Microsoft Viva, Microsoft's new "employee experience platform" that it unveiled in February, is set to reach several milestones in the coming months.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2021
Microsoft this week announced several improvements coming to the Microsoft Teams collaboration platform, which it described as "the new front end for a new world of work."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 16, 2021
The two-day Microsoft Inspire partner conference, online for the second year in a row, kicked off Wednesday with, unsurprisingly, myriad partner announcements.
- By John K. Waters
- July 14, 2021
Hitting general availability on Aug. 2 "to organizations of all sizes" is Windows 365, a new Microsoft virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service for business users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2021
In a move aimed at strengthening its cyberthreat protection capabilities, Microsoft this week announced it it is acquiring San Francisco-based RiskIQ.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2021
Azure Lighthouse has a new feature in preview that potentially adds to the trust relationship between MSPs and their customers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2021
Microsoft this week announced the general availability of the Salesforce for Microsoft Teams app, which can be used by joint licensees to see Salesforce CRM records within Teams.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2021
Microsoft has introduced a new capability to give organizations a way to ensure their compliance with data privacy regulations, particularly the GDPR.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 08, 2021
About 60 MSPs and almost 1,500 of their business customers may have been affected by a ransomware attack targeting Kaseya's VSA management solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 07, 2021
The first Windows 11 preview build was released this week, along with some tips from Microsoft for businesses planning to move to the new desktop OS.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2021
Microsoft will retire Cloudyn, its cloud cost management product, at the end of this month in favor of the Azure Cost Management and Billing solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2021
Microsoft last week disclosed new Azure services, bolstered by partners, to support enterprises tapping private 5G networks and edge computing services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2021
Printer OEMs such as Brother, Canon and Lexmark are bringing products with native support for the Microsoft 365 Universal Print solution to market.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2021
With office environments becoming increasingly "hybrid" post-pandemic, Microsoft is readying multiple improvements to its software to facilitate remote meetings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 21, 2021
To better equip offices for meetings in the new post-lockdown, hybrid-work era, Microsoft is introducing increased functionality for Microsoft Teams hardware.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2021
Ahead of a June 24 Microsoft presentation about the future of Windows, a pre-release build of Microsoft's next client operating system was leaked this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2021
Microsoft recently described new voice capabilities for Outlook Mobile users on the iOS platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 14, 2021
A "lightweight version" of the Visio Web app will be available for free t to Office 365 and Microsoft 365 business subscribers starting July.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2021
Microsoft has historically kept mum about its emergency security response program. That changed this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2021
Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop service is now called Azure Virtual Desktop, to indicate that it is becoming "a flexible cloud VDI platform for nearly any use case."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2021