Microsoft's plans to downsize its mobile business will result in significant job cuts and a near $1 billion writedown, the company announced Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 25, 2016
Microsoft's new method for upgrading users to Windows 10 has been met with largely negative reviews.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 23, 2016
The latest update to Dynamics CRM, dubbed the "Spring 2016 wave," is now generally available, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 23, 2016
Microsoft's beleaguered smartphone platform continues to lose ground in global market share standings.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 23, 2016
Microsoft recently warned organizations that Exchange Server 2016, which was commercially released in October, isn't yet supported on Windows Server 2016.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 23, 2016
Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) product, currently in technical preview, received its latest update this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 19, 2016
In one of their most extensive collaboration efforts, Microsoft and SAP this week announced a broad partnership to integrate Azure and Office 365 with the SAP HANA data platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 18, 2016
The first of Microsoft's new "convenience rollup" method for delivering OS updates rolled out on Tuesday for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 17, 2016
Windows 10's new Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service, which Microsoft unveiled in March, is now available to a larger audience to try out.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 16, 2016
Organizations using Microsoft's Operations Management Suite (OMS) can now preview a new capability enabling them to monitor Office 365 accounts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 16, 2016
Organizations moving from the "classic" Azure management portal to the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) portal can now take advantage of newly released resource materials from Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 16, 2016
Microsoft recently put the spotlight on Shielded Virtual Machines (VMs), its datacenter security technology aimed at protecting workloads in public and private datacenters from "malicious administrators."
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 13, 2016
A new collaboration tool for Office 365 that Microsoft first unveiled at the 2015 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is getting a wider audience.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 12, 2016
Microsoft's emerging Server Management Tools offering, currently available at the preview stage, now includes Windows Update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2016
Microsoft plans to take down the Sunrise calendar applications for Android and iOS devices on Aug. 31.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 11, 2016
Microsoft this week announced that its upcoming Nano Server deployment option can't be managed using Group Policy controls.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 11, 2016
Office Online Server, Microsoft's successor to Office Web Apps Server 2013, became available to MSDN subscribers on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 09, 2016
Microsoft will terminate Windows 10's free upgrade offer on July 29, one year after its initial launch, the company confirmed this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 06, 2016
Despite rivals Microsoft and Google enjoying growth rates well over 100 percent, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) maintains a solid lead in the cloud infrastructure market with 31 percent worldwide market share.
- By David Ramel
- May 06, 2016
The Windows 10 Pro edition imposes limits to the ability of IT pros to control Windows Store access, according to a report this week by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2016