Windows 10 has come under fire in France over concerns that the operating system doesn't comply with the country's data privacy laws.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 22, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Security Center, designed to protect virtual machines and other elements that a tenant may use when tapping Azure datacenter infrastructure, reached general availability on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 21, 2016
Microsoft has launched a preview release of its new "Bookings" service for Office 365 aimed at small businesses.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 21, 2016
Boosts in cloud revenue helped Microsoft beat analyst estimates on earnings per share and revenues for its fourth quarter earnings reported Tuesday, leading to a share-price increase of more than 3% in after-hours trading.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 19, 2016
Microsoft recently launched a preview of its new Office 365 Network, an online community portal for exchanges between "IT pros, technical experts, product enthusiasts and Office 365 customers."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2016
Microsoft on Monday launched a new video sharing portal called "Microsoft Stream" aimed at organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2016
Microsoft isn't likely to hit its stated goal of putting Windows 10 on 1 billion devices by its fiscal 2018, company executives admitted recently.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 18, 2016
A ruling issued against Microsoft two years ago ordering the company to turn over the contents of e-mails stored in an offshore datacenter has been overturned by a federal appeals court.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 14, 2016
Microsoft unveiled an "alpha" version of a new Skype for Linux client for consumer users on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2016
Even though it lost Microsoft's product update support one year ago, Windows Server 2003 is still in use by nearly one-fifth of organizations, according to a recent Spiceworks report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2016
The pay-as-you-go revolution is coming to Microsoft's crown jewels -- the Windows client operating system and its golden child, the Surface device line.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 13, 2016
Microsoft is testing out a new training and certification program aimed at professionals who want to deepen their knowledge of emerging technologies like Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT).
- By Gladys Rama
- July 13, 2016
BitTitan, Dropbox, StorageCraft, Independence IT, Infinite Ops and SkyKick are among third-party vendors updating their cloud-related tools in Toronto.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 13, 2016
The next-gen versions of Microsoft's Windows Server and System Center products will reach general availability at the Ignite conference this September, the company said Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2016
The new Azure Information Protection solution, which extends the security capabilities of Microsoft's Azure Rights Management Service (RMS), is now available as a public preview release.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2016
Initially expected to be released by the end of this year, Azure Stack will instead become generally available in mid-2017, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2016
Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft's elastic cloud computing platform, became generally available on Tuesday.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 12, 2016
A new European Union-United States Privacy Shield agreement, announced by the European Commission on July 12, has the support of Microsoft's top government executive in the EU.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2016
Microsoft and General Electric (GE) on Monday unveiled a strategic partnership that will drive connections between GE's year-old Predix cloud platform for collecting and analyzing industrial data and Microsoft's various enterprise cloud applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2016
Metalogix, a top Microsoft ISV, is expanding its partner program in a bid to help systems integrators (SIs) move their on-premises SharePoint customers to Office 365.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 11, 2016