Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
Microsoft's new Windows Virtual Desktop service will allow enterprise subscription customers to run Windows, Office and third-party apps in Azure virtual machines.
Microsoft is starting to roll out Office 2019, its on-premises Office suite for Windows and Mac, and will be delivering the Office 2019 servers within the coming weeks.
Microsoft is working on a new enterprise-focused skills kit for Cortana, based on its Bot Framework, which can be used to build skills and agents for business use.
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 is starting to test a new Azure digital-twinning service, while also making generally available its Azure Sphere and Microsoft IoT Central services.
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's new plan is to launch Surface Hub 2 in two phases, with the new conferencing system hardware coming in Q2 2019 and the new system software for it in 2020.
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,'
Productivity
Microsoft starts rolling out Office 2019 for Windows and Mac
Virtualization
Collaboration
What's next for Teams, Microsoft's 'fastest growing business app' in company history
Productivity
Microsoft to unify search across Windows 10, Office 365 and Bing with Microsoft Search
Collaboration
Microsoft staggers rollout of Surface Hub 2, with hardware in 2019; new software in 2020