Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
Microsoft is building more industry-specific and role-based features into Teams, as well as adding more meeting capabilities and AI-powered options to the anchor of its Office 365 suite.
Microsoft is both refining and expanding its unified search mission, so as to deliver a single smart search box across Windows 10, Office, Bing, Edge and more.
Microsoft's self-defined 'commercial cloud' bucket just got bigger, with the inclusion of a significant portion of LinkedIn revenues added to the metric.
Microsoft and Amazon are working together to bring Skype calling to Alexa-powered devices, which brings into question, again, where Microsoft is going with Cortana.
Microsoft's latest version of its Windows Admin Center, designed for managing the coming Windows Server 2019 release, is already available for download.
Microsoft is adding new Dynamics 365 AI-infused applications, plus two mixed-reality Dynamics 365 applications, to the family with the coming October 2018 Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP releases.
The rumors were true: Microsoft's MMD service, which officially starts rolling out today, is a subscription service via which Microsoft provisions, deploys and manages companies' Windows 10 devices.
Microsoft is planning to bring its Cosmos DB NoSQL database to its hybrid-computing and secure microcontroller platforms as part of its 'intelligent cloud, intelligent edge' strategy.
Microsoft will be crediting customers affected by its September 4 cloud outage and will work to improve its cloud storage resiliency, according to its preliminary analysis of the incident.
Three months after acquiring GitHub, Microsoft is rebranding and repositioning its VSTS coding collaboration service as 'Azure DevOps,'
Microsoft also rolled out to testers yet another new Fast Ring test build of its October 2018 Update.
Microsoft's latest Windows 10 19H1 Skip Ahead build, No. 18234, adds a bunch of minor updates and fixes, but still no major new features.
Cortana- and Alexa-powered devices soon will enable users to control many of their Xbox One console activities using their voice.
Microsoft is stepping up its Windows 7 migration campaign with a paid security update option, Desktop App Assure service and more.
Microsoft is extending its support window for Office 365 ProPlus on some Windows variants, as well as Office 2016's ability to continue to work with Office 365.
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