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
Microsoft has joined eight other companies in creating a new Internet of Things (IoT) consortium called the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 19, 2016
Seven months after being relegated to a niche business by Microsoft, Windows Phone continues to go gentle into that good night.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 18, 2016
Microsoft newfound embrace of open source took another step this week with the addition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) images in the Azure Marketplace.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 18, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a number of improvements to its Office 365 product, including the expansion of some service limitations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 18, 2016
Microsoft this week added another device to its Windows 10 smartphone lineup -- the enterprise-focused Lumia 650.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 16, 2016
Microsoft's Exchange Server Deployment Assistant tool is now equipped to configure hybrid deployments using Exchange Server 2016.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 16, 2016
On the heels of the long-awaited debut of the Azure Stack technical preview, Microsoft has released additional features for the solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 16, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday announced improvements to the user profile feature in Delve, the discovery and social networking solution that's included in Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 16, 2016
Microsoft is changing how it describes Office 365 client updates.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 10, 2016
Microsoft this week rolled out a preview of a new set of management tools for "headless" Windows Servers, including Windows Server 2016's Nano Server.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 10, 2016
Starting Tuesday, Microsoft is giving administrators more visibility into how and when it updates Windows 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 09, 2016
Most organizations used the on-premises SharePoint Server in 2015 instead of SharePoint Online, which is part of Microsoft's Office 365 cloud suite, according to an industry study.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 09, 2016