February 22, 2017
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]
February 10, 2017
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]
February 3, 2017
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]
January 27, 2017
Via: CIOMicrosoft’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 […]
January 20, 2017
Via: CIOWhen 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 […]
January 11, 2017
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]
January 6, 2017
Via: The Next WebWe 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. […]
January 4, 2017
Via: CIOMicrosoft’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 […]
January 3, 2017
Via: The Next WebWhen 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 […]
December 21, 2016
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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, […]
December 15, 2016
Via: CIOTwo 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 […]
December 14, 2016
Via: CIOIs 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 […]
December 9, 2016
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]
November 28, 2016
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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, […]
November 24, 2016
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]
November 22, 2016
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]
November 8, 2016
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]
October 27, 2016
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]
October 26, 2016
Via: The Next WebSlack 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 […]
October 12, 2016
Via: CIOMicrosoft 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 […]