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This month the theme seems to be the product formally known as Common Data Service. Thankfully they didn’t change its name to a symbol, instead, they now call it Dataverse

It was a busy month for Office 365 updates but these are the items you need to know about.

Microsoft is starting to roll out a significant update to the Teams expereince with some features arriving today and others in early 2021.

November brings a new version of Edge in the Stable Channel, Windows Feature Experience Packs for Insiders, and news of a hardware security architecture designed to protect Windows 10 devices against physical attack.

November has come and gone but for those looking to catch-up on Azure, here’s what you need to know.

Intrusive Usage Data Exposed in Microsoft 365 Admin Center Over the past few week or so, a bunch of news reports have emerged about the new Microsoft 365 Productivity Score feature (Figure 1), which was announced at the Ignite 2019 conference before achieving general availability in October 2020. In the Microsoft blog, CVP Brad Anderson…

Microsoft is testing out a new way to update features in Windows 10 with Windows Feature Experience Pack.

Microsoft is preparing to launch new Surface hardware early next year.

SMB Compression improves speeds and lowers bandwidth utilization when copying large files across the network.

Refreshing the Substrate Last year, I wrote about the Office 365 substrate, a little understood but critical component of how Microsoft is developing their cloud services. That article followed a talk by Microsoft Fellow Jeffrey Snover at the Ignite 2019 conference. Now boasting the title of CTO for Modern Workforce Transformation, Snover recently explored the…

In the past two weeks, two major acquisitions have shaken up the Microsoft 365 ISV market.

Most organizations have finally been convinced about the need to have a robust disaster recovery (DR) plan to protect their essential workloads. That’s due in a big part to the fact that almost everyone in IT is all too familiar with Murphy’s Law that states if something can go wrong it will go wrong and…