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  1. Microsoft Outlook Outage Resolves After Widespread Service Disruption in July 2025

    On the evening of Wednesday, July 9, 2025, and into the morning of Thursday, July 10, 2025, thousands of Microsoft Outlook users experienced service disruptions, including difficulties accessing their inboxes or signing in. Microsoft 365's status page initially reported the issue and began...
  2. Microsoft Launches Windows 365 Reserve for Seamless Business Continuity

    Microsoft has introduced Windows 365 Reserve, a service designed to provide businesses with temporary, pre-configured Cloud PCs to ensure continuity during device unavailability. This offering allows employees to access a Cloud PC from virtually any device via the Windows App or a web browser...
  3. Windows 365 Reserve: The Future of Cloud-Based Device Recovery and Business Continuity

    In the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing and device management, Microsoft continues to push innovation with its latest offering—Windows 365 Reserve. This public preview of a new cloud service promises transformative changes for commercial customers seeking both agility and security in...
  4. Announcing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Bounty program

    The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Link Removed program, a program dedicated to providing rock-solid security for our DevOps customers. Starting January 17, 2019, we’re excited to offer rewards up to US$20,000 for eligible vulnerabilities in...
  5. Accelerate Windows 10 Migration with Windows Analytics

    Windows Analytics accelerates enterprise Windows 10 migration. Traditionally, migrating to a new operating system while ensuring legacy applications and drivers are compatible has been a time-consuming and costly project for organizations. Windows Analytics transforms this process. With Update...
  6. Announcing Microsoft’s Ad Mediation Service

    In-app advertising continues to represent over one-third of the revenue that developers make from writing apps for the Microsoft Windows platform. As part of our continuous commitment to maximize developer monetization through ads, today we are excited to announce Microsoft’s ad mediation...
  7. Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and E5 now available as a partner delivered cloud service

    Feedback from customers and partners is at the core of how we build Windows. Partners have been eager for us to create a partner-managed cloud service subscription offering where businesses of any size can access the latest security, management and control features found in the Enterprise...
  8. Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Preview Expands

    We hear most frequently from our enterprise customers how much they value the advanced productivity, security, and device management capabilities in Windows 10. These capabilities are key factors that have led to 83% of our enterprise customers in active pilots and the commitment of one of the...
  9. Two for the Band

    Honest, this is the last Microsoft Band post... (for a bit at least)(unless I find something really really cool anyway... ;) Just for reference, here are the other recent C4F posts; Microsoft Band SDK Release and Band Studio Introduction, Developing for the Microsoft Band Link Round-up...
  10. Best Buy Cloud Music Service Debuts: Lacklustre

    With Google, Amazon and Apple all offering robust online multimedia download portals, most companies would steer clear of such a crowded and competitive market. But not big-box retailer Best Buy, which recently launched its own music service. Not impressed, say industry experts. There are so...
  11. EasyLink Announces Windows 7 Support for Cloud-Based PC to Fax Service

    NORCROSS, Ga. -- EasyLink Services International Corporation , a global provider of comprehensive messaging services and e-commerce solutions, today announced that effective immediately, EasyLink's PC to Fax print driver software is available for Microsoft Windows 7 in both 32-bit and 64-bit...
  12. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Now Available Worldwide

    Link Removed due to 404 Error Microsoft released Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online worldwide Monday in 40 markets and 41 languages. The updated customer relationship management product aims to deliver customers a familiar, intelligent and connected experience, the company said. REDMOND...
  13. Windows 7 Silverlight TV 56: WCF RIA Services and Azure

    In this episode, John sits down with Saurabh Pant of the WCF RIA Services team and discusses the story of RIA Services and Azure. Saurabh walks through the scenarios in which Azure and RIA Service make sense together and also demonstrates how to get the project up and running in the cloud. Here...
  14. Meet the newest Exchange Server backup provider: Google

    Google is introducing on December 9 a new cloud-email service that it is positioning as an ideal way for Exchange Server 2003 and 2007 users to back up their e-mail. Yes, that’s not a typo. Google officials want the new Google Message Continuity service to servce as a back-up and...
  15. Windows 7 TWC9: Denali, MVC 3 RC, OData programming, Instant Feature Builder

    This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: [watch] MSTechEd: Link Removed and Brian Keller/Larry Larsen "working" by showing off Kinect [watch] SQL Server "Denali" - Next version of SQL Server, includes Parallel Data Warehouse, "Crescent" for data...