Microsoft announced the first service pack (SP1) of its SQL Server 2016 product on Wednesday at its Connect() developer conference, taking place this week in New York.
- By Chris Paoli
- November 16, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday took steps toward its goal to "democratize" artificial intelligence, partnering with nonprofit research organization OpenAI and announcing several Azure milestones aimed at helping developers tap into the platform's new compute capabilities.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2016
Small-business users of Microsoft's Office 365 Business Premium offering will soon have access to a new customer relationship feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2016
Microsoft's Windows Azure Pack solution is "far from being dead," Microsoft said this week after updating the product's lifecycle support information.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2016
Microsoft recently detailed its update model for Windows Server 2016, which became generally available in mid-October.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2016
Microsoft announced the preview of a new tool today that will check how well System Center Operations Manager 2012 products are performing, compared with Microsoft's best practices recommendations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2016
Yet another possible solution for Surface Pro 3's battery problems was released by Microsoft this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory portal for administrators, currently in preview, now includes new auditing features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2016
In a sign that the "software-defined" movement has gone mainstream, Microsoft is touting its latest server OS as the perfect platform for running a software-defined datacenter (SDDC).
- By David Ramel
- November 09, 2016
Organizations using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 may feel some headaches over Microsoft's new update service model for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 clients.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2016
Microsoft is delivering on some its earlier SharePoint Server 2016 promises with the release of Feature Pack 1 on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Container Service (ACS) Engine is now an open source project hosted on the GitHub repository, Microsoft announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2016
Microsoft plans to shutter its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) solution, though the process will take a little longer than originally expected.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2016
A new Microsoft technology dubbed "Unified Update Platform" promises to cut the size of future Windows 10 updates by a third.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2016
The support clock is ticking for users of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) version 1511.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2016
Subscribers of Office 365 Business and Office 365 Business Premium plans will soon be able to use the Microsoft Access relational database management system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2016
Microsoft's plan to acquire Slack for $8.5 billion may have never gone beyond rumor, but its challenge to the popular enterprise chat platform is real.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 02, 2016
Microsoft's long-term servicing branch (LTSB) concept for Windows 10 comes with a notable caveat for organizations using the Surface tablet-PC device.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2016
Microsoft this week took the wraps off "Project Olympus," an effort to speed up datacenter hardware contributions to the Open Compute Project (OCP).
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2016
After a six-month public beta period, Microsoft's PowerApps and Flow developer services are now commercially available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2016