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Mary Jo Foley

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). She also is the cohost of the "Windows Weekly" podcast on the TWiT network. Got a tip? Send her an email with your rants, rumors, tips and tattles. Confidentiality guaranteed.

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Android Subsystem for Windows placeholder app appears in the Microsoft Store

Microsoft Insider testers may get to try out the Android Subsystem for Windows sooner rather than later, based on the existence of a placeholder app in the Microsoft Store.

September 3, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 11

Microsoft makes Windows 10 21H2 and Windows 11 previews available for commercial testing

Microsoft is making previews of both Windows 10 21H2 and Windows 11 available to business customers for testing and validation ahead of their fall launches. Here's how to test these now.

September 2, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10

Microsoft moves Windows Insiders on Dev Channel to a new Windows 11 branch

With Windows 11 Build 22449, Microsoft is starting to test features in its Dev Channel that won't be part of the fall release of Windows 11.

September 2, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 11

Microsoft announces its fall Surface event for September 22

Microsoft is ready to take the wraps off new Surface hardware, likely including its Surface Duo 2 Android device, on September 22, just ahead of the launch of Windows 11.

September 1, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in PCs

Whatever happened to Hyper-V Server and other Windows Server 2022 questions

Windows Server 2022 is officially now generally available. Here are a few questions and answers about the newest Windows Server release.

September 1, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows

Windows 11: Microsoft is moving Insider testers back to Windows 10 if their PCs are deemed ineligible

Windows Insiders who've been testing Windows 11 on hardware deemed ineligible by Microsoft are being moved back to Windows 10.

September 1, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 11

Microsoft rolls out more fixes and a new 'Microsoft 365' widget in latest Windows 11 test build release

Microsoft Dev and Beta testers are getting another new widget as part of its latest Windows Insider test build of Windows 11.

August 27, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 11

Microsoft leaves a loophole for those wanting to run Windows 11 on 'unsupported' hardware

For tech-savvy users who really want to run Windows 11 on older and officially unsupported hardware, there will be a way.

August 27, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 11

Microsoft Windows and Surface Chief Panay added to Senior Leadership Team

Microsoft's Chief Product Officer Panos Panay is now part of CEO Satya Nadella's inner circle of advisors, another signal that Microsoft is giving the Windows business more visibility and prominence (again).

August 25, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows

Microsoft will no longer allow Chromebook users to install native Android Office apps

Starting in mid-September, Microsoft will be advising Chromebook users who want to run Office to use the web-based Office apps and will no longer enable them to run the native Office Android apps.

August 25, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Productivity

Microsoft's Windows Server 2022 is rolling out to mainstream users

Microsoft's next version of Windows Server, designated as a Long Term Servicing Channel Release, is now available to customers.

August 20, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Servers

Microsoft delivers new Windows 11 test build and first Windows 11 ISOs

Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 test build alongside its first official Windows 11 ISOs. It also has released a first test build of the updated Windows 11 clock app.

August 19, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 11

Microsoft to increase Microsoft 365, Office 365 commercial prices in March 2022

Microsoft's first 'substantive' price increase for many of its commercial Office 365/Microsoft 365 subscription plans is coming next March. Here's the new price list.

August 19, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Productivity

Microsoft hires former Uber exec in effort to grow its Teams consumer business

Microsoft is adding a consumer-app expert, Manik Gupta, to its management roster as part of an effort to grow share for Teams Consumer, Skype and GroupMe.

August 17, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft protests Amazon's $10 billion NSA cloud contract win

Microsoft and AWS are fighting over yet another $10 billion cloud contract. This time it's NSA's secret intelligence-data contract that's in the crosshairs.

August 12, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

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