In keeping with Microsoft's plan to rebrand most of its Office 365 products, the company announced this week that Office 365 Groups will eventually become "Microsoft 365 Groups."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2020
As offices shift to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft is giving organizations the ability to gain insights into the productivity of their remote employees.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2020
Employees of Microsoft's brick-and-mortar consumer stores are still supporting customers despite the stores themselves being closed since mid-March as a coronavirus precaution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2020
Microsoft talked up its emerging "knowledge network" technology for Microsoft 365, dubbed Project Cortex, in a Q&A this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2020
Microsoft unveiled a couple of notable capabilities in its latest Windows 10 test build, including a new feature to give users easier access to Linux distro files.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2020
Users of Microsoft 365 Business will be able to access Azure Active Directory Premium P1 licensing free of charge, Microsoft said this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2020
Microsoft is promising to enable new edge computing scenarios for partners and developers with Azure Edge Zones, which became available as a preview this week.
- By David Ramel
- April 02, 2020
In response to concerns about the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Microsoft is transitioning all of its big conferences in 2020 to be online only.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2020
Microsoft is readying two new consumer editions of Microsoft 365 for release in April.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2020
On April 21, Microsoft plans to update many of its Office 365-branded products to bear the "Microsoft 365" brand, the company announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2020
Microsoft recently shared some statistics on the growth of its services since widespread "shelter-in-place" mandates due to novel coronavirus concerns have taken effect.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 30, 2020
Microsoft has acquired Affirmed Networks, buttressing its software-defined networking services just as mobile operators start rolling out 5G wireless technologies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2020
Multiple SharePoint-related events this year have been cancelled, postponed or made virtual as a consequence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 25, 2020
As businesses transition their employees to remote work en masse, Microsoft is adjusting the availability of some Microsoft 365 features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 24, 2020
Microsoft recently described how its Azure, AI and machine learning offerings are being used by researchers responding to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2020
Microsoft recently described some devices that hardware partners have developed for the Microsoft Teams collaboration platform, which turned 3 years old this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2020
Microsoft has extended the service lifetimes of certain editions of Windows 10 version 1709 due to "the public health situation" caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2020
Microsoft recently announced several enhancements to the Microsoft Teams collaboration platform that will be "available later this year."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2020
Though it missed its target date by nearly three years, Microsoft has finally reached its goal of putting Windows 10 on over 1 billion "monthly active devices."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 17, 2020
Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates has stepped down from his position in Microsoft's board of directors, the company announced on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 16, 2020