Tag: Microsoft

September 14, 2023

Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in how to manage open source development at scale. With millions of users and thousands of potential contributors, the company’s project maintainers have problems that most open source projects […]

February 28, 2023

The chatbots did their job. They inspired awe, mockery and even some fear. Most importantly, they drew attention. Front-page headlines, cover stories and word of mouth caused millions to try them, leading businesses and developers to ask how they could […]

June 28, 2022

In an effort to push past doubts cast by rival firms, data lake provider Databricks on Tuesday said that it is open sourcing all Delta Lake APIs as part of the Delta Lake 2.0 release. The company also announced that […]

July 8, 2021

Understanding what you will change is most important to achieve a long-lasting and successful robotic process automation transformation. There are three pillars that will be most impacted by the change: people, process and digital workers (also referred to as robots). […]

November 5, 2020

Much discussion about the digital workplace in recent months has been about tools and platforms organizations should put in place to enable the millions of workers now obliged to work remotely. However, with so many people across the organization using […]

October 19, 2020

Earlier this month, Microsoft 365 users were unable to log in to multiple Microsoft 365 services that use Azure Active Directory, including Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Office.com, Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Users already logged in were unaffected and the services […]

August 25, 2020

John “Kanen” Flowers is a tech industry archetype. A self-styled hacker and coder, he worked for Microsoft in the early 1990s before becoming a serial entrepreneur. He created one of the Internet era’s first personalized news sites, a network security […]

August 24, 2020

When it came to analytics services, I wrote off Microsoft long ago. At the time it was vying with Google for internet supremacy among consumers, as an attempted extension of its ubiquitous operating software, Windows. Time has passed. And while […]

March 16, 2020

Workers at America’s largest companies are not covered under a bill passed by the House of Representatives on Friday that is supposed to support American workers impacted by the spread of the novel coronavirus. The bill still has to be […]

February 14, 2020

SharePoint Hybrid is a configuration and feature set that enables users in SharePoint on-premises environments to take advantage of SharePoint Online functionality. It also enables users to access content in both the SharePoint Online and on-premises environments from a single […]

February 12, 2020

Collaborate anywhere, anytime, any way with Microsoft Surface Hub 2S and Steelcase Roam Everybody knows collaboration fuels innovation — you can’t create good ideas without it. Leaders recognize this and are expecting teams to step up. While many people truly […]

August 27, 2019

When Stewart Butterfield, chief executive of workplace messaging service Slack, flew to New York City for his company’s public stock market debut in June, he didn’t just bring his leadership team and some key customers to help celebrate. He also […]

May 10, 2019

The most groundbreaking announcements to come out of Microsoft’s Build conference, held here this week, don’t just impact the 6,000 developers in attendance. They’re also relevant to the more than 24 million front-line workers out there who can now be […]

April 8, 2019

Back in December, Microsoft surprised everyone – those who hadn’t been following the rumors, anyway – by announcing it was shifting Edge to Google’s ubiquitous Chromium platform. Chromium promises better and faster support for constantly evolving web standards. You can […]

September 19, 2018

Augmented reality is frequently predicted to be a major game changer, more so than virtual reality in the evolution of technology. But aside from smartphone-based apps such as Pokemon Go, and Google Translate, which can instantly translate street signs in […]

July 12, 2018

It’s not secret Slack has dominated workplace communication among tech companies the last few years, but Microsoft began to fight back when it introduced Teams back in 2016. There was just one problem: Teams didn’t have a free option. That […]

May 15, 2018

The average enterprise deploys more than 1,100 cloud services, according to Netskope. And that number is only going to increase. A survey of 500 IT decision makers by VansonBourne and Gigamon found that 73% of respondents expect to move the […]

May 4, 2017

Microsoft may have stuck to its script Tuesday when it unveiled a Windows 10 spin-off aimed at the K-12 educational market, but the new operating system will be enticing to businesses as well, analysts said today. “They were very focused […]

April 14, 2017

Microsoft Edge’s improvements with the Windows 10 Creators Update may finally make it a browser worth talking about. It debuted to shrugs with the original Windows 10 and saw incremental improvements with the Anniversary Update. Edge is still catching up to Google […]

March 9, 2017

It was unclear today exactly what kind of edge Microsoft might gain by partnering with Qualcomm and others to run Windows Server on ARM processors, an analyst said. “Microsoft must see something that is interesting enough to port over Azure […]