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At Microsoft’s Ignite conference, the company has started to pitch Windows 10 S for the enterprise along with new low-end hardware.

Microsoft released the July 2022 Patch Tuesday updates yesterday for all supported versions of Windows. Even though you may want to lay back and relax during the summer, Microsoft fixed no less than 84 vulnerabilities this month, so you may not want to skip the company’s latest patches.   Critical Windows vulnerabilities in July Patch…

This week, Microsoft’s Build conference is happening and the company is making announcements from updates to Windows development to new API features in Office. For users of Teams, and more specifically developers of apps for Teams, there are updates that you should know about. Microsoft has announced new extensions for both Visual Studio and Visual…

Microsoft is making Office 2019 available starting today but only for a small group of customers; consumers will have to wait a few more weeks.

Microsoft took the wraps off Windows 8.1 Update at the Build conference this week. Does this upgrade have what it takes to convince Windows 8 skeptics?

MC255074 – Microsoft Office displays a list of recommended files on the File tab, or start page, of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint on Windows. This list allows you to keep track of work around you and quickly access files with activity you value most such as edits, mentions, comments by people you interact with. This feature…

MC454810 – Updated March 3, 2023: Microsoft has updated rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft 365 Apps are disabling server sign-in prompts using Basic authentication in Office Apps. Microsoft is making this change because basic authentication is a legacy authentication method that sends a username and password with each request. As a…

Waffling over virtualization options? Check out this op-ed comparison between WS2012 R2 Hyper-V and VMware vSphere 5.5 from the Hyper-V perspective.

In a surprising but welcome announcement, Microsoft moved the end of extended support for Exchange 2010 to October 2020. This version of Exchange was the most technology-rich and significant in the product’s history, which might be the reason why so many organizations still depend on Exchange 2010 for email. Better options exist, and Exchange Online is the natural place to go… if your network and applications allow the move.

This Week in IT, I dig deeper into Microsoft’s recent announcement that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available for small and medium sized businesses, I’ll look at how Copilot for Microsoft 365 differs from the free version of Copilot, and whether you should consider spending $30/user for the additional features Copilot for M365 brings…