Microsoft's Azure Security Center, designed to protect virtual machines and other elements that a tenant may use when tapping Azure datacenter infrastructure, reached general availability on Thursday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 21, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft isn't likely to hit its stated goal of putting Windows 10 on 1 billion devices by its fiscal 2018, company executives admitted recently.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- July 18, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A ruling issued against Microsoft two years ago ordering the company to turn over the contents of e-mails stored in an offshore datacenter has been overturned by a federal appeals court.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- July 14, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Even though it lost Microsoft's product update support one year ago, Windows Server 2003 is still in use by nearly one-fifth of organizations, according to a recent Spiceworks report.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 14, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The pay-as-you-go revolution is coming to Microsoft's crown jewels -- the Windows client operating system and its golden child, the Surface device line.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- July 13, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    BitTitan, Dropbox, StorageCraft, Independence IT, Infinite Ops and SkyKick are among third-party vendors updating their cloud-related tools in Toronto.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- July 13, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The next-gen versions of Microsoft's Windows Server and System Center products will reach general availability at the Ignite conference this September, the company said Tuesday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 12, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The new Azure Information Protection solution, which extends the security capabilities of Microsoft's Azure Rights Management Service (RMS), is now available as a public preview release. 
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 12, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Initially expected to be released by the end of this year, Azure Stack will instead become generally available in mid-2017, Microsoft said on Tuesday. 
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 12, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft's elastic cloud computing platform, became generally available on Tuesday.
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- July 12, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new European Union-United States Privacy Shield agreement, announced by the European Commission on July 12, has the support of Microsoft's top government executive in the EU.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 12, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and General Electric (GE) on Monday unveiled a strategic partnership that will drive connections between GE's year-old Predix cloud platform for collecting and analyzing industrial data and Microsoft's various enterprise cloud applications.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- July 11, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Metalogix, a top Microsoft ISV, is expanding its partner program in a bid to help systems integrators (SIs) move their on-premises SharePoint customers to Office 365.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 11, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is readying a new cloud solution that combines its Dynamics ERP and Dynamics CRM line-of-business products, the company announced Wednesday. 
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 06, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With one month left before the free Windows 10 upgrade offer expires, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that the next major update to Windows 10 will arrive on Aug. 2.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- June 29, 2016