worldwide, according to an article by Reuters on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 28, 2017
A recent survey by Adaptiva indicates that organizations are generally receptive to migrating their environments to Windows 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2017
Microsoft recently delivered a mixed bag of news to organizations either using or considering the use of its Teams chat service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 26, 2017
Microsoft recently launched a preview release of the new Forms service for business users of Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 26, 2017
Open source Azure tools were on center stage Wednesday, as Microsoft and some of its open source partners conducted an online presentation aimed at courting developers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2017
Lenovo this week launched its most expansive portfolio of new datacenter products, over two years after acquiring IBM's x86 server business at the peak of the market.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 22, 2017
In an apparent response to recent allegations made by security software vendor Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft on Tuesday detailed its approach to third-party anti-virus software, particularly in Windows 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2017
Microsoft on Monday began rolling out some minor improvements to Office 365 users of Outlook 2016 for Mac.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2017
Microsoft and Accenture on Monday unveiled a prototype of a new technology that lets individuals use biometrics to create digital identities based on the blockchain Ethereum protocol.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 19, 2017
Microsoft has pulled the plug on its long-running Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool, the company recently announced.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2017
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory service now supports single sign-on access to legacy Web applications with this week's release of PingAccess with Azure AD.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2017
Microsoft's Surface family of devices -- including the Surface Laptop, Surface Pro and Surface Studio -- is coming to more markets worldwide, the company said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2017
Microsoft on Thursday said it will issue two updates per year for Windows Server starting this fall, mirroring the new update schedule it has adopted for Windows 10, System Center and Office 365 ProPlus.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 15, 2017
Microsoft this week announced it has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, solidifying its relationship with the popular open source cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 15, 2017
Verizon Communications on Tuesday completed its purchase of Yahoo, a pioneer in search advertising that was once eyed by Microsoft as a potential buy.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 14, 2017
Microsoft's latest round of security updates took the unusual step of releasing "critical" updates for older Windows systems to protect against "potential nation-state activity."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 13, 2017
As part of its transition to Dynamics 365, Microsoft is preparing to replace its Parature solution with the Dynamics 365 Customer Service application.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 13, 2017
The "Premium" version of Microsoft's Power BI data analytics offering is now generally available.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 12, 2017