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
Microsoft has released the next version of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
- By Gladys Rama
- October 31, 2016
Microsoft has released a new Mac client of its Skype for Business service, as well as announced updates to iOS and Android clients.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 31, 2016
Dynamics Marketing, a core component of Microsoft's Dynamics CRM Online product, will be phased out next month to make room for a new marketing app that's part of the upcoming Dynamics 365 solution.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 28, 2016
Microsoft this week announced several enhancements coming to its Power BI product, including the ability for IT to assign the role of a Power BI service administrator to specific personnel.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 28, 2016
Microsoft's newest enterprise integration server, BizTalk Server 2016, became generally available on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 27, 2016
The next generation of computing will be marked by advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and old-guard tech companies like Microsoft and IBM are vying to establish their place in it.
- By David Ramel
- October 27, 2016
The next major Windows 10 update, previously known by its codename "Redstone 2," will launch next spring as the "Windows 10 Creators Update."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 26, 2016
Microsoft's Windows Server 2016 Essentials product is now generally available (GA), the company said Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 26, 2016
Google has expanded its datacenter service offerings to include Windows Server 2016 instances, the search giant announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2016
Microsoft recently unveiled a new Managed Solutions Gallery for SharePoint Server that's designed to assure users that code for SharePoint applications is trusted.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2016
Oracle has ushered in the next generation of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) portfolio with the launch of its its new Bare Metal Cloud Services.
- By John K. Waters
- October 24, 2016
Mark Kashman, a senior product manager on Microsoft's SharePoint team, shared more details of Microsoft's plans for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 21, 2016
Microsoft beat analyst estimates in its first quarter earnings report released Thursday, and saw its stock price surge in after-hours trading.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 20, 2016
Longtime collaborators Microsoft and SAP deepened their partnership this week with the news that SAP's cloud-based human resources software will run on the Azure public cloud.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 20, 2016
Organizations can now link their Facebook pages to Microsoft's new scheduling service called Bookings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 20, 2016
VMware is enabling support for Microsoft's Skype for Business product in its Horizon 7 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, the company said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 20, 2016