Microsoft is trying to make good on its commitment to managing not only assets in Azure cloud but on customer premises and in other providers’ clouds. Azure Arc for servers, a centralized management tool that provides visibility into Azure data services, Kubernetes clusters, and servers running Windows or Linux, has been generally available since September, … Read more
The one-app-for-all Outlook will run within a browser as a replacement for the Windows, Mac, iOS and Android editions of the company’s popular email app. Microsoft plans to produce a one-app-for-all Outlook that runs within the browser as a replacement for the various Windows, Mac, iOS and Android editions of the company’s premier email application, … Read more
Need to share a Windows 10 PC among employees or temporary workers at the office, or with family members at home? No problem — here’s how to do it. In some offices, computers are shared between two or more employees or temporary workers. That sounds like a recipe for disaster, but Windows 10 has great … Read more
Calling employee experience the “new ERP,” Microsoft introduced four Viva “modules” that provide access to workplace learning, knowledge, analytics, and corporate info. Microsoft today unveiled its employee-experience platform, Viva, which the company calls a digital “gateway” for employees to access relevant news, learning, analytics, and knowledge within their organization. Four Viva “modules” — Connections, Insights, … Read more
Microsoft has made numerous improvements to Windows 10 over the years, but it still has some annoying quirks. We help you solve them. When it made its debut in 2015, Windows 10 fixed several problems that were endemic in earlier versions of Windows — notably Windows 8 — and Microsoft has steadily improved Windows 10 … Read more
Recent versions of Windows 10 have introduced optional updates to Windows Update. What are they and how should you handle them? Windows 10 users who have upgraded to version 2004 or 20H2 might have noticed something new when they go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update. Beneath the always-present “Check for updates” button, … Read more
The company is now touting ‘Windows Feature Experience Packs’ as a way to increase the number of features it rolls out to users over the course of a year. Microsoft, which has not given up on pushing frequent feature changes to Windows 10 users, this week introduced the concept of Windows Feature Experience Packs as a way … Read more
One day after Apple unveiled new computers that run on Apple-designed silicon, Microsoft issued a preview of Office for the Mac that will run natively on the new hardware. Microsoft on Wednesday issued a preview of Office for the Mac that will run natively on Apple’s upcoming ARM-based laptops. The Redmond, Wash. company also modified … Read more
Here comes Windows as a Desktop-as-a-Service: Microsoft Cloud PC. Ready or not, here comes Windows as a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) for all users in the forthcoming Microsoft Cloud PC offering. I’ve been predicting that many of us would soon be using Desktop-as-a-Service for a long time now. I can give you an approximate date now. By May 2021, … Read more
Getting the dreaded Windows 10 black screen, with or without a cursor? Here are some simple (and not so simple) ways to banish it and get your desktop back. The “black screen” phenomenon in Windows 10 shows poignantly how nothing sometimes matters quite a lot. Seeing nothing except black screen where the desktop and its … Read more
