The first Azure appliance debuted to much fanfare at the 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference, only to fade from the spotlight almost immediately after. Four years later, Microsoft is reviving its earlier plans with the new Cloud Platform System.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 01, 2014
Major new feature additions are in the pipeline for Office 365, some of which were demonstrated at last week's Live! 360/SharePoint Live! conference in Orlando, Fla.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 24, 2014
Windows Store management capabilities will arrive "in the coming months" for organizations using Windows 10 apps, Microsoft said Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 21, 2014
Microsoft on Thursday issued a preliminary explanation for the widespread outages that hit its Azure cloud service on Tuesday evening.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 20, 2014
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. recently announced several enhancements to its partner network, including an expansion of partner resources and the addition of programs aimed at managed services providers and SaaS-focused partners.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 20, 2014
Widespread "partial disruptions" affecting Microsoft's' Azure cloud computing services Tuesday night are now "mitigated," according to Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 19, 2014
Microsoft's new identity and access management product, Microsoft Identity Manager, became available as a preview on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 19, 2014
Select subscribers of Office 365 are now able to test drive Microsoft's new Office 365 video service, Microsoft announced Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2014
Microsoft is currently rolling out the latest updates to its Intune device management service, a three-day process that began on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2014
The rollout of Microsoft's OneDrive for Business service Office 365 ProPlus users will be completed "before the end of January 2015," Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2014
Microsoft is rolling out its new per-user Windows licensing option next month, introducing a number of changes that organizations with volume licensing will have to learn.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2014
Microsoft on Thursday acquired Israel-based identity and access management firm Aorato Ltd. for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 13, 2014
The "Clutter" e-mail prioritization feature that Microsoft debuted in March is now starting to be rolled out to Office 365 business users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 13, 2014
The next version of Lync, Microsoft's unified communications platform for enterprises, will be renamed "Skype for Business" sometime in the first half of 2015, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 12, 2014
Rackspace announced during its third quarter earnings report on Monday that it is joining Microsoft's Cloud OS Network, an elite hosting program that aims to provide Microsoft Azure-compatible third-party cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 12, 2014