-
The race to roll out a driverless car against Apple, Microsoft and IBM has accelerated with 100 Chrysler Pacifica minivans to be developed with Google technology this year.
05/04/2016
-
Microsoft looks to have realized that the user experience is at the center of collaboration with its new common developer framework for SharePoint 2016 and Office 365.
05/04/2016
-
News
SharePoint Server 2016 and Office Online Server have reached "general availability" status as of May 4.
05/03/2016
-
News
Microsoft's Internet browsers will stop trusting Web sites using SHA-1 certificates for security, starting this summer.
05/02/2016
-
As the SharePoint community awaits whatever surprises Microsoft has in store this week when it outlines the future of its storied collaboration platform, the company has already indicated it will include long-awaited improvements to the user experience.
05/02/2016
-
In-Depth
The first major update of Windows 10 will make better use of digital ink, add intelligence and extensibility to Cortana, extend Hello biometric authentication in the Edge browser, and run the Linux Bash Shell from Ubuntu, among numerous other features coming this summer.
05/02/2016
-
News
Microsoft today announced that its next SQL Server version will hit general availability status on June 1.
05/02/2016
-
Money won't be part of Microsoft's contribution to this Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer, which is a departure from past practice.
05/02/2016
-
In-Depth
The release of SharePoint 2016 means those wedded to InfoPath and SharePoint Designer may need new tools for building or extending workflows into their applications but even this firm's preferred software has limitations.
05/01/2016
-
News
Microsoft plans to move its Intune Service Health mobile management dashboard into its Office 365 management portal.
04/29/2016
-
News
Microsoft announced a public preview of its PowerApps developer tools solutions today, plus a new Microsoft Flow component.
04/29/2016
-
Microsoft, Google and IBM and other major IT providers saw their businesses perform worse than expected last quarter but Apple took the hardest fall in 13 years.
04/29/2016
-
News
Microsoft announced some mobile application management progress this week for its Intune service.
04/28/2016
-
News
Microsoft today announced that Technical Preview 5 for both Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 can now be downloaded and tested.
04/27/2016
-
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
-
Microsoft offers rich e-mail auditing capabilities for Exchange Online but third-party tools may offer more detailed and customizable reports.
04/27/2016
-
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
-
News
Microsoft today turned on a new "external groups" collaboration feature in its Yammer enterprise social networking service.
04/26/2016
-
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
-
In-Depth
Tapping hybrid SharePoint capabilities involves making some configuration changes and meeting certain software requirements, according to an expert.
04/25/2016
-
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
-
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
-
Windows Server 2012's most annoying feature can be bypassed -- just not in the way that you would expect.
04/25/2016
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
The company's founder said its DCOS offering is for 'Apps Running at Datacenter Scale.'
04/21/2016
-
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
-
Intel is reorganizing to focus on the datacenter, cloud infrastructure, smart computing devices, IoT and hybrid tablet PCs.
04/20/2016
-
Orders demanding access to customer data without their knowledge is too widespread and should be restricted, according to Bill Gates.
04/20/2016
-
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
-
News
Microsoft is continuing to issue consumer Skype bot client previews, adding new Mac and Web client support this week.
04/19/2016
-
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
-
News
In a blog posted on Friday, Microsoft announced that the final release candidate for SQL Server 2016 is now available.
04/19/2016
-
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
-
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
-
News
Microsoft is previewing Skype voice and video communications using its Edge browser without the use of browser plug-ins.
04/15/2016
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
News
The popularity of Office 365 applications and services among organizations remains high, according to new survey results.
04/14/2016
-
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
-
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
-
News
Microsoft announced some OneDrive for Business improvements coming this week and later this year.
04/13/2016
-
News
Microsoft gave notice this week that Exchange Server 2007 will be falling out of support in less than a year.
04/13/2016
-
News
Microsoft explained a bit more this week how its Edge Web browser will enable access without passwords.
04/12/2016
-
News
Microsoft signaled the end of support today for its SQL Server 2005 product.
04/12/2016
-
Posey's Tips & Tricks
While supporting a competing device may be puzzling, Microsoft may have a good reason for doing so.
04/12/2016