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Microsoft Research says it’s made a major breakthrough in converting human speech to text. Recognising continuous, conversational speech is really hard to do accurately, but Redmond reports it can do it as well as actual people can. The researchers claim their technology makes far fewer mistakes. That’s a bold assertion, given the 40-odd-year history of…

Microsoft and SAP have announced an expansion of their partnership to bring more SAP products to Microsoft’s cloud but it will take up to five years for the new software to materialize.

It’s frustrating when a promised feature isn’t available. Microsoft announced auto-expanding archive mailboxes for Exchange Online in June 2016, but Office 365 customers have reported that their storage quota is limited to 170GB. That’s a lot of space, but hardly the “truly bottomless archive” that Microsoft promised. What’s going on?

On this edition of the Enterprise Agenda, we take a look at how and why you should be backing up your Office 365 data as it’s not only Microsoft’s responsability.

How software is being delivered to the enterprise is changing; the cloud is having a significant impact on both hardware and software vendors which opens the door for some, while closing it for others.

Microsoft’s fight to keep its European customers’ data private is back in the news. The U.S. Justice Department wants a court to revisit a ruling preventing the government from reading email stored in an Irish data center. Not only is the data stored outside the U.S., but the owner of the data isn’t a U.S….

Because my Fitbit is telling me to exact revenge, this edition of Short Takes focuses on Xbox One’s third month on top, an Amazon/VMWare partnership to take on Microsoft, an IBM/Google partnership to take on Intel, the iPhone isn’t more secure than Android, HP job cuts, more.

Aidan Finn shows you how to connect two Azure virtual networks that are in the same subscription using a VNet-to-VNet VPN tunnel.

The Focused Inbox is the keynote feature of the Outlook for iOS and Android mobile clients. All other clients in the Outlook family have used the Clutter feature, which processes mail on the server and removes unimportant items into the Clutter folder. Now Microsoft is dropping Clutter and introducing the Focused Inbox across the entire Outlook family. Rationalization and commonality is good, especially when features that really work are made available to all clients. Here’s how the changeover will occur.

Microsoft HoloLens is now available in six more countries. Redmond wants more businesses and developers to get going with its augmented-reality Windows headset. As well as the U.S. and Canada, it’s now in four European countries and two down under. That’s where Microsoft is targeting developers next. You can get it in November, if you pre-order now…

In September, Microsoft announced native support for USB Audio 2.0 out-of-the-box in Windows 10, and is available starting in Redstone 2 build 14931 for Windows Insiders. This is not the same as USB 2.0, which Windows has supported for years, but a standard for connecting professional, semi-professional, and Hi-Fi audio equipment to computers.

Your team needs to be on the same page and always working from the most up-to-date information. This used to mean lots of meetings and emails to share information. Today, sharing information can look very different for your workflow.