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Because the pandemic is clearly the best thing that’s ever happened to Microsoft, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s blockbuster quarterly and annual earnings announcement.

DRaaS has steadily become a more popular option to protect your critical services and applications. A Gartner survey in 2019 showed that businesses are now protecting an average of 255 virtualized x86 instances.

Microsoft dodged the opportunity to fire a bullet into their own foot when they pulled back plans to launch “workspaces” in Exchange Online. Announced on Monday and withdrawn on Tuesday, Workspaces are a new form of room mailboxes, the difference being that room mailboxes are used to reserve traditional conference rooms while workspaces seem to…

Microsoft has posted healthy numbers yet again for its earnings even with the headwinds of COVID-19.

On July 6th, Microsoft announced the deprecation of SharePoint 2010 workflows in SharePoint Online, and if you need to move away from this iteration, here’s how you can do that.

Apply Microsoft’s recommended Windows Update settings for faster updates without impacting user productivity.

Microsoft announced in the message center this week that resource-specific content will roll-out to tenants, beginning mid-August. This opens the door for installing richer applications than you would have previously considered approving and allows self-service installation by Team owners. Teams applications based on the Graph API to read and write content within a Team, such…

Microsoft is rolling out new functionality in Teams to make it easier for ISVs to build apps, bots, and more for the platform.

The Windows 10 May 2020 Update includes some new Group Policy settings to manage security, delivery optimization, and apps.

Microsoft has made significant changes to Windows 10X and lost nearly 18 months of development time.

Expanding the Control of Sensitivity Labels In a Teams live event to brief customers on July 14, Microsoft revealed details of how they plan to evolve the container settings in sensitivity labels to exert more control over SharePoint Online sites. Microsoft also plans to improve the flow of creating new sensitivity labels to create “label…

Because the end is listless, this edition of Short Takes looks at a temporary Outlook problem that broke the Internet, Google’s Microsoft envy, a well-intentioned but ill-conceived plan to fix Edge and Chrome memory usage, Microsoft layoffs, and so much more.