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Microsoft still plans to ship two Windows 10 upgrades in 2017

February 22, 2017

Via: CIO

Microsoft this month reaffirmed that it will issue two Windows 10 upgrades this year, twice the number of 2016 but still shy of the firm’s original target. In a presentation 11 days ago at a Microsoft technical conference held in […]


BI Users, IT Team

Microsoft hasn’t moved the Windows 10 needle in months

February 10, 2017

Via: CIO

Microsoft has been stuck on the 400 million mark for Windows 10 for more than four months, as the head of the company’s operating systems group yesterday repeated the milestone when he spoke to developers. “We now have over 400 […]


BI Users, Business Users

Microsoft asks Trump administration for travel ban exceptions

February 3, 2017

Via: CIO

Microsoft today asked the U.S. government to create a mechanism for granting exemptions to last week’s executive order on immigration that would meet “the pressing needs of real people,” including scores of company employees and their families. In the letter […]


BI Users, Business Users

Cloud growth continues to boost Microsoft’s financials

January 27, 2017

Via: CIO

Microsoft’s focus on the cloud continues to pay off. The tech titan showed growth across all its cloud-based businesses during the last quarter ended Dec. 31, including Office, Dynamics and Azure. Reporting financial results for its fiscal second quarter on […]


BI Users, Business Users

Microsoft kills Cache, its note-taking experiment with Evernote-Google Keep aspirations

January 20, 2017

Via: CIO

When Microsoft launched its Cache note-taking experiment last year, we hoped it could become Microsoft’s version of Google Keep, if Microsoft devoted enough resources to it. Sadly, that’s not the case. In a note to users, Microsoft said Thursday that […]


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Microsoft drops a pay-as-you-go Azure cloud option

January 11, 2017

Via: CIO

Microsoft is shifting its licensing for its Azure cloud service, eliminating the pay-as-you-go option for new Azure customers using MPSA (Microsoft Products and Services Agreement) as of February 1. Instead, they will be steered toward the company’s CSP (Cloud Solution […]


BI Users, IT Team

Here’s your first look at Windows 10’s upcoming design overhaul

January 6, 2017

Via: The Next Web

We heard last November that Microsoft was working to overhaul its design language for Windows 10’s interface as well as for first- and third-party apps on the platform. Now, MSPoweruser has obtained leaked images of that program, dubbed Project NEON. […]


BI Users, IT Team

Microsoft’s browsers may have hit rock bottom

January 4, 2017

Via: CIO

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge browsers may be near the bottom of their unprecedented crash in user share, measurements show. Analytics vendor Net Applications reported that the user share of IE and Edge — an estimate of the proportion […]


BI Users, IT Team

Windows 10 Creators Update will reportedly arrive in April

January 3, 2017

Via: The Next Web

When Microsoft announced its upcoming Creators Update for Windows 10 last October, the company didn’t say when in 2017 users would be able to get their hands on it, along with new features for 3D content creation, game broadcasting and […]


BI Users, Business Users

How Microsoft rebounded to outshine Apple

December 21, 2016

Via: CIO

Microsoft claims that more people are switching to Surface devices from Macs than ever before. That’s a concept that would have been hard to picture when Microsoft first released the Microsoft Surface RT and Surface Pro in 2012 and 2013, […]


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Win-win: Open source .Net pays off for devs

December 15, 2016

Via: CIO

Two years ago Microsoft did the unthinkable: It declared it would open-source its .Net server-side cloud stack with the introduction of .Net Core. The announcement was surprising, thanks to Microsoft’s long-running feuds with open source projects, as well as its […]


Software & Systems

Microsoft: We will democratize AI

December 14, 2016

Via: CIO

Is artificial intelligence and conversational computing the next great frontier in IT? Microsoft believes so; the company is bullish on AI and is doubling down on opportunities it sees for the technology. At an event in San Francisco, Microsoft paraded […]


BI Users, IT Team

For a price, Microsoft will extend support for Windows Server, SQL Server 6 more years

December 9, 2016

Via: CIO

Microsoft today added a new licensing option for Windows Server and SQL Server that extends support by six years, for a total of 16 years of vulnerability patches. Called “Premium Assurance,” the six-year support addendum will be available for Windows […]


Software & Systems

Microsoft’s UWP toolkit shows signs of life

November 28, 2016

Via: CIO

Microsoft has faced issues in gaining acceptance of its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for developing Windows apps to run on multiple form factors. But the company nonetheless is forging on with tooling advancements for UWP. With UWP Community Toolkit 1.2, […]


BI Users

Microsoft’s reported LinkedIn concessions don’t amount to much

November 24, 2016

Via: CIO

Microsoft has faced a tough battle getting its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn approved in Europe. Salesforce has challenged the move on competitive grounds, and the EU competition authority has reached out to a number of competitors for comment. Now […]


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Why a cross-platform Microsoft is good for your business

November 22, 2016

Via: CIO

Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member. Google is joining not just the .NET foundation but the steering committee, alongside RedHat and Samsung, which is supporting .NET code on all of its Tizen devices, from smart TVs […]


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Microsoft postpones Windows anti-exploit tool’s retirement

November 8, 2016

Via: CIO

Microsoft last week announced that it would support the Enterprise Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) through July 2018, a year-and-a-half extension for the anti-exploit utility. At the same time, the Redmond, Wash. company dismissed EMET as a behind-the-times tool, and again […]


Software & Systems

Microsoft unveils Creative Update and the Surface Studio

October 27, 2016

Via: CIO

Microsoft yesterday announced a slew of software and app updates, as well as both improved and entirely new hardware devices. While rumors have floated around about the next Windows 10 update from Microsoft, suggesting it would carry the name “Redstone […]


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‘Microsoft Teams’ is the next Slack competitor (probably)

October 26, 2016

Via: The Next Web

Slack took workplace conversation by storm, and after Facebook just released its take on the concept, now Microsoft is looking to for its own piece of the market. A report by MSPoweruser suggests that the company is set to unveil […]


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Buggy Windows 7 cumulative update? Just tell us, says Microsoft

October 12, 2016

Via: CIO

Microsoft has told business customers that when they run into problems with Windows 7’s new patch maintenance regime they should file a ticket with the company’s support desk. But a pair of patch experts doubt that that — or Microsoft’s […]