Aimed at top-tier Microsoft 365 subscribers, the Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office solution became available for public preview this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2020
While not scheduled for release until this fall, the next major update to Windows 10 is available for testing now, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2020
Microsoft has quietly changed the name of its Microsoft Forms Pro survey solution to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2020
Microsoft is promising to communicate better with organizations dealing with Azure service issues, including being more transparent about Azure service outages.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 18, 2020
Microsoft this week announced key dates related to its support for the Internet Explorer 11 browser and the "legacy" (EdgeHTML) version of the Microsoft Edge browser.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 17, 2020
The Surface Duo, designed as both a phone and a pocket-sized computer for Microsoft 365 and Android applications, will be released on Sept. 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 12, 2020
Microsoft has joined a high-powered group of tech giants in a new industry foundation aimed at improving the security of open source software.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 04, 2020
A deal between Microsoft and Beijing-based ByteDance is in the works that would have Microsoft acquiring some of ByteDance's holdings in the TikTok social media service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2020
Microsoft may be promoting Cortana more as a Microsoft 365 business perk, but the digital assistant will soon see several of its capabilities falling out of support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2020
Tasks in Teams, which pulls together information from Microsoft task-creation apps like Planner and To Do, has started rolling out to "a small group" of Microsoft 365 users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 30, 2020
Microsoft this week announced the general availability of two new capabilities in its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2020
Organizations will soon be able to keep their Microsoft Teams Rooms products patched and trouble-free via new Standard and Premium subscription options.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2020
Microsoft is talking up a "low-code data platform" called Microsoft Dataflex that promises to deliver native integration between Teams and Microsoft Power Platform tools.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2020
Microsoft is readying some new policy enhancements to its Insider Risk Management service for Microsoft 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 24, 2020
A revamped Azure Stack HCI product that runs its own operating system, known as "version 20H2," is now available as a preview release.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2020
Microsoft announced the public preview of its Universal Print service for Microsoft 365 subscribers on Tuesday, the start of this year's Inspire partner conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 21, 2020
The new Yammer Conversations Web Part for companywide chats is now generally available for SharePoint Online users, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 20, 2020
Microsoft is reportedly working on another virtual desktop infrastructure solution that's separate from its current Windows Virtual Desktop product and similar services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 20, 2020
Citrix will use Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud services provider, while Microsoft will promote Citrix Workspace as a "preferred digital workspace solution."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 15, 2020
Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of the Microsoft Secure Score service within the Microsoft 365 Security Center portal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2020