Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft's elastic cloud computing platform, became generally available on Tuesday.
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- July 12, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new European Union-United States Privacy Shield agreement, announced by the European Commission on July 12, has the support of Microsoft's top government executive in the EU.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 12, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and General Electric (GE) on Monday unveiled a strategic partnership that will drive connections between GE's year-old Predix cloud platform for collecting and analyzing industrial data and Microsoft's various enterprise cloud applications.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- July 11, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Metalogix, a top Microsoft ISV, is expanding its partner program in a bid to help systems integrators (SIs) move their on-premises SharePoint customers to Office 365.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 11, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week took the wraps off a new upper-tier software licensing offering for organizations called "Secure Productive Enterprise."
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 08, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Kevin Turner, Microsoft's hard-charging and controversial COO whose folksy zingers at competitors were a highlight of the annual Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), is leaving Microsoft at the end of July to become CEO of Citadel Securities and vice chairman of Citadel LLC.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- July 07, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is readying a new cloud solution that combines its Dynamics ERP and Dynamics CRM line-of-business products, the company announced Wednesday. 
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- July 06, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is preparing a new licensing option called "Enterprise Advantage" for its Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) program.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 05, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Gavriella Schuster was named the corporate vice president for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group (WPG) on Thursday, putting her in charge of coordinating Microsoft's channel efforts across all customer segments and country subsidiaries.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- July 01, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Thursday named Gavriella Schuster the corporate vice president of the Worldwide Partner Group (WPG), which is the company's top channel position.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- June 30, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With one month left before the free Windows 10 upgrade offer expires, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that the next major update to Windows 10 will arrive on Aug. 2.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- June 29, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is lighting up new Office 365 capabilities, including Outlook travel and tracking improvements, Office application inking capabilities, and Sway enhancements. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 29, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is planning a new, "clearer" version of its Get Windows 10 (GWX) application, the company said this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 28, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled its new "Lightning for Outlook" connector tool as part of the collaboration deal it inked with Microsoft two years ago.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- June 28, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has paid out $10,000 after losing a lawsuit blaming unauthorized Windows 10 upgrades for disrupting a California business.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 27, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) public clouds are now certified to run highly sensitive workloads from government agencies.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- June 27, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently released technical preview 1606 of its System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) product.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 24, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new security service for Microsoft's Azure platform will hit preview next month and become generally available later this year, Microsoft announced Wednesday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 22, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week launched Microsoft Flow, a mobile application designed to track workflows, for iOS devices.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 22, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week unveiled the first mobile platform release of its new SharePoint client experience, marketed as "your intranet in your pocket." 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 21, 2016