CEO Satya Nadella's $1 billion security initiative yields fruit with the Azure Security Center, powered by the technology behind Azure Machine Learning.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 22, 2016
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