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Microsoft Confirms Windows Server Support for ARM

Microsoft revealed this week that it is currently running Windows Server on ARM machines in its datacenters using chips from multiple vendors, including Qualcomm and Cavium.

Microsoft Bringing News Feed Improvements to SharePoint Online

Many of the SharePoint user improvements that Microsoft promised at its SharePoint 2016 launch event last year are starting to take shape.

Microsoft Road-Testing Smaller Update Sizes for Windows 10

Windows Insiders are currently putting Microsoft's newly reformatted Windows 10 update packages through their paces.

Microsoft Adds Visio Online to Office 365

Most commercial Office 365 subscribers now have access to the Visio Online process-mapping service, Microsoft announced last week.

Microsoft Integrating Yammer with Office 365 Groups

In a bid to give end users more collaborative tools, Microsoft said it will begin connecting its Yammer enterprise social networking solution with the Groups functionality in Office 365.

Microsoft Starts Selling 'Premium Assurance' for SQL Server, Windows Server

Organizations anticipating difficulties in carrying out future Windows Server or SQL Server upgrades can now purchase insurance-type plans from Microsoft.

Microsoft Launches Revamped Office 365 Service Health Dashboard

Microsoft is beginning to roll out a new service health dashboard to Office 365 subscribers, the company announced on Wednesday.

Windows 10 'Creators Update' Improves System Reboots

The upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update will come with new user controls, as demonstrated by Microsoft this week.

Microsoft Releases Final Azure Stack Technical Preview

The third and final technical preview (TP) of Azure Stack, Microsoft's solution for organizations that want to run the Azure public cloud platform in private datacenters, is now available.

April Marks Support Deadline for Exchange 2007

Microsoft this week issued a reminder of Exchange Server 2007's impending support deadline.

Azure AD Monitoring Features Hit Prime Time

A pair of Azure Active Directory monitoring capabilities are now out of the preview stage.

Microsoft Rolls Out Premium Version of Outlook.com

Microsoft has quietly released a premium, ad-free version of its Outlook.com e-mail service, testing consumers' appetite to pay for personal e-mail services that they've used at no cost for decades.

Microsoft Makes SharePoint Framework Generally Available

Microsoft's SharePoint Framework is now ready for commercial use, having reached the "general availability" milestone on Thursday.

Microsoft Launches SharePoint 'Hybrid Taxonomy,' Talks Roadmap Plans

Microsoft this week announced some new SharePoint features and capabilities, both immediately available and still to come later this year.

Veritas Outsources Cloud Archive Service to Microsoft Azure

As part of a multi-year cloud partnership with Microsoft, Veritas Software on Wednesday announced it is migrating its Enterprise Vault.cloud (EV.cloud ) data archiving service from its own managed datacenters to Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Brings Open Source Kubernetes to Azure Containers

Microsoft on Tuesday announced new support for Kubernetes, a Google-fostered open source technology, in its Azure Container Service.

Microsoft, AWS Move To Comply with Revamped EU Privacy Law

As they each expand their cloud footprints in Europe, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are touting their support for the European Union's newly revamped data privacy regulations.

Microsoft Talks Windows 10 Readiness and Imaging Rights

A recent presentation by SmartDeploy, a Seattle-based firm that makes Windows and application deployment solutions, included an explanation from a Microsoft product manager of how imaging works under its Volume Licensing program.

AWS Takes On Skype, Cisco with New UC Offering

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new enterprise unified communications (UC) service this week named Chime, pitting it against the likes of Microsoft's Skype for Business and Cisco's WebEx.

Windows, Mac PCs To Get New Yammer Desktop Apps

Microsoft plans to roll out new Yammer desktop applications for Windows and Mac PCs "in the next few months," the company said on Tuesday.