Microsoft is adding one more year to the support lifetimes of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 devices running Intel Skylake, the company said Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 21, 2016
A new preview build of Windows 10 introduces the long-anticipated extensions capability for Microsoft's Edge Web browser.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 18, 2016
According to IDC, partners that bet their businesses on Microsoft's cloud are making out like bandits. Scott digs into some of the specifics.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 16, 2016
New research from Spiceworks Inc., a provider of tools and resources for IT pros, indicates that Microsoft Azure's lead over Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) space is poised to grow.
- By David Ramel
- March 15, 2016
Microsoft's newest collaboration and document sharing server product reached the "release-to-manufacturing" (RTM) milestone on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 14, 2016
Redmond's cloud storage frenemies continue to deepen their integration with Microsoft even as they beef up their own services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 14, 2016
The spotlight was on SQL Server 2016 at Thursday's Data Driven conference, where Microsoft gave its case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own.
- By David Ramel
- March 10, 2016
Microsoft's Dynamics AX product is now a full-fledged Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering on the Azure public cloud.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 09, 2016
As Microsoft becomes more and more desperate to drive consumption, expect the range of free services offerings from FastTrack to keep ballooning.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 09, 2016
The second of Microsoft's two planned Windows 10 updates this year has been delayed until the spring of 2017, according to media reports.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 07, 2016
Microsoft on Monday issued a release candidate (RC0) of its upcoming SQL Server 2016 database system, as well as announced its plans to enable SQL Server to run on Linux.
- By David Ramel
- March 07, 2016
The new Azure Active Directory Identity Protection service, which aims to ward off compromised user accounts and configuration vulnerabilities, was released as a preview on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off a new anti-malware solution for Windows 10 called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 01, 2016
Microsoft's upcoming SharePoint Server 2016 product could hit the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) milestone on March 14, according to a report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 29, 2016
Microsoft's chief legal officer told Congress on Thursday that Microsoft "wholeheartedly" backs Apple's refusal to cooperate with government demands to decrypt an iPhone used by the perpetrators of last December's mass shooting attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 26, 2016