Mary Jo Foley

Senior Contributing Editor

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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 co-host 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.

Freelance journalist/blogger Mary Jo Foley has nothing to disclose. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). I do not own Microsoft stock or stock in any of its partners or competitors. I have done paid speaking engagements for Microsoft and some of its partners, but none where all the content is not my own.

Latest from Mary Jo Foley

Microsoft President of 15,000-person Digital Transformation Group, James Phillips, is out

As part of a big reorg inside Microsoft's enterprise side of the house, Nuance also is starting to get integrated into the Cloud + AI business.

April 4, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft acquires objectives and key results vendor Ally.io and plans to add it to Viva

Microsoft is buying OKR vendor Ally.io and is planning to make its objectives and key results technology the core of a fifth module in its Viva employee-experience platform.

October 7, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft rebrands its compliance and data-governance products as 'Microsoft Purview'

Microsoft is bringing together its Microsoft 365 compliance and Azure Purview data-governance products into a suite now known as 'Microsoft Purview.'

April 19, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Global Azure outage knocked out virtual machines, other VM-dependent services

A nearly eight-hour outage affected Azure users globally who were using Windows VMs and services dependent on them.

October 13, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft's Cloud for Financial Services to be generally available November 1

Microsoft is readying its next vertical cloud, the Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, for general availability next month.

October 4, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft reorgs its cloud business, creates new Strategic Missions and Technologies team

Microsoft's new Strategic Missions and Technologies team, headed by Jason Zander, will group Microsoft's evolving Federal, Azure Space, telco, and quantum computing businesses.

November 17, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft and customer FedEx partner on 'logistics as a service'

Microsoft and FedEx reveal more about their partnership around analytics, supply-chain and logistics management and specifically how Dynamics 365 will play a role.

January 24, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft makes Dev Box virtual workstation available to testers

Microsoft's Dev Box service, which lets developers use pre-configured developer workstations in the cloud, is now available to all interested testers.

August 15, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud Storage

Microsoft invests $50 million in LanzaJet for sustainable datacenter fuel

Microsoft is investing in sustainable-fuels company LanzaJet, which is building an alcohol-to-jet sustainable fuel production plant.

January 13, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Microsoft to rebrand its partner program and focus resellers further around its cloud

Microsoft is making big changes in certifying and scoring resellers. But so far, despite continued partner outcry, there have been no changes to the New Commerce Experience requirements.

March 16, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

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