After a four-month preview, Quest on Tuesday released its new cloud-based platform for managing Office 365 applications and Azure Active Directory implementations. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 11, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's launch hardware partners will begin taking orders Monday for Azure Stack, a parallel version of the software that powers the Microsoft Azure public cloud and that customers will run in their own datacenters for hybrid cloud scenarios.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- July 10, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has expanded its FastTrack program again, this time to cover customer migrations to the Azure cloud platform.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 07, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week took the wraps off the Windows AutoPilot service, which is designed to help end users easily provision new Windows 10 PCs.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 03, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Accenture, the world's largest independent global IT consulting and systems integration firm, is also set to become the world's largest adopter of Windows 10.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- July 03, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Security researchers investigating the recent "Petya" ransomware outbreak have identified its cause to be "wiper" malware that was possibly unleashed by a state actor.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 30, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Thursday said it plans to acquire Acton, Mass.-based Cloudyn, which provides public cloud monitoring services for MSPs, cloud solution providers and enterprises.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 29, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The upcoming Windows 10 "Fall Creators Update" will include the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), which had been slated for the chopping block not long ago.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 29, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Just over a month after the WannaCry/WannaCrypt outbreak, a new ransomware attack has reportedly crippled Windows systems worldwide, according to an article by Reuters on Tuesday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 28, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A recent survey by Adaptiva indicates that organizations are generally receptive to migrating their environments to Windows 10.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 27, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently delivered a mixed bag of news to organizations either using or considering the use of its Teams chat service. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- June 26, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Open source Azure tools were on center stage Wednesday, as Microsoft and some of its open source partners conducted an online presentation aimed at courting developers. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 23, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In an apparent response to recent allegations made by security software vendor Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft on Tuesday detailed its approach to third-party anti-virus software, particularly in Windows 10.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 20, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has pulled the plug on its long-running Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool, the company recently announced. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 19, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Azure Active Directory service now supports single sign-on access to legacy Web applications with this week's release of PingAccess with Azure AD.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 16, 2017