software lifecycle

The wave of change rolling through Microsoft’s software suite signals an era of transition for longtime users and business professionals alike. As the company prepares to sunset one of its stalwart legacy applications, Publisher, and repositions another, Skype, the motives and implications are...

Microsoft’s transition away from free support for Windows 10 signals a new era for school IT budgets and long-term technology planning. As of October 14, the company will stop providing complimentary software updates for this aging operating system, a move that has sent ripples across education...

It’s finally time to put away the confetti, cancel your weekly Windows Maps app party, and come to terms with the quiet demise of a true Windows Phone relic: the Maps app in Windows 11 will soon be as useful as a paper clip in a thunderstorm. Mark your calendars for July 2025, when Microsoft...

You open Microsoft Teams for what feels like the millionth time this week, only to discover—wait, is that missing? Yes, it is. Your beloved “Open file” button, the unsung hero of many desperate last-minute presentations and spreadsheet salvations, has vanished from classic Teams. Cue the digital...

The conversation about upgrading laptops to Windows 11 has migrated from mere tech support circles into the domain of global sustainability, security, and the subtle art of corporate arm-twisting. Imagine, for a moment, an otherwise cheerful laptop—a trusty six-year-old companion—suddenly thrust...

October 14, 2025. It sounds like a date out of a near-future sci-fi thriller, perhaps the day AI finally wins an Oscar, or coffee beans run out for good. But for millions of Microsoft Office users, it's a very different kind of drama: it's the cutoff when Office 2016 and Office 2019, those loyal...

Microsoft’s Great Office Exodus: The Sunset of Office 2016 and 2019 and What it Means for You October 14, 2025, is shaping up to be a watershed moment in the Windows ecosystem. It’s the day when Microsoft will retire support not only for the ubiquitous Windows 10 operating system but also for...

Microsoft is dialing down the performance of its legacy OneNote for Windows 10 to encourage users to switch to its modern counterpart—an unusual twist in Microsoft's long-running effort to unify its OneNote experience. Unpacking the Transition For years, OneNote has been more than just a digital...

Interested in running your application in the background? A new developer option available in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update just made background activity a whole lot easier. Your feedback was clear on the multiple process model: while doing background work in a separate process was more...

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 RC is a source-code-control, project-management, and team-collaboration platform at the core of the Microsoft suite of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, which help teams be more agile, collaborate more effectively, and deliver quality...

Microsoft are making it known that support for Windows 7 and other products will soon be changing. Vista and Win 7 will see extended support until the early 2020's but it seems Microsoft wants to close the chapter that was originally called 'Longhorn'. Mary Jo Foley writes in her article: Ref...