The fiercely competitive software giant is positioning its wares for cloud computing with software and services. The company's two cash cows - operating systems and the Office productivity suite - are performing well.
Microsoft takes another big step in its mission for password-less sign-in for Windows 10.
Microsoft is buying its former partner FSLogix and plans to use its technology to improve the virtualization of Office 365 applications.
Unable to sign into your Microsoft Office 365, Azure Active Directory and other services? A global Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) issue may be the reason.
What do you have planned for this Thanksgiving? Chilling out? Some turkey? Relax watching the game? Fixing other people's broken PCs and devices?
Microsoft blocks the Windows 10 October update for iCloud users, while incompatibility problems also hit F5 Network's VPN.
Flawed updates cause Outlook and other apps to crash.
PowerShell is a robust scripting tool that lets you automate and customize your admin tasks—including controlling the devices and user accounts stored in AD. Here are some go-to cmdlets that will simplify...
Microsoft is continuing to look to banner advertising as a way to monetize Windows. But it seems Windows 10's built-in Mail and Calendar apps are unlikely to be the next place these ads show up.
Developers can now recompile Win32 apps to run natively on Windows 10 on Arm devices.
Microsoft has a master plan for trying to get more customers to jump into the AI waters. Here's an attempt to explain how containers, accelerators, and APIs all figure in.
Steer clear of the rereleased Windows 10 October 2018 Update, IT pro warns. Meanwhile, Microsoft promises fix for buggy mapped drives at some point next year.
Microsoft pledges to address issues; has already released a "zero exhaust" Office telemetry setting.
Microsoft's latest Windows 10 test build, No. 18282, adds a new fully light theme, more updating, printing and snipping options and more tweaks.
Microsoft is acquiring XOXCO, a conversational-AI development firm known for its Howdy.ai bot tools for Slack.
Kaspersky: Windows zero-day exploited by multiple cyber-espionage groups.
After a delay of more than five weeks, Microsoft has resumed the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. The company also promised sweeping changes in the way it approaches quality issues, including better communication with customers.
Windows 10 version 1809, officially the October 2018 Update,started rolling out October 2. Here are some of the new capabilities you can expect in this surprisingly feature-packed release. (This gallery is based on a near-final Insider Preview release.)
Microsoft started working on the hybrid devices that now make up the Surface family back in 2009. The group has made some missteps along the way, but today its lineup of Windows 10 devices is genuinely impressive and widely imitated. Here's how the brand has evolved.
Windows tablets existed long before the iPad was even dreamt of. Take a tour through some of most popular - and most unusual - devices of the last decade.
Regardless of the manufacturer name on the back of your Android device, you can install any one of the following apps and use your phone or tablet as your primary means to surf the web, manage email, and keep tabs on your agenda. Bonus: iOS versions available too!
The latest Windows 10 feature update includes the first public release of the Timeline feature as well as dozens of smaller enhancements to the Windows 10 user experience. Here's what you can expect.
The Cortana web service is tightly tied to Windows 10, which means you can get instant answers to some common questions and calculations without having to open a web browser. Here are 16 tricks that work directly in the Windows 10 search box.
In the early days of the PC revolution, Microsoft aggressively pursued the consumer market with products and services built for fun and games. In recent years, with the notable exception of Xbox and related gaming products, Microsoft has been killing off those products. Here's a look at the departed.
Samsung wants to be the smartphone brand for the enterprise and thanks to powerful communication consolidation apps like Samsung Focus, it's definitely doing what it needs to in order to gain followers.
Coke 2, Bic's 'she-pen', and Nokia's 'taco phone' N-gage probably shouldn't have been released, but they shouldn't be forgotten either.
In this series, we look at everything, large and small, that has changed the way we do things or has significantly enhanced our lives. In part 13, we look at software innovation.
They laughed at the original Surface RT. But Microsoft persisted, refining the Surface Pro's features and engineering away its flaws through multiple iterations. The proof of success? Just look at all the Surface Pro clones.
If you want to take a walk round the shop of the future, a good place to start is a supermarket located in the Bicocca district of Milan, Italy. There, thanks to a blend of gaming technologies, IoT and cloud computing, you can seamlessly interact with the products that interest you and make better buying choices.
As Microsoft Edge adoption increases, critical extensions are starting to show up for the promising new browser. We spotlight ten of them.
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake is now generally available, but what does it do, and how does it work? Here's a tour around the service's tooling and capabilities, to help you understand it and get productive with it, quickly.
Microsoft's back-end activation issues which caused a number of Windows users to get false product-activation-error messages seems to be nearly fixed.
Microsoft engineers have already ported the ProcDump utility and are currently working on porting ProcMon as well. More tools to follow.
Microsoft released the Windows 10 October 2018 Update on October 2, then pulled it days later. The update has still not been re-released. Where's the problem? And will it happen again? Read more: https://zd.net/2RhmsDH
Recent antitrust developments in the EU could present an opportunity for a third mobile platform that never really had a chance to mature and develop an ecosystem when it first released. Read more: https://zd.net/2OJKCtR
Sadly, you'll probably never get to buy one of these handy, second-display Windows 10 Mobile covers.
Back up files before upgrading to Windows 10 1809, and if you get a warning about Intel drivers, do not proceed.
ZDNet's Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley make some proposals that could help Microsoft solve for its Windows 10 version 1809 issues in the future. We should have charged Microsoft a consulting day rate.
WebP image format gets new life courtesy of Microsoft and Mozilla. Apple is last browser maker without WebP support.
Microsoft cites problems with the latest update package deleting user files.
Microsoft sets out its list of features that are being removed or deprecated in the next Windows 10 release.
Mary Jo Foley and Larry Dignan discuss Microsoft's product roadmap and what it means for developers and CxOs.
Microsoft given AU$2.6 million as part of the contract extending the life of Windows Server 2003.
With the Windows 7 end-of-support clock slowly winding down to January 14, 2020, Microsoft is announcing it will offer, for a fee, continuing security updates for the product through January 2023. Read more: https://zd.net/2CqPb6z
Startups in small Baltic state Estonia have attracted over half a billion dollars in investments in just 1.5 years.
Microsoft focuses on simplifying Skype after users find its calling and messaging 'overcomplicated'.
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