Microsoft's investments into this emerging technology made some big waves this year.
From AI becoming more mature to Microsoft's augmented reality advances, Brien's predictions from the start of this year were right on the money.
The constant stream of new features and updates is great, but keeping track of all the changes can be a serious headache. Luckily, Microsoft isn't leaving its customers to figure it out alone.
While the hardware might not have changed much since last year, the experience has definitely been improved.
In no particular order, I'm going to note the most-overlooked happenings from 2017.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 12/04/2017
With help from the Microsoft Office Services Sign-In Assistant, you can delay or pause synchronizations in Office 365.
HPE sets its sights on bringing artificial intelligence to the datacenter, while the multitenant datacenter market is poised to grow thanks to the innovations of green technology.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/30/2017
While the app has potential to be a great way to keep on top of tasks, it needs some improvements.
Nearly two months after Equifax revealed perhaps the worst breach of consumer data to date, more revelations of incompetence emerge, and yet the only ones who pay the price are the customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/08/2017
Under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft increasingly has been focusing on its enterprise software and services strengths.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 11/03/2017
As the threat landscape gets more complicated, one possible solution seems obvious: Deploy more third-party security software. But what happens when those programs turn out to be part of the problem?
Using MAMR technology, the high-capacity hard drive disks will be perfectly suited for enterprise datacenters.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/26/2017
Create general or custom alerts when configuration changes have been made in Office 365.
Few businesses leaders have been more outspoken than Microsoft President Brad Smith, backed by his boss CEO Satya Nadella, himself an immigrant, about Trump's move to end DACA.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2017
The "Calvin & Hobbes" cartoon's imaginary game of making the rules up as you go is a near-perfect representation of what modern IT has become.
Outlook's new LinkedIn hooks will help personalize e-mails to those you might not know too much about.
While there are many tools out there that will help you keep on top of your tasks and assignments, Office 365 Planner integrates useful collaboration tools in its offering.
One of the cultural changes that has occurred on Nadella's watch that rarely gets little more than cursory scrutiny is Microsoft's attitude toward partnering.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 09/28/2017
The new suite will include increased support and security tools for datacenter managers.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2017
With the help of PowerShell, Hyper-V management is simplified when actions can be performed in bulk.