An industry group is urging Microsoft to release its proprietary Windows 7 code as free software.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2020
Microsoft warned users that their customer support case information may have been exposed at the end of 2019 due to security misconfigurations in an Azure-hosted database.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2020
For organizations that still haven't transitioned away from Windows Server 2008, which lost support on Jan. 14, Microsoft is extending some help.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 20, 2020
Microsoft is aiming to become "carbon negative" by 2030 thanks to a companywide carbon-reduction initiative it announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2020
The first "stable" release of Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser is now commercially available, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2020
The 10-year-old Windows 7 operating system fell out of support this week on Jan. 14, 2020, marking the end of an era.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 14, 2020
According to a Friday media report, the Microsoft Store for Business, formerly known as the "Windows Store for Business," is on the software deprecation chopping block.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 13, 2020
Microsoft announced some upcoming Office 365 enhancements, many designed to support so-called "firstline workers," at the NRF 2020 event for retailers this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 10, 2020
Office 365 tenancies with access to early update releases are beginning to receive an "early preview" of Microsoft's Fluid Framework for Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 09, 2020
Businesses running Microsoft's business software are facing all sorts of end-of-support deadlines at the start of 2020.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 08, 2020
Employment is shifting away from typical IT maintenance support jobs as organizations look more toward carrying out so-called "digital transformation" objectives.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2020
Organizations wanting to participate in a private preview of Project Cortex can now check their qualifications against Microsoft's rather strict participation criteria.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2020
Microsoft CSP MessageOps recently tried to answer some of the most pressing questions facing organizations concerning the Windows 7 Extended Security Updates program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 03, 2020
Microsoft is set to launch its new Chromium-based Edge browser, based on the Google-backed Chromium Projects technology, on Jan. 15, 2020.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2019
Microsoft recently detailed a few improvements coming to the next release of Windows Server, including faster PowerShell performance and a smaller container size.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 13, 2019
A limited preview of the Microsoft Teams app is now available for select Linux desktop operating systems, making it "the first Microsoft 365 app" to run on Linux.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2019
A recent Microsoft Message Center post indicates that "classic" blogs used by SharePoint Online subscribers are on their way toward "retirement."
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 09, 2019
The Excel, OneNote PowerPoint and Word applications for the Windows 10 Mobile operating system will lose support on Jan. 12, 2021, Microsoft announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 06, 2019
The rollout of Update 1910 for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, formerly known as "System Center Configuration Manager" (SCCM), has begun.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 04, 2019
Microsoft recently revealed its plan to disable Office 365's Delve Blogs feature starting in December.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 25, 2019