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
Security researchers investigating the recent "Petya" ransomware outbreak have identified its cause to be "wiper" malware that was possibly unleashed by a state actor.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2017
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