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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...

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...

SQL Server Mobile Report Publisher is an authoring tool for mobile reports. Link Removed

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...

This past week the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK was updated, v2.0.1409.10000, with this version getting the SDK, and your apps, ready for the final release and commercial deployment later this year... Link Removed Today we released another update to the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 public preview...

Today we’re publishing the Link Removed. The majority of questions focused on the ActiveX Kill Bits bulletin (MS13-090) and the advisories. We also answered a few general questions that were not specific to any of this month’s updates, but that may be of interest. We’ve discussed the Microsoft...

Microsoft Windows 8.1 Gets October Release Date By Link Removed | Posted 2013-08-15 Link Removed Email Link Removed Print Link Removed In a sign of Microsoft's commitment to a quickened software release cadence, Windows 8.1 will launch in less than a year after its predecessor. The first...

According to an article by Zdnet Journo Mary Jo Foley Microsoft Has confimed that August will see the release of RTM 8.1. Some thought it would be around August first but it looks like this date has been pushed back: Reference: Microsoft confirms Windows 8.1 to RTM by August | ZDNet

Mary Jo Foley has an article running which almost confirms a few of the rumours: Windows Blue named Windows 8.1. Blue to be free. Available through the Store and not Windows update. Initial public preview release end of June 2013. Release to manufacturing around August 2013. Includes GUI...

A recent blog notes that the 8.1 update will be free and available through the Windows Store. Look out around the 26th June for a public preview: Ref: Link Removed

A recent blog has revealed a possible release date for Windows Blue or Windows 8.1: Ref: Link Removed

The Verge has revealed more details on the Windows Blue release: Reference: Windows Blue public preview planned for Build developer conference | The Verge