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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
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News
Microsoft gave a progress report this week on its relatively new Edge browser.
04/05/2016
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Plus: Parallels Remote Application Server bolsters UI and security; Docker Datacenter suite released.
04/05/2016
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Office 365 updates announced at last week's Build Conference include features that should be welcome by both IT pros and developers.
04/04/2016
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News
Microsoft's SQL Server engineering team wants IT pros to keep up with cumulative update installations.
04/04/2016
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Microsoft's Windows 10-based HoloLens computer is now available for developers as the company emphasizes how holographic computing can transform industries ranging from space exploration to medical research and computer-aided design.
04/04/2016
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Windows Insider
The company wants all your devices to work in harmony, with Windows at the heart.
04/04/2016
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News
The DevOps message was in force this week at Microsoft's Build event.
04/01/2016
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Microsoft MVP Vlad Catrinescu gives us a thorough grounding on how to think about Microsoft's newest collaboration server.
04/01/2016
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News
Microsoft had more developer news on Day 2 of its Build event, this time mostly focused on its Azure cloud computing resources.
03/31/2016
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Scott Guthrie kicked off the second day of Microsoft's Build conference by announcing that its newly acquired Xamarin tooling for cross platform .NET development will be free and the company will contribute its core platform to .NET Foundation.
03/31/2016
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Microsoft is making progress in streamlining tasks for Office 365 administrators.
03/31/2016
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News
Microsoft explained a little more about its support for the Bash shell on Windows, as unveiled during its Build keynote talk on Wednesday.
03/30/2016
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In the opening session of this year's annual Build Conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed tools and a new framework that aims to make conversational computing using artificial intelligence and machine learning pervasive.
03/30/2016
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News
Microsoft today confirmed that a major Windows 10 feature update will be arriving this summer, although the preview is available today.
03/30/2016
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In-Depth
A more resilient Storage Spaces in the forthcoming Windows Server 2016 gives software-defined storage a major boost, promising to usher in more intelligent converged infrastructure.
03/30/2016
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News
Microsoft is broadening the availability of Office 365 Connectors, its feature for end users that's designed to facilitate connecting services and newsfeeds to Office 365 Groups.
03/29/2016
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In-Depth
The new SharePoint release shares more properties with Office 365 than ever. Perhaps the most welcome new feature is the ability to search for files running both on-premises and in the cloud. Learn how to implement hybrid search.
03/29/2016
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Microsoft reportedly is weighing a significant investment that would help private equity investors fund the acquisition of Yahoo's core search and Internet assets.
03/28/2016