Azure Data Lake, Microsoft's service for "Big Data" massively parallel types of analyses, is now production-ready, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2016
Microsoft took its ongoing courtship of open source a step further on Wednesday, announcing that it has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2016
Microsoft announced the first service pack (SP1) of its SQL Server 2016 product on Wednesday at its Connect() developer conference, taking place this week in New York.
- By Chris Paoli
- November 16, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday took steps toward its goal to "democratize" artificial intelligence, partnering with nonprofit research organization OpenAI and announcing several Azure milestones aimed at helping developers tap into the platform's new compute capabilities.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2016
Microsoft's Windows Azure Pack solution is "far from being dead," Microsoft said this week after updating the product's lifecycle support information.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2016
Microsoft recently detailed its update model for Windows Server 2016, which became generally available in mid-October.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory portal for administrators, currently in preview, now includes new auditing features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2016
In a sign that the "software-defined" movement has gone mainstream, Microsoft is touting its latest server OS as the perfect platform for running a software-defined datacenter (SDDC).
- By David Ramel
- November 09, 2016
Microsoft is delivering on some its earlier SharePoint Server 2016 promises with the release of Feature Pack 1 on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Container Service (ACS) Engine is now an open source project hosted on the GitHub repository, Microsoft announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2016
Microsoft plans to shutter its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) solution, though the process will take a little longer than originally expected.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2016
A new Microsoft technology dubbed "Unified Update Platform" promises to cut the size of future Windows 10 updates by a third.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2016
Microsoft's long-term servicing branch (LTSB) concept for Windows 10 comes with a notable caveat for organizations using the Surface tablet-PC device.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2016
After a six-month public beta period, Microsoft's PowerApps and Flow developer services are now commercially available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2016
The path to a more open world has been an unpleasant one for Microsoft -- until recently.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 31, 2016