SMBs are ready for Microsoft to let DaaS out of the box now, but Microsoft licensing policies are holding the market back, argues VDI consultant Michael Fraser.
- By Michael Fraser
- March 10, 2014
Microsoft recently made available a new Windows Enterprise edition "standalone upgrade" offering that does not require Software Assurance (SA) coverage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2014
Windows 8.1 Update 1 is now at the final stages of development, according to several reports on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2014
For users who have still not moved off Windows XP, Microsoft plans to offer Laplink's PCmover Express tool for free.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2014
The next releases of Microsoft's Exchange Server and SharePoint Server products will not arrive until next year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2014
Microsoft will release its OneDrive for Business product, formerly named SkyDrive Pro, as a standalone service in April.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2014
Microsoft is using this week's SharePoint Conference to make some broader announcements, including two new social networking technologies for Office 365 and SharePoint Online that are planned for release sometime this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2014
Partners, Microsoft campaigns and upgrade cycles got most users off Windows XP. The holdouts appear resigned to riding the OS into the abyss of non-security support.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 01, 2014
Microsoft on Thursday gave a few details about OneDrive for Business, the company's business-grade document storage service based on SharePoint Online technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 27, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that Service Pack 1 for Office Office 2013, Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013 is now available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2014
Microsoft on Sunday confirmed that Windows 8.1 Update 1 will be released sometime this spring, alongside an update to Windows Server 2012 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2014
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