By most measures, the public cloud market is a two-horse race between AWS and Microsoft. Partners are increasingly seeing the benefits of tying their fortunes to both cloud vendors, but doing so requires a good deal of training, planning and trust.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 19, 2016
Microsoft's top cloud executive this week signaled a shift away from the tradition of intense price-based competition between Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) and Azure.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 14, 2016
Microsoft is opening up its technical team to questions from users of its new Upgrade Analytics solution, currently in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 14, 2016
Microsoft's Azure portal management tool is getting new Azure Active Directory features, which the company unveiled on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 13, 2016
Microsoft rewrote its whole playbook for taking a new client OS to market with the Windows 10 release. A year later, the company's financials and analyst reports reveal how well it's working out -- for Microsoft and the ecosystem.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 12, 2016
Two new products bearing Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AD) brand are expected to exit the preview stage next week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 08, 2016
Microsoft took steps to expand its cloud footprint this week with the launch of new datacenter locations in the United Kingdom.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 07, 2016
Starting Nov. 1, Microsoft will stop providing updates for its SmartScreen e-mail spam filters, the company said earlier this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 07, 2016
Microsoft's announcement of a more restrictive deployment model for Azure Stack, in addition to its delayed release, has left lots of partners scrambling.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 06, 2016
Microsoft this week announced a number of end-user improvements coming to Office 365 Groups and SharePoint Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 02, 2016
Microsoft's promised pay-as-you go version of Windows 10 Enterprise is now available through its Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 01, 2016
The latest messaging from Microsoft indicates that organizations have little choice but to adapt to Windows 10's servicing model to keep their Windows clients and servers -- including older versions -- updated and patched.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2016
Microsoft is stumping for Windows Server 2016 ahead of its debut next month at the Ignite conference. This week, the company touted the new server's technical performance specs compared to the current crop of Windows Server offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 26, 2016
Microsoft is readying a new offer aimed at swaying organizations running VMware to switch to Hyper-V.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016
Windows 10 users moving from version 1511 to version 1607, dubbed the "anniversary update," may find applications installed on their systems that they'd previously removed.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2016