Organizations that need to license Microsoft software for just part of a year can now take advantage of new short-term options in Microsoft's Products and Services Agreement (MPSA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 11, 2016
The spotlight was on SQL Server 2016 at Thursday's Data Driven conference, where Microsoft gave its case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own.
- By David Ramel
- March 10, 2016
Microsoft is readying some new features in its Skype for Business product, including a new "Cloud Connector" edition and "Project Rigel," which will shift gears for Microsoft's Skype for Business hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 10, 2016
The transition away from traditional slate tablets like the iPad and toward "detachable" tablets like the Surface will soon translate into a significant market win for Microsoft.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 09, 2016
Microsoft's Dynamics AX product is now a full-fledged Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering on the Azure public cloud.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 09, 2016
The second of Microsoft's two planned Windows 10 updates this year has been delayed until the spring of 2017, according to media reports.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 07, 2016
Microsoft on Monday issued a release candidate (RC0) of its upcoming SQL Server 2016 database system, as well as announced its plans to enable SQL Server to run on Linux.
- By David Ramel
- March 07, 2016
The worldwide commercial rollout of Microsoft's Office 365 Admin Center management console will begin in a few weeks, Microsoft said on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2016
Microsoft's newest disaster recovery and data recovery solution reached general availability this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2016
The new Azure Active Directory Identity Protection service, which aims to ward off compromised user accounts and configuration vulnerabilities, was released as a preview on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2016
The next round of updates to Microsoft's Dynamics CRM product, dubbed the "spring wave," will arrive in the second quarter, the company said on Wednesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 02, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off a new anti-malware solution for Windows 10 called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 01, 2016
Microsoft's upcoming SharePoint Server 2016 product could hit the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) milestone on March 14, according to a report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 29, 2016
Microsoft's chief legal officer told Congress on Thursday that Microsoft "wholeheartedly" backs Apple's refusal to cooperate with government demands to decrypt an iPhone used by the perpetrators of last December's mass shooting attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 26, 2016
Microsoft added a number of security enhancements to its cloud offerings this week, including Azure Security Center improvements, a coming preview of Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, and a preview of a new Operations Management Suite (OMS) dashboard.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Xamarin, a provider of cross-platform developer tools for building mobile apps.
- By David Ramel
- February 24, 2016
Data protection software vendor Veeam on Wednesday named Kevin Rooney its new vice president of North American channel sales.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 24, 2016
Dell's planned acquisition of VMware parent company EMC has just cleared a major hurdle.
- By Keith Ward
- February 23, 2016
Since Microsoft announced last month that it was truncating its software lifecycle support policies for Intel Skylake-based client PCs running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, there have been questions about what the changes mean for other systems running those processors -- including Windows Embedded 7/8.1 devices or Windows Server 2012 servers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 23, 2016
Organizations with "hybrid" Exchange 2013 deployments risk service interruptions if their servers are not updated in time for the April release of a security certificate renewal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2016