Eight months after its release, Microsoft's Edge browser is currently activated on 150 million devices, Microsoft said Monday at its Edge Web Summit event in San Francisco.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 05, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    At the opening keynote of Microsoft's inaugural Envision conference in New Orleans, the spotlight was on HoloLens and how Microsoft sees the virtual reality technology transforming a wide swath of industries. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- April 04, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft fired another volley against cloud rival Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) at its Build conference last week, announcing the preview release of its new Azure Functions service.
                    
			            - By David  Ramel
- April 04, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced several developments related to its Azure cloud computing resources during Build this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 01, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft made several moves to strengthen its open source bona fides during this week's Build conference, announcing support for the Bash shell on Windows and open-sourcing the core Xamarin platform.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie, Jeffrey  Schwartz
- March 31, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    At Microsoft's Build conference on Wednesday, CEO Satya Nadella laid out his company's vision for the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- March 30, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The first of two major Windows 10 updates, code-named "Redstone," will become generally available this summer, Microsoft announced Wednesday at its Build conference in San Francisco. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 30, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Since arriving at Dropbox from Microsoft just eight months ago, Thomas Hansen has put in motion a channel program that's on pace to bring on thousands of new resellers and solution integration partners.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- March 30, 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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Surface Hub, Microsoft's big-screen videoconferencing and white-boarding product, began shipping last week. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 28, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    When it comes to managing Windows 10 devices, users are often confused about which of Microsoft's management products -- namely, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Microsoft Intune -- to use.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 25, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google this week unveiled its Google Cloud Machine Learning offering, pitting it against machine learning (ML) services from cloud rivals Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS). 
                    
			            - By David  Ramel
- March 24, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is beefing up its cloud-based analytics service to make it more enterprise-ready, the company announced Tuesday at its first-annual Data Insights Summit in Bellevue, Wash. 
                    
			            - By David  Ramel
- March 23, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's latest tool for checking Azure Active Directory (AD) synchronization issues is now generally available, the company announced Tuesday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 23, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has issued another release candidate (RC) of SQL Server 2016, signaling that the upcoming database system is nearly feature-complete.
                    
			            - By David  Ramel
- March 22, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is adding one more year to the support lifetimes of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 devices running Intel Skylake, the company said Friday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 21, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new preview build of Windows 10 introduces the long-anticipated extensions capability for Microsoft's Edge Web browser.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 18, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Under certain circumstances, it will be possible for Windows 10 Mobile devices to access both personal and business resources using the same device but with different user credentials. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 17, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    After several delays, Microsoft on Thursday finally rolled out Windows 10 Mobile as a free upgrade to existing Windows Phone 8.1 users.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- March 17, 2016
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Starting Tuesday, Office 365 subscribers will begin receiving access to Microsoft's new "reporting portal."
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 15, 2016