During Microsoft's third-quarter earnings call last week, CEO Satya Nadella touted Office 365 as a new cornerstone of Microsoft's embrace-and-extend philosophy that once made Windows the standard for business computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 25, 2016
Microsoft's transition to the cloud hit some speed bumps the third quarter of its fiscal 2016.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 21, 2016
With prospects low for a revival in the PC market, Intel this week announced a significant restructuring that will reduce its workforce by 11 percent, or 12,000 employees.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 20, 2016
Microsoft this week added support for Mac and Web clients to its consumer Skype bot client previews.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Container Service became commercially available on Tuesday, alongside the launch of a new open source project from partner Mesosphere.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2016
Microsoft recently issued the final release candidate (RC) of its upcoming SQL Server 2016 product.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 19, 2016
Microsoft recently launched a preview of a new Skype capability that would enable voice and video calls via the Edge browser without the use of browser plug-ins.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 18, 2016
Enterprise adoption of Microsoft's Office 365 suite is very high, according to a recent poll of IT decision makers by market researcher Gartner Inc.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2016
Microsoft plans to roll out several enhancements to its OneDrive for Business product over the next couple of months.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2016
Exchange Server 2007 will pass its "extended support" period in less than a year, Microsoft warned this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a major, cloud-oriented streamlining of the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) competencies that it uses to identify and validate the expertise of its partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 13, 2016
The team behind Microsoft Edge recently explained how the browser works with Windows 10's "Windows Hello" feature to let users access Web sites without passwords.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2016
Tuesday marked the end of SQL Server 2005's "extended support" phase, meaning Microsoft's 10-year-old database server will no longer get patch support from the company.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2016
Microsoft's "Project Madeira," a new, cloud-based business application that's built on the company's Dynamics NAV platform, is now available as a public preview for U.S. organizations.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 12, 2016
A new Windows 10 resource page from Microsoft gives some insight on current capabilities of the operating system, as well as features currently in development.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2016
Microsoft has upgraded build 1511 of Windows 10, which was originally issued to testers last November, from a "current branch" (CB) release to a "current branch for business" (CBB) release.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2016
Microsoft recently unveiled Power BI Embedded in a bid to draw developers, primarily independent software vendors (ISVs), to its cloud-based business intelligence tool.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 08, 2016
Microsoft this week announced enhancements to its Office suite that leverage some recently acquired technologies aimed at improving users' personal time management.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2016
Microsoft's Cloud App Security service became generally available on Wednesday, enabling customers to track the use of Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) applications within their organization.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday released a new Windows 10 test build that includes previews of features coming in this summer's Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" (code-named "Redstone 1").
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2016