Microsoft can now take over quality and security patching operations in organizations, including Windows operating system feature updates, plus driver updates, in a new feature announced Tuesday called Windows Autopatch.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 05, 2022
Microsoft on Tuesday outlined a few new upgrades and features to Windows 11, including a redesigned File Explorer.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 05, 2022
As part of its broader effort to support hybrid office scenarios, Microsoft is planning several Windows 365 enhancements aimed at people expecting to work remotely.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 05, 2022
Microsoft is readying a raft of "premium" add-on capabilities for its Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) product, which it is positioning as a "single, cloud powered solution" for organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 05, 2022
The "general availability" commercial release of System Center 2022 is now available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2022
Microsoft is buying European firm Minit, maker of process mining software for enterprises, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2022
Microsoft's Azure Front Door, the company's latest content delivery network (CDN) service for securing and supporting high-availability Web content and "global" applications, is now commercially available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2022
Microsoft's new software-as-a-service offering for U.S. federal agencies and their partners, Office 365 Government Secret, will arrive by mid-2022, the company announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 28, 2022
The Biden White House and the European Commission have taken first steps in agreeing on a new "Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework".
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 25, 2022
U.S. "critical infrastructure" operators should "harden their cyberdefenses immediately" against possible Russian attacks, per a warning by The Biden White House this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 22, 2022
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that a preview of Teams Connect shared channels, which aims to ease collaborations with external parties, will be arriving this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 17, 2022
Microsoft is planning a major cloud-focused facelift for its partner program this fall that will significantly impact the more than 400,000 organizations in its ranks.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 16, 2022
According to a recent Microsoft "Work Trend Index" report, the company says that the shift to a remote workforce over the last couple of years has yielded positive returns.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 16, 2022
As part of its broader Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare program, Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Azure Health Data Services, a platform for managing and analyzing various forms of patient data.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 16, 2022
Microsoft announced on Tuesday new features for its Teams platform aimed at how health care workers interact and communicate with patients.
- By Chris Paoli
- March 15, 2022
More and more workloads are headed to the cloud, but that hasn't slowed down spending on IT hardware, according to a new report by Spiceworks Ziff Davis.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 15, 2022
The commercial release of Azure Stack Edge Pro 2 has hit "general availability" this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 11, 2022
Google's cloud business is set to get a major cybersecurity asset with its planned acquisition of Mandiant for $5.4 billion.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 08, 2022
Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance Communications Inc. is now complete, the company announced on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2022
Microsoft on Friday announced that it will be halting all new sales to Russia due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
- By Chris Paoli
- March 04, 2022