Microsoft declared this week that Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) is now available for installation on Windows Server 2022.
Microsoft this week announced that its new Windows Autopatch service is now available as a preview release for organizations.
Microsoft Entra is the newly announced product family name for Microsoft's existing identity and access management services, which also includes a newly renamed offering, plus a coming decentralized identity product offering.
Microsoft on Monday alerted users of an actively exploited vulnerability in Microsoft Office and has released a workaround.
Microsoft this week announced some External Identities enhancements for Azure Active Directory users.
Last year saw a significant decrease in "critical" security flaws in Microsoft software and a drop in overall vulnerabilities, according to a report released Friday by security firm BeyondTust.
Microsoft on Wednesday advised organizations using Active Directory to take a couple steps to protect against Kerberos resource-based constrained delegation relay attacks.
Chipmaker Broadcom announced Thursday its plans to acquire virtualization pioneer and multicloud leader VMware for $61 billion in a landmark tech deal surpassed in value only by Dell's $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 and Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard earlier this year.
Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory security enhancements this week.
Meta, formerly known as "Facebook," is using the latest Azure virtual machines (VMs) with graphics processing unit (GPU) compute power for its "large-scale AI research workloads," Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team is warning that Web skimming attacks are becoming more sophisticated and are able to hide malicious scripts from traditional security defenses.
The Microsoft Build keynote talk by CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday stressed Microsoft's role as a builder of platforms that other organizations can use to build their own platforms.
Microsoft's annual Build conference for developers kicked off on Tuesday as a virtual event with the usual deluge of product announcements.
Users of the Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) service now have access to some basic Microsoft Teams functionality.
Microsoft on Thursday declared that authentication problems associated with its May monthly updates have been resolved via newly released updates.
Microsoft on Wednesday outlined concessions to European regulators and to European service providers that will be coming via the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partner program.
Microsoft and Citrix announced plans to make Citrix's "high-definition user experience" (HDX) technologies available as an option for Windows 365 desktop-as-a-service users.
Use of the Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) service is poised for growth, according to a recently published industry study that surveyed IT pros.
Paying the demands of ransomware attackers for hijacked organizational data does not come with a guarantee that organizations will recover that data.
During the VeeamOn conference this week, backup and recovery company Veeam revealed a handful of new features to its solution portfolio.