In an intellectual property deal signed this week, low-cost device maker Xiaomi will allow Microsoft to put Office and Skype on its Android-based smartphones and tablets.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 02, 2016
Microsoft's next-generation database platform, SQL Server 2016, became generally available on Wednesday as scheduled.
- By Chris Paoli
- June 01, 2016
Companies with Enterprise Agreements (EAs) can now use prebuilt images to move their existing SQL Server licenses to Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2016
Microsoft's upcoming Windows 10 "anniversary update" release will include a new security feature called "limited periodic scanning."
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 31, 2016
Microsoft's Remote Desktop application for Windows 10 clients will reach general availability in "the next couple of weeks," the company said recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 31, 2016
Longtime technology partners Microsoft and Citrix this week unveiled their most extensive collaboration in 25 years.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 27, 2016
New Office 365 updates arriving this month will include enhancements to SharePoint, OneDrive and Office Online, Microsoft's browser-based versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and OneNote applications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 27, 2016
Kansas City-based Valorem Consulting this week announced its acquisition of Microsoft technology partner IdentityMine.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 26, 2016
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