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Microsoft releases first Windows Server 19H1 test build

The first new test build for the next version of Windows Server 1903 is available for download by Insider testers.

November 26, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10

Microsoft details the causes of its recent multi-factor authentication meltdown

Microsoft has posted a root cause analysis of the multifactor authentication issue which hit a number of its customers worldwide last week. Here's what happened.

November 26, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft acquires FSLogix in name of improving Office 365 virtualization

Microsoft is buying its former partner FSLogix and plans to use its technology to improve the virtualization of Office 365 applications.

November 19, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Virtualization

Microsoft Azure, Office 365 users hit by multi-factor authentication issue

Unable to sign into your Microsoft Office 365, Azure Active Directory and other services? A global Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) issue may be the reason.

November 19, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft investigated adding banner advertisements to the Windows 10 Mail and Calendar apps

Microsoft is continuing to look to banner advertising as a way to monetize Windows. But it seems Windows 10's built-in Mail and Calendar apps are unlikely to be the next place these ads show up.

November 16, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10

Making sense of Microsoft's approach to AI

Microsoft has a master plan for trying to get more customers to jump into the AI waters. Here's an attempt to explain how containers, accelerators, and APIs all figure in.

November 15, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft's new Windows 10 19H1 test build adds new light theme, more updating and printing options

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 test build, No. 18282, adds a new fully light theme, more updating, printing and snipping options and more tweaks.

November 14, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10

Microsoft acquires AI and bot development house XOXCO

Microsoft is acquiring XOXCO, a conversational-AI development firm known for its Howdy.ai bot tools for Slack.

November 14, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft re-releases Windows Server 2019

Microsoft is starting up again its rollout of its Windows 10 1809/Windows Server 2019 feature releases on November 13. Here's what is -- and isn't -- happening starting today.

November 13, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10

Microsoft is working on a Google G Suite to Office 365 migration toolset

Microsoft is readying tools to help customers migrate from G Suite to Office 365 which could be available by the second quarter of 2019.

November 12, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft to start shipping Surface Go tablets with built-in LTE on November 20

Microsoft soon will be selling both consumer and commercial models of the LTE versions of its smallest Surface devices, the Surface Go.

November 12, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Mobility

As Microsoft moves more blogs off its MSDN and TechNet sites, here's how to stay current

Finding Microsoft-authored product and strategy information is becoming increasingly challenging. Here are a few resources that might help.

November 9, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Microsoft

Windows 10 users seeing their erroneous product-activation issues resolved

Microsoft's back-end activation issues which caused a number of Windows users to get false product-activation-error messages seems to be nearly fixed.

November 8, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10