The Marsden Group, a Microsoft partner that helps with industrial automation and safety processes, has been acquired by Microsoft for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 17, 2021
Microsoft has released a "preliminary root cause analysis" for Monday's Azure AD issue that took out multiple Microsoft 365 and cloud applications for at least two hours.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 16, 2021
Organizations that need more time to test Microsoft Edge browser updates will be able to switch to a longer feature release cycle this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 15, 2021
The handful of Exchange Server zero-day flaws Microsoft announced earlier this month has snowballed into a much broader problem.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2021
A new External Identities capability in the Azure Active Directory service became generally available (GA) this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2021
The best managed workplace services providers are automating the heck out of their service desks, Gartner analysts argue in a recent Magic Quadrant report.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 11, 2021
Today's cloud landscape leans heavily in the direction of multicloud and hybrid, with Amazon Web Services holding an ever-shrinking lead over Microsoft Azure.
- By David Ramel
- March 11, 2021
In public preview since last July, Microsoft Universal Print, a multitenant Azure-based print service, became generally available this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2021
Microsoft released the preview of Window Server 2022 at Ignite, spotlighting improvements to security, portal integration and container support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2021
The Ignite virtual conference put much of the spotlight on Microsoft Mesh, a new Azure-based platform for building "cross-platform mixed reality apps."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2021
Microsoft recently announced an upcoming increase in the Azure Active Directory B2C service-level agreement (SLA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2021
Microsoft is adding three more industry-specific cloud programs to its offerings with help from its partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2021
Microsoft reseller partners are now beginning to sell solid-state drive (SSD) replacement kits for Surface Pro 7+ PCs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 23, 2021
Starting in July, standalone subscriptions to Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Enterprise Mobility plus Security (EMS) will each cost $2 more.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2021
The next long-term servicing channel (LTSC) releases of Windows 10 and Microsoft Office, both expected in the second half of 2021, will each have five fewer years of support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 19, 2021
Microsoft is readying the first Windows 10 feature update of 2021, dubbed 21H1, for release sometime in the first half of this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 18, 2021
Microsoft is rebranding its existing Teams product next month, but its messaging has caused confusion over whether it's launching an altogether new product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 17, 2021
A partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will bring Microsoft Azure to the International Space Station (ISS) by way of HPE's Spaceborne Computer-2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 16, 2021
Two new Microsoft Teams applications built using the Dataverse for Teams service are now available for download from the Teams store.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 12, 2021
Cloud spending has been on a tear, due in no small part to cloud giants Microsoft and AWS increasing their investments in respective partner programs.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 10, 2021