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
A new expiration capability in Microsoft's Office 365 Groups collaboration service is now available in preview, Microsoft said Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 09, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday launched the public preview of a new service for reporting on mobile device and mobile application use.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 09, 2017
Most partners are not investing enough resources to take full advantage of the cloud opportunity, despite owing an ever-growing proportion of their revenues to cloud-based sales.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2017
Microsoft recently announced new improvements coming to SharePoint, including mobile application support for the new Communication Site feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 07, 2017
Microsoft is giving Office 365 Teams administrators more control over third-party applications, among other improvements the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 04, 2017
Microsoft has released an early version of a new Office 365 feature that would let users permit or block guest access to Office 365 groups.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 04, 2017
Microsoft is changing up how users sign in to Azure Active Directory (AD) and their Microsoft accounts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled two leasing programs for its various Surface devices -- one for students and one for SMBs -- that both have plenty of fine print to consider.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2017
Device Health, a new service from Microsoft designed to check Windows 10 client devices for driver issues and crashes, is now in public preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2017
Microsoft this week announced some additions to its FastTrack for Dynamics 365 program aimed at driving more active usage of the cloud-based CRM/ERP suite.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 01, 2017
Microsoft recently released the new "current branch" version of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 01, 2017
To sidestep potential compliance issues associated with Microsoft's cloud services, an analysts suggests organizations with Enterprise Agreements (EA) should negotiate protections or special discounts upfront.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 31, 2017
Microsoft will make its Windows Subsystem for Linux generally available this fall to coincide with the release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 31, 2017
Microsoft this week described its Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703) as being "fully available" for commercial deployments worldwide.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2017
Microsoft this week released version 1.8 of its Advanced Threat Analytics forensic security solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a technical preview of its new Azure Container Instances (ACI) service, enabling Azure customers to deploy containers on the fly.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 26, 2017