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Foley on Microsoft
Microsoft hopes that the digital ink trend will finally find traction as new features for digital note takers will be included in the Windows 10 Anniversary update.
04/27/2016
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Microsoft offers rich e-mail auditing capabilities for Exchange Online but third-party tools may offer more detailed and customizable reports.
04/27/2016
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News
An initial preview of Microsoft's emerging Skype for Business for Mac client is available today, but it's just for invite-only IT pro testers.
04/26/2016
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News
Microsoft today turned on a new "external groups" collaboration feature in its Yammer enterprise social networking service.
04/26/2016
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In-Depth
Microsoft's new Passport for Work helps enroll Windows 10 devices using the new Windows Hello biometric authentication to Active Directory.
04/26/2016
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In-Depth
Tapping hybrid SharePoint capabilities involves making some configuration changes and meeting certain software requirements, according to an expert.
04/25/2016
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Dell lines up 25 partners for its push to advance its IoT business and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks up Redmond's effort to digitize industrial manufacturing at Hanover Messe gathering.
04/25/2016
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Among the many initiatives in Redmond, the one that could most transform how people work and play is conversational computing using advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
04/25/2016
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Windows Server 2012's most annoying feature can be bypassed -- just not in the way that you would expect.
04/25/2016
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News
Microsoft and Google are said to be burying the hatchet when it comes to filing legal complaints against each other via government regulatory agencies.
04/22/2016
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News
Microsoft is advising organizations running Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to defer installing its update KB3148812, which was released earlier this week.
04/22/2016
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Microsoft may have disappointed Wall Street by missing earnings per share estimates for the latest quarter but CEO Satya Nadella emphasized the results validate the company's shift to cloud services is working with growth of Office 365.
04/22/2016
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In-Depth
Many of the tried-and-true shortcut commands still work in the latest version of Windows Server and Windows 10. However, there's a few new additions that you might not know about.
04/22/2016
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News
On Thursday, Microsoft said it expects a higher effective tax rate from licensing shifts and revenue deferrals, along with lower-than-expected earnings per share (EPS), during its quarterly earnings report.
04/21/2016
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The company's founder said its DCOS offering is for 'Apps Running at Datacenter Scale.'
04/21/2016
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News
Microsoft today announced free new educational resources for IT pros who may be coming to grips with Microsoft's cloud-centric shift.
04/20/2016
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Intel is reorganizing to focus on the datacenter, cloud infrastructure, smart computing devices, IoT and hybrid tablet PCs.
04/20/2016
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Orders demanding access to customer data without their knowledge is too widespread and should be restricted, according to Bill Gates.
04/20/2016
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If the company wants the device to be relevant, it will need to learn the mistakes of the past and have a vibrant app ecosystem up and running quickly.
04/20/2016
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News
Microsoft is continuing to issue consumer Skype bot client previews, adding new Mac and Web client support this week.
04/19/2016
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News
Today Microsoft announced the commercial availability of its Azure Container Service, while its partner Mesosphere announced the launch of a new open source DC/OS project.
04/19/2016
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News
In a blog posted on Friday, Microsoft announced that the final release candidate for SQL Server 2016 is now available.
04/19/2016
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News
Microsoft gave notice on its older Active Directory synchronization tools, giving IT pros almost a year to move to its newer Azure Active Directory Connect tool.
04/18/2016
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The Schwartz Report
Administrators and users should uninstall QuickTime from all Windows-based systems following the discovery of two vulnerabilities in the software that Apple has stopped supporting.
04/18/2016
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News
Microsoft is previewing Skype voice and video communications using its Edge browser without the use of browser plug-ins.
04/15/2016
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Box CEO Aaron Levie weights in on Microsoft's current lawsuit against the Feds and what it means for the future of protecting customer cloud data.
04/15/2016
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The Feds are demanding secrecy in thousands of warrants, which violate two key constitutional amendments, Microsoft has charged in its latest lawsuit.
04/15/2016
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While the cause to run universal apps logged in as an admin may never come up, it's now possible to do this in Windows 10.
04/15/2016
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News
The popularity of Office 365 applications and services among organizations remains high, according to new survey results.
04/14/2016
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Among the most hyped, but not necessarily most critical updates Microsoft released for its April Patch Tuesday this week was a fix for the Badlock vulnerability.
04/14/2016
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The world's largest social network aims to become more intelligent as Facebook calls on attendees at its annual F8 developers conference to build bots.
04/14/2016
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News
Microsoft announced some OneDrive for Business improvements coming this week and later this year.
04/13/2016
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News
Microsoft gave notice this week that Exchange Server 2007 will be falling out of support in less than a year.
04/13/2016
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News
Microsoft explained a bit more this week how its Edge Web browser will enable access without passwords.
04/12/2016
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News
Microsoft signaled the end of support today for its SQL Server 2005 product.
04/12/2016
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While supporting a competing device may be puzzling, Microsoft may have a good reason for doing so.
04/12/2016
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In-Depth
There's a slow way and a fast way to get this task done. Always go with the fast way.
04/12/2016
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In-Depth
Reduce duplicate data and free up space quickly with this Windows Server feature.
04/12/2016
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News
Microsoft now has a Windows 10 resource page describing current and future capabilities of the operating system.
04/11/2016
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News
Microsoft announced on Friday that Window 10 version 1511 had transitioned from a "current branch" (CB) release to a "current branch for business" (CBB) release.
04/11/2016
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Microsoft's improbable partnership with the open source platform continues, as the company sets its aim for more Linux integration among its products and services.
04/11/2016
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The release of the Power BI Embedded SDK represents Microsoft's latest move to make its analytics and dashboard reporting capability more pervasive by extending it to other applications.
04/08/2016
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The easiest way to accomplish this task is to modify the individual disk attributes.
04/08/2016
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News
Microsoft's Office news this week includes new "Calendar Apps" for Outlook, plus the rollout of Delve Analytics.
04/08/2016
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News
Microsoft inched away from Adobe Flash this week with a new "auto-pause" capability that's available in preview with the Microsoft Edge browser.
04/07/2016
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News
Microsoft is now selling its Cloud App Security service.
04/07/2016
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News
Microsoft indicated late last week that it will build Hyper-V containers natively into Windows 10.
04/06/2016
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News
Microsoft today released a preview of its Windows 10 "anniversary update" to early testers.
04/06/2016
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News
More than 38 percent of organizations have upgraded to the latest System Center Configuration Manager update release, Microsoft reported today.
04/05/2016
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If you are constantly getting a message to repair a damaged file in PowerPoint, here's a possible solution.
04/05/2016