The new Azure Active Directory Identity Protection service, which aims to ward off compromised user accounts and configuration vulnerabilities, was released as a preview on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2016
The next round of updates to Microsoft's Dynamics CRM product, dubbed the "spring wave," will arrive in the second quarter, the company said on Wednesday.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 02, 2016
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off a new anti-malware solution for Windows 10 called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 01, 2016
Howard thinks it's time for partners to treat Microsoft with the same benign neglect it shows them.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- March 01, 2016
Microsoft's upcoming SharePoint Server 2016 product could hit the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) milestone on March 14, according to a report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 29, 2016
What mobile-first means now to Redmond in a (mostly) post-Windows Phone era.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 29, 2016
Microsoft's chief legal officer told Congress on Thursday that Microsoft "wholeheartedly" backs Apple's refusal to cooperate with government demands to decrypt an iPhone used by the perpetrators of last December's mass shooting attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 26, 2016
Microsoft added a number of security enhancements to its cloud offerings this week, including Azure Security Center improvements, a coming preview of Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, and a preview of a new Operations Management Suite (OMS) dashboard.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Xamarin, a provider of cross-platform developer tools for building mobile apps.
- By David Ramel
- February 24, 2016
Data protection software vendor Veeam on Wednesday named Kevin Rooney its new vice president of North American channel sales.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 24, 2016
Dell's planned acquisition of VMware parent company EMC has just cleared a major hurdle.
- By Keith Ward
- February 23, 2016
Since Microsoft announced last month that it was truncating its software lifecycle support policies for Intel Skylake-based client PCs running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, there have been questions about what the changes mean for other systems running those processors -- including Windows Embedded 7/8.1 devices or Windows Server 2012 servers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 23, 2016
Organizations with "hybrid" Exchange 2013 deployments risk service interruptions if their servers are not updated in time for the April release of a security certificate renewal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2016
While no one was looking, Microsoft assembled a surprisingly large library of major business and productivity apps for iOS and Android. Here are the best ones for partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 22, 2016
Microsoft has joined eight other companies in creating a new Internet of Things (IoT) consortium called the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 19, 2016