Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
Microsoft is continuing to nudge users toward saving more in the cloud with its latest move to make OneDrive and SharePoint Online the default location for Office 365 apps.
Microsoft's cloud businesses and Surface grew solidly during its Q2 FY19, while Windows OEM and Office Consumer products slowed, in part, due to chip supply issues.
Office 365, Dynamics 365, Azure Government Cloud impacted by authentication issue.
Microsoft's latest Windows 10 19H1 (1903) test build is light on new features, and heavy on fixes -- which is expected as it rolls toward completion.
Email issues have plagued a number of Microsoft 365/Office 365 users in Europe for an entire day, and information on what's happening from Microsoft has been sparse.
Mac users can now download the suite of Microsoft's Office 365 apps from the Mac App Store for free, but a subscription is required for full use.
Microsoft is moving to take over more Azure services billing and subscription management through its Microsoft Customer Agreement starting in March 2019.
Seven new Windows 10 PCs, priced between $189 and $320, plus a new Microsoft Classroom Pen made exclusively for the education market, are among Microsoft's big bets for BETT 2019.
Microsoft's 315 pages of release notes about its coming April '19 updates for its various Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform tools details what's coming next from Microsoft on the ERP, CRM and HCM fronts.
Microsoft will no longer provide free security updates or hotfixes for Windows 10 Mobile after December 10, 2019, and recommends users go with Android or iOS. (Yes, really.)
'Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power platform on top of what we’re doing with Azure is the core of what we are doing as a company,' says CEO Satya Nadella.
Microsoft has continued to waffle around how exactly it plans to position Cortana. But CEO Satya Nadella gave the clearest explanation so far: Cortana will be a skill, not a head-to-head competitor with Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri.
Microsoft's Bing Ads is now the exclusive search-ad provider for Verizon Media, which includes Yahoo and AOL properties.
Microsoft's newest Windows 10 19H1 build, No. 18317, separates the unified Microsoft search feature from Cortana, as had been widely rumored and expected.
Microsoft could potentially show off its next version of its HoloLens mixed-reality goggles at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of February, given a press invitation to an event there.
Cloud
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Productivity
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Enterprise Software
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Security
Microsoft is privately testing 'Bali,' a way to give users control of data collected about them