Microsoft's emerging Server Management Tools offering, currently available at the preview stage, now includes Windows Update.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 12, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft plans to take down the Sunrise calendar applications for Android and iOS devices on Aug. 31. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 11, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week announced that its upcoming Nano Server deployment option can't be managed using Group Policy controls. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 11, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Office Online Server, Microsoft's successor to Office Web Apps Server 2013, became available to MSDN subscribers on Monday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 09, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft will terminate Windows 10's free upgrade offer on July 29, one year after its initial launch, the company confirmed this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 06, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Despite rivals Microsoft and Google enjoying growth rates well over 100 percent, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) maintains a solid lead in the cloud infrastructure market with 31 percent worldwide market share.
                    
			            - By David  Ramel
- May 06, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Windows 10 Pro edition imposes limits to the ability of IT pros to control Windows Store access, according to a report this week by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 05, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft released the final versions of its SharePoint Server 2016 and Office Online Server products on Wednesday. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 04, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In a move to beef up its emerging Internet of Things (IoT) platform, Microsoft on Tuesday announced the acquisition of 5-year-old Italian startup Solair.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- May 03, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's next-generation relational database operating system will become publicly available on June 1, the company announced Monday.
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- May 02, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    To reduce the number of its management dashboards, Microsoft said recently it will move its Intune Service Health mobile management dashboard into its Office 365 management portal.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 02, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Public previews of two new Microsoft services, Flow and PowerApps, became available on Friday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 29, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week announced upcoming additions to its Intune service aimed at mobile application management (MAM).
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 28, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft released the latest beta versions of both Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 on Wednesday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 27, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft intends to support its smartphone platform "for many years," according to a leaked internal e-mail attributed to Terry Myerson, chief of Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- April 27, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Tuesday launched an invite-only preview of its Skype for Business product for Mac clients.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 27, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Users of Microsoft's enterprise social networking service can now collaborate with people outside their organizations.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 26, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is among over two dozen companies that have joined Dell's newly launched effort to create an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- April 25, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and Google have declared a ceasefire on filling legal complaints against each other with government regulators.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 25, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    During Microsoft's third-quarter earnings call last week, CEO Satya Nadella touted Office 365 as a new cornerstone of Microsoft's embrace-and-extend philosophy that once made Windows the standard for business computing.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- April 25, 2016