WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Microsoft Onboarding Center (OBC) has been controversial with partners since it was unveiled as a way to help customers migrate mailboxes to Office 365. The current iteration goes further, with Microsoft employees migrating data and branching out to other products. A Q&A with senior Microsoft exec John Case.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 24, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out an update to the third technical preview (TP3) of its System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2016 product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 24, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday issued a brief explanation for the lengthy outage that affected its consumer Skype product on Sept. 21.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 23, 2015
For as long as Redmond has offered Microsoft Azure, it's been available to partners. At the beginning of this fiscal year, though, the company started a much more concerted push to bring more of the channel along. Is there enough incentive, especially on the SMB side, for it to make sense for partners?
- By Scott Bekker
- September 23, 2015
Office 2016, the newest version of Microsoft's flagship productivity suite for Windows, was officially launched on Tuesday, Sept. 22, but its availability may depend on what kind of customer you are.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 23, 2015
As expected, Office 2016, Microsoft's next-generation productivity suite for Windows, became generally available on Tuesday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 22, 2015
The consumer version of Skype, Microsoft's voice and video calling service, was unavailable for a significant part of Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 21, 2015
Though EMS is still relatively new, Microsoft is touting the mobility management offering as a major competitor of established solutions from Citrix, IBM and VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 21, 2015
Microsoft raised eyebrows last week when it revealed that its new Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) datacenter operating system has a Linux core.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 21, 2015
Microsoft on Thursday launched a preview of its newly designed Office 365 Admin Center.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 18, 2015
At Wednesday's Dreamforce conference keynote, the spotlight was on Microsoft's partnership with CRM rival Salesforce.com.
- By John K. Waters
- September 17, 2015
Sometime rivals Microsoft and Salesforce.com this week shared their latest plans to integrate their various enterprise productivity offerings.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 17, 2015
Organizations looking to migrate large amounts of data to Microsoft's datacenters can now test drive the new Office 365 Import Service option.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 17, 2015
For the first time, Dynamics partners can take advantage of the biggest change to Microsoft's cloud business model.
- By Barb Levisay
- September 17, 2015
Windows RT users are mostly shut out of the new features available in Windows 10, but they can at least take advantage of Windows 10's Start Menu.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 16, 2015