Category: Microsoft

Verifone expands Microsoft Dynamics 365 partnership

Verifone today announced the expansion of its partnership with Microsoft that provides comprehensive Payment-as-a-Service for Microsoft Dynamics 365 clients. Availability of Verifone Point, a Payment-as-a-Service solution, will now extend to Microsoft Dynamics 365 users internationally beginning with Canada.

MS Making a Foldable Tablet-Phone?

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Halo May Be Coming For A Younger Audience, Here’s What We Know

One of the big talks circulating within the gaming community from last week was about a Halo game centered around the Mega Bloks property for the Xbox 360. The game was cancelled, but the spirit of the title has lived on and generated enough buzz that the idea may not be dead and gone entirely within the circles of Microsoft.

Microsoft’s New Windows 10 Game Mode Will Maximize Gaming Performance

Microsoft has started officially testing a new Game Mode feature in Windows 10. From a report: Traces of the new option were found back in December, but the most recent test build of Windows 10 includes Game Mode in the Xbox app . MSPoweruser has supplied some screenshots of how you can enable the option , but Microsoft has not yet officially unveiled Game Mode for everyone to test.

My month with the Surface Book i7 with Performance Base

CIO.com’s Sarah White reflects on her past month using the Microsoft’s top-tier hybrid laptop, the Surface Book i7 with Performance Base. When Microsoft held an event last October , everyone thought it was prepping to announce the Microsoft Surface Pro 5 or Surface Book 2. Instead, we got the new Surface Studio, Windows Creative Update and a beefed-up Surface Book i7 with Performance Base.

Windows 10 Creators Update will introduce support for WiGig connections

Last year, Microsoft announced that the Creators Update for Windows 10 would be released in early 2017. Since then, leaks and preview builds distributed to Insiders have revealed many of the features set to be introduced via the update – but now there’s new word of enhanced networking functionality winging its way to Windows 10. In December 2016, Microsoft hosted its annual WinHEC conference in Shenzhen, China.

Microsoft shows off a new user experience in its OneNote UWP app

Last September, the Microsoft OneNote team joined users at Reddit on an Ask Me Anything session and some pretty interesting info was shared. It ranged from the confusion regarding the existence of two OneNote versions on Windows 10, the desktop version and the UWP app, to what we should expect in the future for the UWP OneNote app.

Zunesis Doubles Down on Microsoft Cloud

Zunesis founder and CEO, Steve Shaffer isn’t mincing words when he talks about his company’s plans for cloud computing and where he plans to make his bets. “The cloud industry is highly fragmented, but ultimately the public cloud will be won through scale and operational excellence.

2016 was a pivotal year

I’ve been writing about technology for a long time and, as I look back over the years, I can’t think of any that have been more momentous than 2016 when it comes to tech news. Not all the news was good, but it sure was significant.

What is in store for Windows 10 in 2017

The company ended the free for all buffet in the first half of 2016, but not before pushing the free offer way to aggressively to the PCs of its customers. The second half saw the release of the Anniversary Update for the operating system which added much needed functionality to it.

Last Week on Channel 9: December 19th-December 24th, 2016

Even though the Channel 9 Studios are closed for the Holidays, our content authors, producers and all around awesome show hosts continued to roll out the posts, giving us all something to watch while off from worka If Star Wars: A New Hope is a parable of incident management, as Kellman Meghu demonstrated, then Star Wars: Rogue One is a lesson in a security breach. Here’s what the Empire missed.

Mozilla mulls end of Firefox support for Windows XP and Vista in 2017

While it has been known for a number of years that Mozilla planned to drop support for Windows XP from its Firefox browser, it made sense for that to occur sometime after Microsoft officially ended support for the aging operating system . Now, almost two years after Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP, Mozilla has clarified its intentions for ongoing support.

What is Microsoft Azure and Who Is It For?

The informative article explains the breadth, depth and power of Microsoft Azure, the technology giant’s signature cloud services offering. Considering the confusion they have encountered among business leaders and IT professionals alike, eMazzanti’s cloud experts have assembled material from a variety of sources to paint a clearer picture of the broad collection cloud services known as Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft’s market value tops $500 billion again after 17 years

Shares of the world’s biggest software company rose as much as 2.1 percent to $65.64, an all-time high, in early trading, valuing the company at $510.37 billion. The last time Microsoft was valued more was in March 2000, during the heyday of the dotcom era, when it had a market value of a little above $550 billion, according to Thomson Reuters data.