Nonprofit publication Consumer Reports knocked Microsoft's Surface line down a peg last week, retracting its "recommended" designation for the PC and tablet family.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 14, 2017
A new edition of the Windows 10 client OS, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, is coming this fall for organizations with "mission critical and compute intensive workloads," Microsoft said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 11, 2017
Security software vendor Kaspersky Lab on Thursday said it is dropping its antitrust complaints against Microsoft regarding Windows 10's treatment of "third-party" anti-malware products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 10, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the addition of an auto-remediation capability to its Cloud App Security service, enabling administrators to compel user log-ins and invalidate user sessions in response to certain kinds of security threats.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 10, 2017
A new expiration capability in Microsoft's Office 365 Groups collaboration service is now available in preview, Microsoft said Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 09, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday launched the public preview of a new service for reporting on mobile device and mobile application use.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 09, 2017
Besides answering questions about valuation, tax advisers can help partners settle the many other tax obligations that are part of selling any IT services company.
- By Reed Warren
- August 09, 2017
Most partners are not investing enough resources to take full advantage of the cloud opportunity, despite owing an ever-growing proportion of their revenues to cloud-based sales.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2017
Done right, hosting can be very profitable for partners, but it's hard to compete with the mega-vendors without taking a co-location approach.
- By Per Werngren
- August 07, 2017
Microsoft recently announced new improvements coming to SharePoint, including mobile application support for the new Communication Site feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 07, 2017
Microsoft is giving Office 365 Teams administrators more control over third-party applications, among other improvements the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 04, 2017
Microsoft has released an early version of a new Office 365 feature that would let users permit or block guest access to Office 365 groups.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 04, 2017
Microsoft is changing up how users sign in to Azure Active Directory (AD) and their Microsoft accounts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled two leasing programs for its various Surface devices -- one for students and one for SMBs -- that both have plenty of fine print to consider.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2017
Device Health, a new service from Microsoft designed to check Windows 10 client devices for driver issues and crashes, is now in public preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2017