Microsoft has confirmed that its Microsoft 365 apps and Teams services were down for some users on Wednesday night.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 21, 2022
For the third year in a row, Microsoft's Inspire conference, the marquee partner event of the year, was a relatively low-key virtual affair.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 20, 2022
Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure, a joint venture between Microsoft and Oracle, is now generally available.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 20, 2022
Microsoft unveiled a new partner group at Inspire on Tuesday aimed at driving benefits and incentives toward partners participating in the Azure Space program.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 19, 2022
Microsoft took the wraps off a new intelligent contact center platform on Tuesday as part of its Microsoft Inspire 2022 virtual partner conference.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 19, 2022
There are three key ways partners can facilitate their customers' digital transformations, according to Microsoft -- and, not surprisingly, they all center around the Azure cloud.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 19, 2022
Microsoft kicked off Inspire on Tuesday with a laundry list of improvements aimed at enhancing how users collaborate across the company's software and services offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2022
Microsoft broke down current enterprise security needs and pointed to collaboration being the key to meeting them during the opening day of its Inspire virtual partner event on Tuesday.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 19, 2022
According to a report this week, Microsoft may be changing the timeline for its Windows OS version release, switching to a new release every three years.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 15, 2022
Microsoft on Thursday announced a small reorg of its partner executive ranks, culminating a process that began when former channel chief Rodney Clark announced his departure two months ago.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 14, 2022
Microsoft on Wednesday released a preview of its server protection capabilities for Microsoft Defender for Business.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2022
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will no longer be supporting SQL Server 2012
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2022
The U.K.'s leading consumer regulatory organization, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), announced on Wednesday that it's looking into the pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc by Microsoft.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 06, 2022
The creator of PowerShell Jeffrey Snover is leaving Microsoft at the end of the week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2022
Starting in January 2023 the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) will be shifting gears and launching as a nonprofit organization.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2022
Microsoft announced it won't block automatic renewals of monthly cloud services accounts for those with an older plan overseen by Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2022
High-achieving security partners are getting a spotlight of their own at this year's Microsoft Partner of the Year awards.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 28, 2022
Kaseya's $6.2 billion acquisition of Datto, in the works for two years, is now complete, taking Datto from a publicly traded company to a private one.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 23, 2022
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Version 2 of Microsoft's "Responsible AI Standard" document, which includes a disclosed a use-case approval process for its Azure Face API, Computer Vision, and Video Indexer customers, was released this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2022
More than 30 tech organizations have come together to form the Metaverse Standards Forum, which will work towards standardizing requirements for future metaverse tech.
- By David Ramel
- June 22, 2022