Microsoft this week described release milestones for several of its emerging cloud data management products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 03, 2020
Salesforce has announced its intent to acquire Slack for an estimated $27.7 billion in a deal that would fuse two of Microsoft's biggest rivals in the business applications space.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2020
Microsoft is preparing to roll out a more stripped-down Microsoft 365 Admin Center interface designed for "very small businesses."
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2020
The ability to show user names in Microsoft 365 Productivity Score has been removed in response to concerns that it may be used to snoop on employees.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2020
Microsoft is readying a bunch of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online improvements, including a new "My Feed" Web Part and more Microsoft Graph connectors.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 30, 2020
Windows Autopilot, Microsoft's PC self-provisioning program, is now being tested for use with the company's mixed-reality headset, the HoloLens 2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 20, 2020
There are indications that Microsoft is mulling charging customers for software that uses its application programming interfaces.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 20, 2020
Microsoft has expanded its Azure Hybrid Benefit licensing program to include Linux servers, particularly Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise servers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2020
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams, a data platform that works with its Power Platform suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2020
Microsoft this week marked the second year of its Extended Security Update (ESU) licensing program for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 13, 2020
Two months after acquiring Binary Tree, Quest Software is again padding its Office 365 migration portfolio with the acquisition of partner Quadrotech.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2020
Microsoft said this week that it is integrating its Project for the Web and Project Roadmap applications with its Teams chat and collaboration application.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 06, 2020
Microsoft is planning several enhancements related to the ability for users to gather usage analytics reports on searches across SharePoint Online sites.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 05, 2020
As part of its Azure for Operators program, Microsoft this week joined a nonprofit standards association that focuses on SDN technologies used by enterprises and service providers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 27, 2020
A new capability that lets Microsoft Teams users access information from the Salesforce.com customer relationship management (CRM) platform debuted this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 22, 2020
Microsoft recently unveiled its new Azure Modular Datacenters, boxcar-like structures that can deliver compute and storage capabilities anywhere on earth.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 21, 2020
The October 2020 updates of Windows 10 and Windows Server, also known as version 20H2, were released by Microsoft on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 20, 2020
Security solutions firm Check Point this week gave Microsoft the dubious distinction of being the "most imitated" company used for phishing attacks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 19, 2020
Global tech spending has taken a hit in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but analysts expect it to rebound next year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2020
Microsoft talked up emerging Microsoft 365 capabilities as "perpetual-license" versions of Office -- namely Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac -- lost support this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2020