Artificial intelligence and machine learning took center stage at the Microsoft Build 2018 conference in Seattle on Monday.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/07/2018
Home is where your data is. If you need to access data remotely, and neither a VPN connection nor traditional cloud storage will do the trick, consider using OneDrive as a proxy for remote file access.
Microsoft is bringing its OneDrive file-sharing and collaboration capabilities seen with Windows desktop and Web applications to Office for Mac, as well as to Android and iOS mobile applications.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" of Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that's designed to make it easier for developers to spin up containers on Microsoft's public datacenter infrastructure.
If Microsoft makes a bunch of updates to its Dynamics business but nobody is around to communicate it, does it make a sound?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 04/25/2018
Microsoft this week announced tooling enhancements to help organizations using Azure and Office 365 services meet the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation requirements.
Microsoft this week described progress on its sprawling collection of security services, including its Advanced Threat Protection, Conditional Access, Information Protection and Security Graph solutions.
Microsoft now enables the use of Outlook e-mail client applications for Android or iOS devices with some Exchange Server products in "hybrid modern authentication" scenarios.
Microsoft gave advance notice this month that it's planning to change the user interface for carrying out Azure Active Directory logins, yet again.
Microsoft this week offered some practical advice on how to set up its hybrid cloud printing capability.
Microsoft announced a $5 billion Internet of Things investment plan on Wednesday, with spending occurring "over the next four years."
The cloud solves a lot of traditional Windows network problems, but printing isn't one of them. And while the market offers some solutions, each one comes with its own baggage.
- By Adam Bertram
- 04/04/2018
Microsoft announced two new Azure datacenter regions in Australia this week.
The Azure Availability Zones uptime assurance offering for hosted workloads is now ready for use by some Azure users, according to a Microsoft announcement on Friday.
Microsoft described Project VAST this week, a new tool that promises to visually surface security problems.
Microsoft on Thursday announced a major reorganization that has significant implications for its Windows business.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse service is now available across all 33 Microsoft Azure regions.
The Azure Service Health dashboard, used to check the status of Azure services, has reached the "general availability" stage, Microsoft announced this week.
Microsoft now has "next-generation" Azure Monitor alert capabilities that can incur costs to use, alongside its free "classic" alerts.
Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of a new Serial Console command-line tool for recovering Linux and Windows VMs running on Azure infrastructure.