Microsoft Reduces OneDrive Storage Allotment
Users of Microsoft’s OneDrive have begun receiving notifications that their storage allotments have already, or will soon be, reduced to 5GB. The emails to OneDrive account holders were the first step...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Office 365 Subscription Slows Signficantly
Microsoft said that consumer subscriptions to Office 365 topped 23 million, signaling that the segment’s once quite large year-over-year growth had slowed significantly. The Redmond, Wash. company...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Cloud Business Continues To Be A Success Story
Microsoft’s continued investment in the cloud paid dividends once again over the past quarter, as strong growth from Azure and Office 365 offset declines in the PC market. The company announced on...
View ArticleMicrosoft Updates FastTrack To Include More Services
Microsoft is updating the free services program it offers to help enterprise customers adopt its products. The company has announced that its FastTrack services now encompass Dynamics 365, Windows 10...
View ArticleMicrosoft To Introduce ‘Teams’ Slack Competitor On March 14th
Microsoft’s debut into the workplace chat app market will become available in about a week. The company announced on Tuesday it will mark the occasion with a webcast to discuss what’s new since the...
View ArticleWindows 10 Next Major Update To Arrive On April 11th
After months of waiting, beta tests, and tiny morsels of information about new features, the next major update for Windows 10 will arrive on April 11. Microsoft has announced that the Creators Update,...
View ArticleMicrosoft To Release First Upgrade To Windows 2016 Server
Microsoft is scheduled to release the first upgrade to Windows Server 2016 in late September. “We’ll be launching Windows Server, version 1709, at Ignite,” Jeff Woolsey, a manager in Microsoft’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft Updates Teams Collaboration Software
Microsoft has added enhancements to its Teams collaboration software, including guest account access and beefing up security and management capabilities for IT admins. The guest access means that...
View ArticleSkype For Business Being Replaced By Microsoft’s Team Product
Microsoft’s Skype for Business will be replaced by Teams, which will become the primary communications client within Office 365. The Teams instant messaging platform – which is bundled with the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office 2019 May Only Work On Windows 10
It's a move that's clearly designed to push businesses that are holding off on Office 365 into subscriptions, as the standalone Office 2019 software will only be supported on Windows 10 and not Windows...
View ArticleMicrosoft Will Continue To Pressure Businesses To Adopt Office 365
The software developer is expected to encourage companies to switch to Office 365 by limiting access to that software’s online services. Microsoft will continue to pressure businesses to adopt Office...
View ArticleMicrosoft Touts Free Version Of Teams In Battle With Slack
In another sign of how heated the collaboration software market is getting, Microsoft debuted a free version of Teams, offering access to the group messaging and collaboration app without requiring an...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office 2019 Comes With 10% Price Hike
Microsoft has increased the pricing for the retail versions of Office 2019 by as much as 10% when it began selling the application suite earlier this month. The price increases were similar to those...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Team App Gains Ground On Slack, According To Recent Survey
Two years after its launch, Microsoft Teams is outpacing team chat rival Slack – no doubt Teams’ free availability as part of Office 365 subscriptions plays a role. That’s according to a survey of 900...
View ArticleIs A Consumer Version Of ‘Microsoft 365’ Forthcoming
Details are thin on the ground right now, but the name "Microsoft 365", rather than "Windows 365" suggests this will be a combo offering covering the OS, Office, Skype and possible OneDrive.
View ArticleBing Search Engine Is Being Blocked In China
Microsoft Corp’s Bing search engine has been blocked in China, the company confirmed earlier this week, making it the latest foreign technology service to be barred from behind the country’s Great...
View ArticleMicrosoft To Offer Extended Security Support For Windows 7
Microsoft plans to begin offering Windows 7 add-on support beginning April 1. Labeled “Extended Security Updates” (ESU), the post-retirement support will give enterprise customers more time to purge...
View ArticleMicrosoft Offers Deep Discount For Office 365
Microsoft is now offering discounts of 30% on consumer-grade Office 365 subscriptions to employees of companies with “Home Use Program” agreements. The savings reduced Office 365 Home subscription to...
View ArticleIs Microsoft Requesting Too Much Data
If you want to change it later, you need to go to File > Account > Account Privacy > Manage Settings. It's not hard to find - if, that is, you know what you're looking for.
View ArticleMicrosoft Ends ‘Home Use Program’, Offers Annual Licensing
As expected, Microsoft has decided to discontinue the perpetually-licensed Office 2019 from its “Home Use Program” agreements with organizations that license the productivity software for the...
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