Microsoft recently announced an "updated product servicing policy" for SharePoint Server 2016 that entails a monthly cumulative update model for organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 22, 2017
Microsoft is significantly extending the reach of its cloud-based services by building new datacenters in South Africa, the company announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 22, 2017
Microsoft gave viewers of this week's Virtual Summit event a glimpse of its future plans for SharePoint, including roadmap details and its vision of enabling "digital transformation" across organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 18, 2017
VMware this week announced a partnership with Microsoft that would enable VMware's Horizon Cloud Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) infrastructure to be delivered on the Azure public cloud.
- By Keith Ward
- May 18, 2017
Despite maintaining its healthy lead in the cloud infrastructure services market, Amazon Web Services is facing increasingly strong competition from Microsoft Azure.
- By David Ramel
- May 17, 2017
In its postmortem of last Friday's wide-ranging ransomware attack that targeted Windows systems, Microsoft put part of the blame on the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
- By Chris Paoli
- May 16, 2017
The Azure AD Admin Console, an addition to the Azure Portal, is now generally available (GA) after being in preview since September, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 16, 2017
Azure Active Directory Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Microsoft's customer-facing identity and access management service that launched last July, has a few new perks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 15, 2017
Microsoft is extending its "Insider" approach for testing Windows 10 builds to Windows Server, which will get its own Windows Insider program this summer.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2017
A widespread ransomware outbreak on Friday has attacked an estimated 45,000 systems in 74 countries, according to a report from the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2017
Windows 10 took center stage on the second day of Microsoft's Build developer conference on Thursday, with Microsoft unveiling the next major update of Windows, new core functionality for the platform and major new apps for the Windows Store.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 11, 2017
Microsoft took the wraps off new Office 365 perks and capabilities on Wednesday during the Day 1 keynote of its Build developer conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 11, 2017
In its effort to modernize its infrastructure to support hybrid cloud datacenters of all sizes, Dell EMC this week announced an upgraded version of its PowerEdge server.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 11, 2017
Microsoft kicked off its 2017 Build developer conference on Wednesday in Seattle, Wash., announcing new offerings related to Azure, Cognitive Services, Visual Studio and more.
- By Michael Domingo
- May 10, 2017
A recent Q&A session with Microsoft personnel revealed several noteworthy changes that will affect Microsoft's "Windows as a Service" update process for Windows 10 clients.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 10, 2017
Recent studies indicate that many organizations will begin their Windows 10 migrations this year, despite the challenges of determining application portability and navigating the new "Windows-as-a-Service" update process.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 08, 2017
The Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703) comes with several new browser management policies, as Microsoft explained this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2017
Microsoft this week issued a preview of a new new Power BI apps sharing capability, as well as announced plans to offer a new Power BI Premium subscription plan.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2017
Exactly two years after Microsoft first unveiled Azure Stack, Dell EMC on Thursday announced the first generation of its solution based on the forthcoming private cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 04, 2017
Software security firm Kaspersky Lab is proceeding with its 6-month-old antitrust dispute against Microsoft over Windows 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 03, 2017