Besides unveiling the final release versions of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016, Microsoft says it plans to use its upcoming Ignite conference to showcase the new SharePoint Framework that was announced May with the general availability of SharePoint 2016.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 22, 2016
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