Microsoft's "Project Madeira," a new, cloud-based business application that's built on the company's Dynamics NAV platform, is now available as a public preview for U.S. organizations. 
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- April 12, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week announced enhancements to its Office suite that leverage some recently acquired technologies aimed at improving users' personal time management.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 08, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The shift to cloud services presents huge challenges to managed services providers (MSPs). Industry experts say the successful MSP of the near future looks very different from the successful MSP of the recent past. 
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 06, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Office 365 Groups service will soon have a new "Connectors" feature that will link end users with third-party services and newsfeeds. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 29, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Starting Tuesday, Office 365 subscribers will begin receiving access to Microsoft's new "reporting portal."
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 15, 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 worldwide commercial rollout of Microsoft's Office 365 Admin Center management console will begin in a few weeks, Microsoft said on Friday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 05, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft added a number of security enhancements to its cloud offerings this week, including Azure Security Center improvements, a coming preview of Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, and a preview of a new Operations Management Suite (OMS) dashboard.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 26, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizations with "hybrid" Exchange 2013 deployments risk service interruptions if their servers are not updated in time for the April release of a security certificate renewal.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 22, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Wednesday announced a number of improvements to its Office 365 product, including the expansion of some service limitations.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 18, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Tuesday announced improvements to the user profile feature in Delve, the discovery and social networking solution that's included in Office 365.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 16, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is changing how it describes Office 365 client updates. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 10, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Most organizations used the on-premises SharePoint Server in 2015 instead of SharePoint Online, which is part of Microsoft's Office 365 cloud suite, according to an industry study.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 09, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is starting to roll out its Yammer social networking service to more users with qualifying Office 365 subscriptions, the company announced Tuesday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 02, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft posted growth in its cloud business, mixed results on the productivity and business processes business, and declines in the unit that includes Windows OEM revenues and devices in its second-quarter results reported Thursday.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 28, 2016