This week, Microsoft announced a bunch of product enhancement milestones for users of Office 365 applications.
Participants in Microsoft's Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for out-of-support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 machines faced new installation requirements on Tuesday.
All told, Microsoft is addressing 99 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in this February security bundle.
Microsoft has reversed course on its plan to deliver an extension to Office 365 ProPlus users that would switch their Chrome and Firefox browser search engines to Bing.
Coming changes to the Microsoft Secure Score security assessment service for organizations will make it a "killer productivity app for security administrators," Microsoft promised in a Monday announcement.
Google is planning to issue warnings to Chrome browser users about potentially insecure content that can get downloaded when visiting Web sites.
Microsoft described progress on its coming PowerShell Secrets Management Module in a Thursday announcement.
The biggest cloud security issue plaguing organizations is misconfigurations, according to the National Security Agency (NSA), which recently published a security report titled "Mitigating Cloud Vulnerabilities."
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its Backup Explorer tool for Azure services is available as a preview.
Microsoft expects to delay enforcement of configuration changes to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) until the second half of this year, according to a Tuesday update to Security Advisory ADV190023.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of Azure Active Directory conditional access policies for Office 365 applications.
A recent endpoint security survey of 671 IT pros suggested that most organizations have been attacked and their confidence in the effectiveness of anti-virus protections continues to be low.
Google is now previewing Kubernetes orchestration support for Windows Server containers housed on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), according to a Thursday announcement.
Microsoft's Surface Hub 2X conferencing devices, promised for delivery this year, could be hitting an impasse.
Microsoft offered more gritty details for IT pros deploying Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for either Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 systems in a Thursday announcement.
The Internet Explorer 10 browser will reach its end-of-support milestone on Feb. 11, 2020 for both Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
IT pros could face Web application issues as early as next month with the implementation of a coming SameSite Web change, which will affect how cookies are used across sites.
Microsoft last week described a few Azure Active Directory improvements for organizations wanting to connect their applications to Microsoft's identity and access service.
The Free Software Foundation this week announced that it has established a petition demanding that Microsoft release its proprietary Windows 7 code as free software.
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform has been making inroads against competitors Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in terms of job availability and interest.