An "accidentally released" Windows 10 build appears to offer an interesting clue into Microsoft's plans for the operating system's Start menu.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 25, 2019
Microsoft's "Office on the Web" product (also referred to as "Office Online") will hereafter be called just "Office."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 25, 2019
Research outfit OpenAI and Microsoft have inked a $1 billion deal around artificial general intelligence (AGI), considered the holy grail of AI research.
- By Michael Desmond
- July 23, 2019
The Office 365 app installation experience should get a little easier for end users starting as early as next month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2019
The upcoming Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is getting a few feature tweaks aimed at enterprise and business users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 18, 2019
Microsoft put the spotlight on its strategic collaborations during Day 3 of Inspire, chief among them a "multiyear" alliance with AT&T.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2019
Microsoft alerted users that those not presently using the most current version of Windows 10 will soon be prompted to make the switch.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2019
Organizations managing complex applications in Azure can begin test-driving a new capability that helps alleviate network-latency concerns.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 16, 2019
Microsoft talked up its Teams collaboration service as part of the run-up to Inspire, including its more than "13 million daily active users."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2019
Microsoft now plans to support the use of Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019, even for organizations using it in VDI scenarios.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 10, 2019
SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 will no longer receive security patches from Microsoft as of Tuesday, July 9.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2019
Organizations can now begin to use to Desktop Analytics to measure the compatibility of their applications with Windows 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2019
Some "pro" features of Microsoft's Kaizala mobile chat application will be folded into Microsoft Teams over the next 12 to 18 months.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 02, 2019
As early as July 9, organizations with existing Office 365 Business or Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions could have the Teams app automatically activated for them.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2019
Organizations narrowly favor Microsoft Azure over rivals Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform for its "compatibility with existing services."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2019
The Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage service has a few new enhancements coming to it, including more storage options and a secure "Personal Vault" feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 26, 2019
The database management system (DBMS) market's growth is increasingly being driven by cloud services, not by more traditional on-premises systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup service can now support SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2019
Microsoft has released Edge previews for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1, which previously didn't support Microsoft browsers beyond Internet Explorer 11.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 21, 2019
With a new service preview, Microsoft is now letting organizations use a private Internet connection to access Azure virtual machines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2019