Windows 9, code-named "Threshold," will include improvements for those who primarily use the traditional desktop environment for Win32-based applications, according to longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 01, 2014
Microsoft recently rolled out its Azure RemoteApp client for Windows RT devices, giving Windows RT users a way to access apps that they can't install on their machines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2014
Microsoft on Thursday issued an explanation for two separate Office 365 service outages that occurred this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2014
Google this week rolled out Google Drive for Work as part of a number of enterprise-grade enhancements to its cloud services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2014
Microsoft is preparing to unveil Windows 8.1 Update 2 and an early version of Windows 9 at July's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), according to online leaker "WZor."
- By Gladys Rama
- June 27, 2014
With cloud computing at the center of recent high-profile security breaches and the NSA spying revelations, providers like Microsoft have been feeling pressure from customers to lock down their data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 25, 2014
Users of Microsoft's Exchange Online service in the North America region were hit by a service outage on Tuesday that reportedly lasted for about 10 hours.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2014
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery, previously called Hyper-V Recovery Manager, is now available in preview, Microsoft said on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 20, 2014
"Azure ML," Microsoft's new machine learning service based on its Azure cloud platform, will launch as a preview next month, the company said Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for its SQL Server 2012 product has been released to manufacturers (RTM).
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2014
A new version of Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AD) Application Proxy service is now available as a preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2014
For individual Windows 8.1 users, Tuesday marked the installation deadline for Windows 8.1 Update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2014
Setting up and managing Office 365 for customers doesn't have to be a manual, poorly documented job for partners. As the market for the SaaS product booms, so does the ecosystem of powerful tools from third parties.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2014
The public folder limit for organizations using Exchange Online or Exchange 2013 will increase tenfold sometime next month, Microsoft said Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 09, 2014
Microsoft's Azure cloud services are now generally available for commercial use in southern Brazil, the company announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 06, 2014