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Microsoft is expanding the reach of AI inside Teams with a public preview of Project Manager agent skills that aim to turn meeting chatter and channel conversations into tracked, actionable work — but the feature brings licensing, governance, and operational caveats that IT teams must weigh...

Microsoft’s decision to let organizations stream single Windows applications from the cloud — instead of entire Cloud PC sessions — marks a pragmatic pivot in how enterprises will adopt Windows 365 for day-to-day workforces and frontline roles. The new Windows 365 Cloud Apps feature, now in...

Microsoft has quietly moved another piece of hybrid management from "manual chore" to "policy-driven automation" with the public preview of Auto Agent Upgrade for Azure Arc–enabled servers — a feature that will automatically keep the Azure Connected Machine agent current across on‑premises...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...

Microsoft’s Viva Insights will soon put Copilot analytics directly into the hands of frontline managers, delivering team-scoped dashboards, out-of-the-box Copilot reports, and a publishing pipeline for analysts to surface tailored insights — a change Microsoft says will begin rolling out in late...

Microsoft has quietly opened a gated public preview for Windows 365 Reserve, a new Microsoft service that delivers preconfigured, on‑demand Cloud PCs as a short‑term continuity option for organizations facing device failures, cyber incidents, or other interruptions that leave employees without a...

Microsoft’s Windows 365 lineup has a new tool in the business continuity toolkit: Windows 365 Reserve, a standalone subscription that hands each covered user a short allotment of temporary Cloud PC access to keep work moving when a primary endpoint goes offline. The service—now running in a...

Microsoft has unveiled Windows Backup for Organizations, a new enterprise-focused backup solution designed to streamline data protection and facilitate smoother transitions to Windows 11. Initially announced at Microsoft Ignite in November 2024, this tool has now entered a limited public preview...

Microsoft’s Recall feature, the AI-fueled digital notetaker that nobody asked for yet everyone has an opinion about, has sidestepped its way back into Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs after nearly a year of public silence and private engineering panic. That’s right—Recall, the auto-screenshotting...

Microsoft’s April 8, 2025 Baseline Public Preview: A New Chapter in Windows Security and Usability On April 8, 2025, Microsoft rolled out a pivotal update for Windows 11 and the broader Windows ecosystem, marking a milestone that IT professionals and users have been anticipating for months. This...

Imagine a world where your organization's contact center no longer juggles multiple IVR bots for various languages or requires customers to navigate countless phone lines to connect with help in their preferred language. Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Contact Center has stepped up with a solution that...

Microsoft’s latest announcement, dated January 14, 2025, marks the unveiling of a significant update for Windows users, particularly targeting Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 clients. This update, referred to as the Baseline Public Preview, brings a slew of updates including security fixes...

We are excited to announce that the Rust/WinRT project finally has a permanent and public home on GitHub: microsoft/winrt-rs Rust/WinRT follows in the tradition established by C++/WinRT of building language projections for the Windows Runtime using standard languages and compilers, providing a...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how businesses gather and use data to develop competitive insights and create new financial opportunities. As IoT technology matures and our partners gain more experience, they are evolving their business models to increase the overall return on...

The Link Removed has been in public preview since November 2016. This month marked our first release when security update information was published entirely in the new format. Over the last few months, customers and partners have provided a lot of feedback on the direction and implementation of...

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...

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Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team walks us through what are Azure VM Scale Sets which was released to public preview last week. He even manages to pop in a demo he recorded while at the airport - talk about being mobile! If you'd like the full...

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Link Removed, Program Manager on the Azure Compute Engineering team focusing on Linux and Scale. He joins us to talk about Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Scale Sets are a way to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. Scale Sets handles...

OK, I'm starting to get worried now. I've been working my way through each of the public previews of Windows 10 and, on the whole, I've been fairly impressed. Not blown away, but generally satisfied. But some of the recent screenshots that have been leaking out have me a little concerned. --...