Microsoft on Wednesday announced a few improvements to OneDrive for Business, including a new sync client, new user experience improvements in browsers and in mobile apps, and enhanced IT management controls.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 01, 2015
Microsoft launched multiple new Azure services on Tuesday, some of them as previews and others as general availability releases, as part of its AzureCon Web event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 30, 2015
Microsoft on Monday gave an update on some forthcoming additions to its Big Data portfolio, including Azure Data Lake Store.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 29, 2015
Microsoft recently published two documents aimed at giving organizations some guidance regarding Windows 10 servicing models and deployment scenarios.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 28, 2015
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Microsoft Onboarding Center (OBC) has been controversial with partners since it was unveiled as a way to help customers migrate mailboxes to Office 365. The current iteration goes further, with Microsoft employees migrating data and branching out to other products. A Q&A with senior Microsoft exec John Case.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 24, 2015
For as long as Redmond has offered Microsoft Azure, it's been available to partners. At the beginning of this fiscal year, though, the company started a much more concerted push to bring more of the channel along. Is there enough incentive, especially on the SMB side, for it to make sense for partners?
- By Scott Bekker
- September 23, 2015
Microsoft raised eyebrows last week when it revealed that its new Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) datacenter operating system has a Linux core.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 21, 2015
For the first time, Dynamics partners can take advantage of the biggest change to Microsoft's cloud business model.
- By Barb Levisay
- September 17, 2015
Windows RT users are mostly shut out of the new features available in Windows 10, but they can at least take advantage of Windows 10's Start Menu.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 16, 2015
Office 2016 will arrive with service models that are "consistent" with the approach Microsoft has used with Windows 10, the company explained this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 15, 2015
Microsoft turned off many partners last year when it flubbed the announcement of its Office 365 onboarding plans. This year, the messaging has been decidedly more partner-friendly.
- By M.S. Partner
- September 14, 2015
Microsoft recently rolled out a preview of a new Management Pack for System Center 2012 Operations Manager that supports the newly released SharePoint Server 2016 IT preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 14, 2015
Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel and executive vice president of legal and corporate affairs, has been named the company's president, Microsoft announced Friday.
- By Chris Paoli
- September 11, 2015
Both SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Server 2010 received September cumulative updates (CUs) from Microsoft this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 09, 2015
Microsoft is already shaking up the Windows ecosystem with its new delivery model for Windows 10. Is it time for Microsoft to take another step and do the once unthinkable -- make Windows open source? We look at the perks, pitfalls and complications that would be involved if Windows were to go open source.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 08, 2015