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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.

Latest Posts

Microsoft invests in General Motors' self-driving subsidiary Cruise

Microsoft is touting GM and its autonomous vehicle subsidiary Cruise as adopting Azure as their 'preferred' cloud provider.

2 days ago by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft touts more Windows 10 PCs, some with LTE options, at BettFest education show

Microsoft is touting low-priced, third-party LTE-connected Windows 10 PCs at this year's BettfFest education conference.

2 days ago by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10

Microsoft's Azure marketing chief Julia White joins SAP

In the second Microsoft-to-SAP-related hiring announcement of the week, Azure Marketing Corporate VP Julia White is moving to SAP to become Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer.

January 15, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Windows 10X: Microsoft's 'cloud-powered' Chrome OS competitor inches closer

A new Windows 10X leak shows the Windows 10 variant is still on track to look a lot like Chtome OS. But the OS itself may matter less than the 'cloud-powered' service that will complement it.

January 14, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10

Microsoft debuts its second 'vertical cloud': Microsoft Cloud for Retail

Microsoft's new retail cloud bundle is its second vertical cloud offering, following on the heels of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.

January 13, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft moves closer to running all of its own services on Azure

A decade ago, Microsoft officials said the company planned to move Office 365 to Azure. Microsoft finally seems to be closing in on its goal of having all first-party services hosted on Azure.

January 12, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson is leaving Microsoft for Qualtrics

Microsoft 365 big-wig Brad Anderson is leaving Microsoft for Qualtrics; CVP of M365 Security and Compliance Harv Bhela is taking his place.

January 11, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Productivity

Microsoft takes the wraps off Surface Pro 7+ for business, education users

Microsoft's Surface Pro 7+, which adds 11th-generation Core Intel chips, LTE as an option and performance updates in the traditional Surface Pro 2-in-1 packaging, starts shipping later this week.

January 11, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in PCs

Microsoft adds 'news and interests' feature to Windows 10 taskbar in latest Insider test release

Microsoft is testing a news feed app that will be available directly from the Taskbar in the latest Windows 10 Insider Dev Channel test build.

January 6, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10

Microsoft's Azure Modular Datacenter: What's 'special clouds' got to do with it?

Microsoft's Azure-in-a-shipping-container offering could figure prominently in its cyber-sovereignty and 'special clouds' efforts in the year to come.

January 4, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft to replace its many mail variants with 'One Outlook'

Microsoft looks to be finally moving to a true, single Outlook client, but it may not be available as part of Windows 10 until 2022, according to a new report.

January 4, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Productivity

Five Microsoft technologies to watch in 2021

Though making predictions is more precarious in this environment than ever, here's my list of five Microsoft technologies which I think could impact Microsoft's business customer base in 2021.

December 30, 2020 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft is designing its own Arm chips for datacenter servers: Report

We already knew Microsoft was working to bring Arm-powered servers for internal use to its cloud datacenters. But what and when will this mean anything to its customers?

December 18, 2020 by Mary Jo Foley in Servers