Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Vice President Scott Guthrie outlined several new Windows Azure management improvements in a blog post last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2014
Four months after acquiring Idera's SharePoint business, Metalogix this week released its first backup and recovery tool designed solely for protecting SharePoint environments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 21, 2014
Microsoft's Office 365 Message Encryption service, unveiled in November, is now commercially available, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 20, 2014
Most Windows XP Embedded versions will live on for a few more years, even as the Windows XP desktop OS loses "extended" support on April 8, Microsoft clarified this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 19, 2014
Microsoft on Wednesday officially transitioned its SkyDrive cloud storage to the new OneDrive, though Windows 8 users will have to wait a bit longer to access the rebranded service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 19, 2014
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2012 will arrive "later this year," Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 2014
Google and VMware this week announced a VDI deal in which Google's Chromebook laptops will be enabled to run Windows desktops and Windows apps.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 2014
Microsoft this week added free multifactor authentication support to its standalone Office 365 plans, as well as to the Midsize Business, Enterprise, Academic and Nonprofit Office 365 plans.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 12, 2014
Dell's PowerEdge Servers, its SAS Host Bus Adapters, as well as its PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220 storage enclosures now support Windows Server 2012 R2's "storage spaces" feature, Dell said Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 11, 2014
Microsoft's faster release cycle for its Windows operating system should be a signal for organizations that they can no longer rely on past upgrade strategies, according to research firm Gartner.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 10, 2014
The first update to Microsoft's Windows 8.1 is now expected to arrive in April instead of March, as previously reported.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 05, 2014
Microsoft is on a "mobile first/cloud first" trajectory, said newly appointed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a speech Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 05, 2014
Microsoft is planning to add an "enterprise mode" feature to its Internet Explorer 11 browser, according to a report Monday from ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 03, 2014
Microsoft's Windows Azure Cloud Services and Windows Server 2012 R2 products are getting several high-performance computing (HPC) enhancements this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 31, 2014
In response to customer concerns over government surveillance programs, Microsoft is planning to give cloud customers outside the United States the option to store their data in offshore datacenters.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 30, 2014