Microsoft's top cloud executive this week signaled a shift away from the tradition of intense price-based competition between Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) and Azure.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 14, 2016
Microsoft is opening up its technical team to questions from users of its new Upgrade Analytics solution, currently in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 14, 2016
Microsoft's Azure portal management tool is getting new Azure Active Directory features, which the company unveiled on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 13, 2016
Microsoft scored a major win against its CRM competitors on Monday, with the news that HP Inc. will switch thousands of its employees to Dynamics CRM Online.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 12, 2016
Users of Office 365 groups will now be able to share communications resources with others outside their organization, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 09, 2016
Two new products bearing Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AD) brand are expected to exit the preview stage next week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 08, 2016
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