Microsoft took steps to expand its cloud footprint this week with the launch of new datacenter locations in the United Kingdom.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 07, 2016
Starting Nov. 1, Microsoft will stop providing updates for its SmartScreen e-mail spam filters, the company said earlier this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 07, 2016
Microsoft this week announced a number of end-user improvements coming to Office 365 Groups and SharePoint Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 02, 2016
Microsoft's promised pay-as-you go version of Windows 10 Enterprise is now available through its Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 01, 2016
The latest messaging from Microsoft indicates that organizations have little choice but to adapt to Windows 10's servicing model to keep their Windows clients and servers -- including older versions -- updated and patched.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2016
Microsoft's fiery COO moves on, leaving the company firmly in Nadella's grip.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 30, 2016
Starting next month, Microsoft will be folding its Azure Active Directory Groups capability into its Intune mobile management service, replacing the old Intune Groups feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 30, 2016
Microsoft is stumping for Windows Server 2016 ahead of its debut next month at the Ignite conference. This week, the company touted the new server's technical performance specs compared to the current crop of Windows Server offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 26, 2016
Microsoft is readying a new offer aimed at swaying organizations running VMware to switch to Hyper-V.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016
Windows 10 users moving from version 1511 to version 1607, dubbed the "anniversary update," may find applications installed on their systems that they'd previously removed.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016
Microsoft and Citrix this week laid out the terms of their partnership, including their plan to combine Microsoft's Azure datacenter solutions with Citrix's virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016
Some of Cisco's firewall appliance products have been targeted by purportedly leaked U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools, the networking giant said last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2016
The new SharePoint Framework, which Microsoft unveiled in May with the general availability release of SharePoint Server 2016, is now available to test as a "developer preview."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 18, 2016
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has taken Microsoft to task over potential privacy issues in Windows 10, saying that the company "blatantly disregards user choice and privacy."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 18, 2016
Microsoft this week shared more details about its new Delivery Optimization update service for Windows 10 clients.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 16, 2016
Starting this fall, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs will switch to a monthly update model that's similar to what Microsoft has implemented with Windows 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 16, 2016
Microsoft recently took some pains to explain its decision last month to change the delivery model for its upcoming Azure Stack product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 15, 2016
Microsoft is in the process of replacing its 2-year-old Azure RemoteApp service for a new solution that it is currently developing with strategic partner Citrix called XenApp "express."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 12, 2016
Microsoft this week said that it is reinstating its original support policies for Intel "Skylake"-based Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 systems, adding several years to their respective support lifecycles.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 12, 2016
Microsoft has detailed a new development in its efforts to protect data privacy in the cloud, one focused on the exchange of encrypted data between users.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 11, 2016