Tuesday marked the end of SQL Server 2005's "extended support" phase, meaning Microsoft's 10-year-old database server will no longer get patch support from the company.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2016
A new Windows 10 resource page from Microsoft gives some insight on current capabilities of the operating system, as well as features currently in development.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2016
Microsoft has upgraded build 1511 of Windows 10, which was originally issued to testers last November, from a "current branch" (CB) release to a "current branch for business" (CBB) release.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2016
You may have noticed Microsoft (and other cloud providers) usurping traditional partner services like migration. Get used to it.
- By M.S. Partner
- April 11, 2016
Microsoft's Cloud App Security service became generally available on Wednesday, enabling customers to track the use of Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) applications within their organization.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday released a new Windows 10 test build that includes previews of features coming in this summer's Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" (code-named "Redstone 1").
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2016
The shift to cloud services presents huge challenges to managed services providers (MSPs). Industry experts say the successful MSP of the near future looks very different from the successful MSP of the recent past.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 06, 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
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
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
More than being just a new offering, the CSP program requires Microsoft partners to design the business model that will take them into the future.
- By Barb Levisay
- 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