Microsoft on Tuesday announced a major, cloud-oriented streamlining of the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) competencies that it uses to identify and validate the expertise of its partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 13, 2016
The team behind Microsoft Edge recently explained how the browser works with Windows 10's "Windows Hello" feature to let users access Web sites without passwords.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2016
Tuesday marked the end of SQL Server 2005's "extended support" phase, meaning Microsoft's 10-year-old database server will no longer get patch support from the company.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2016
Microsoft's "Project Madeira," a new, cloud-based business application that's built on the company's Dynamics NAV platform, is now available as a public preview for U.S. organizations.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 12, 2016
A new Windows 10 resource page from Microsoft gives some insight on current capabilities of the operating system, as well as features currently in development.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2016
Microsoft has upgraded build 1511 of Windows 10, which was originally issued to testers last November, from a "current branch" (CB) release to a "current branch for business" (CBB) release.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2016
Microsoft recently unveiled Power BI Embedded in a bid to draw developers, primarily independent software vendors (ISVs), to its cloud-based business intelligence tool.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 08, 2016
Microsoft this week announced enhancements to its Office suite that leverage some recently acquired technologies aimed at improving users' personal time management.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2016
Microsoft's Cloud App Security service became generally available on Wednesday, enabling customers to track the use of Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) applications within their organization.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday released a new Windows 10 test build that includes previews of features coming in this summer's Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" (code-named "Redstone 1").
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2016
In updating its System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) product more frequently to accommodate the Windows 10 operating system, Microsoft acknowledged that it has now "turned ConfigMgr into a service."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2016
Eight months after its release, Microsoft's Edge browser is currently activated on 150 million devices, Microsoft said Monday at its Edge Web Summit event in San Francisco.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 05, 2016
At the opening keynote of Microsoft's inaugural Envision conference in New Orleans, the spotlight was on HoloLens and how Microsoft sees the virtual reality technology transforming a wide swath of industries.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 04, 2016
Microsoft fired another volley against cloud rival Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) at its Build conference last week, announcing the preview release of its new Azure Functions service.
- By David Ramel
- April 04, 2016
Microsoft announced several developments related to its Azure cloud computing resources during Build this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2016
Microsoft made several moves to strengthen its open source bona fides during this week's Build conference, announcing support for the Bash shell on Windows and open-sourcing the core Xamarin platform.
- By Kurt Mackie, Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 31, 2016
At Microsoft's Build conference on Wednesday, CEO Satya Nadella laid out his company's vision for the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 30, 2016
The first of two major Windows 10 updates, code-named "Redstone," will become generally available this summer, Microsoft announced Wednesday at its Build conference in San Francisco.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 30, 2016
Since arriving at Dropbox from Microsoft just eight months ago, Thomas Hansen has put in motion a channel program that's on pace to bring on thousands of new resellers and solution integration partners.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 30, 2016
Microsoft's Office 365 Groups service will soon have a new "Connectors" feature that will link end users with third-party services and newsfeeds.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2016