SQL Server 2017, Microsoft's next-generation relational database platform, is inching closer to general availability with this week's Release Candidate 1 (RC1) rollout.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 18, 2017
Members of Microsoft's Windows Insider Program recently received access to the first preview build of Windows Server 2016, dubbed build 16237.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2017
Microsoft's recently unveiled plan to expand rural broadband access in the United States using white space has been criticized by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) as being "the height of arrogance."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2017
Starting this month, subscribers of Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service will be able to access an intelligent search capability that will make it easier to find photos of receipts, whiteboards, drawings and signs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2017
With the European Union preparing to overhaul its data privacy laws next year, Microsoft is urging its partners to take advantage of the opportunity as customers grapple with the changes.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2017
Microsoft this week said it plans to make Intel's newly released Xeon Scalable processors "a cornerstone" of Project Olympus, its open source datacenter hardware effort.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2017
Microsoft is readying preview releases of three new applications for Office 365 Business Premium, the company announced at its Inspire partner conference this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2017
Kirill Tatarinov is stepping down from his position as CEO of Citrix, 18 months after taking the reins at the virtualization and networking giant.
- By Keith Ward
- July 11, 2017
Microsoft is making it possible for more partners to build solutions around its HoloLens mixed reality technology.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 11, 2017
After a four-month preview, Quest on Tuesday released its new cloud-based platform for managing Office 365 applications and Azure Active Directory implementations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 11, 2017
A new Microsoft solution that integrates the Dynamics 365 Sales app, Office 365 and Azure with LinkedIn's Sales Navigator tool is now generally available.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 10, 2017
Microsoft's launch hardware partners will begin taking orders Monday for Azure Stack, a parallel version of the software that powers the Microsoft Azure public cloud and that customers will run in their own datacenters for hybrid cloud scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 10, 2017
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a marketing and substance overhaul to its Secure Productive Enterprise package that will be called Microsoft 365.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 10, 2017
Microsoft has unveiled a new program that would let ISVs developing on Azure to bolt other Microsoft solutions onto their applications.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 10, 2017
Microsoft has expanded its FastTrack program again, this time to cover customer migrations to the Azure cloud platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 07, 2017
It's boom times for Internet of Things (IoT) spending and, by extension, for the partners that are able to develop strong IoT practices.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 07, 2017
The long-rumored, cloud-oriented sales and marketing reorganization at Microsoft is taking shape this week with a companywide e-mail and all-hands meeting on Monday, along with region-specific detail meetings going on for the rest of this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 05, 2017
Microsoft last week took the wraps off the Windows AutoPilot service, which is designed to help end users easily provision new Windows 10 PCs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 03, 2017
Accenture, the world's largest independent global IT consulting and systems integration firm, is also set to become the world's largest adopter of Windows 10.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 03, 2017
Microsoft this week released a preview of the SharePoint Communication Site feature to Office 365 "first release" subscribers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2017