Microsoft has quietly released a premium, ad-free version of its Outlook.com e-mail service, testing consumers' appetite to pay for personal e-mail services that they've used at no cost for decades.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 28, 2017
Microsoft's SharePoint Framework is now ready for commercial use, having reached the "general availability" milestone on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2017
Microsoft this week announced some new SharePoint features and capabilities, both immediately available and still to come later this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 23, 2017
As part of a multi-year cloud partnership with Microsoft, Veritas Software on Wednesday announced it is migrating its Enterprise Vault.cloud (EV.cloud ) data archiving service from its own managed datacenters to Microsoft Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 22, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday announced new support for Kubernetes, a Google-fostered open source technology, in its Azure Container Service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2017
As they each expand their cloud footprints in Europe, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are touting their support for the European Union's newly revamped data privacy regulations.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 17, 2017
A recent presentation by SmartDeploy, a Seattle-based firm that makes Windows and application deployment solutions, included an explanation from a Microsoft product manager of how imaging works under its Volume Licensing program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 16, 2017
Microsoft has unveiled a new Secure Score feature for Office 365, enabling organizations to score their Office 365 security postures based on what settings are applied to their accounts, data and devices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 13, 2017
To coincide with this week's RSA security conference, Microsoft has put Windows 10's security improvements in the spotlight.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 13, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the addition of datacenter and networking giant Cisco to its list of approved hardware partners for the upcoming Azure Stack solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 10, 2017
Microsoft is readying a new console for its Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) service that aims to simplify tasks related to identity management and mobile device management (MDM).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 10, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new program called "Microsoft Azure IP Advantage" that aims to protect organizations using Azure services against against intellectual property (IP) claims.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 08, 2017
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still the runaway leader of the public cloud market, recent gains by other vendors aside, according to a pair of recent studies.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 07, 2017
Windows systems are vulnerable to zero-day attacks that exploit the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, according to an advisory issued last week by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 06, 2017
This week marked the rollout of several new Azure Active Directory (AD) capabilities designed to increase security and collaboration.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 02, 2017