The two-day Microsoft Inspire partner conference, online for the second year in a row, kicked off Wednesday with, unsurprisingly, myriad partner announcements.
- By John K. Waters
- July 14, 2021
Hitting general availability on Aug. 2 "to organizations of all sizes" is Windows 365, a new Microsoft virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service for business users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2021
In a move aimed at strengthening its cyberthreat protection capabilities, Microsoft this week announced it it is acquiring San Francisco-based RiskIQ.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2021
Azure Lighthouse has a new feature in preview that potentially adds to the trust relationship between MSPs and their customers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2021
About 60 MSPs and almost 1,500 of their business customers may have been affected by a ransomware attack targeting Kaseya's VSA management solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 07, 2021
The first Windows 11 preview build was released this week, along with some tips from Microsoft for businesses planning to move to the new desktop OS.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2021
Microsoft will retire Cloudyn, its cloud cost management product, at the end of this month in favor of the Azure Cost Management and Billing solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2021
Microsoft last week disclosed new Azure services, bolstered by partners, to support enterprises tapping private 5G networks and edge computing services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2021
Ahead of a June 24 Microsoft presentation about the future of Windows, a pre-release build of Microsoft's next client operating system was leaked this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2021
Microsoft has historically kept mum about its emergency security response program. That changed this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2021
Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop service is now called Azure Virtual Desktop, to indicate that it is becoming "a flexible cloud VDI platform for nearly any use case."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2021
An upcoming online presentation promises to shed some light on what Microsoft has planned for the Windows operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 03, 2021
Microsoft this week said it is acquiring IoT security provider ReFirm Labs, which was founded by former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) hackers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 02, 2021
The next generation of Windows 10 will be coming "soon" to increase opportunities for developers, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during Build.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 26, 2021
Internet Explorer 11, the final version of Microsoft's venerable Internet browser, will fall out of support next year for select Windows 10 editions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 25, 2021