Microsoft - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Dominant AWS reminds cloud market who’s boss

  Amazon Web Services continues to dominate the public cloud services market, operating as a “clear” worldwide leader across the world.

• Meet the leading customer-centric Microsoft channel partners

  Microsoft honoured leading partners across the channel following a year of customer innovation and market growth in New Zealand. The 2018 Microsoft Partner Awards recognised excellence within the context of the end-user, spanning a host of emerging and established providers.

• New-look Microsoft honours Kiwi partners

  Microsoft has honoured leading partners across the channel following a year of customer innovation and market growth in New Zealand.

• Microsoft ramps up AI play with Bonsai buy

  ​Microsoft has struck a deal to acquire machine learning start-up Bonsai as part of its efforts to boost developers' AI capabilities.

• Opinion: Is Microsoft already killing off Windows 7?

  It sure looks like it’s regretting promising 18 more months of support for Windows 10’s biggest competitor.

• How to defer Windows 10 updates

  Windows 10 forces updates on home users, but Windows 10 Pro users can slow down feature upgrades if they want.

• Windows 10 Spring Creators Update: The best hidden features

  Microsoft’s Windows 10 upgrade, code-named Redstone 4 and informally known as the Spring Creators Update, offers many smaller additions and changes you might miss. We've highlighted them here.

• Serverless in the cloud: AWS vs. Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure

  With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way

• Microsoft shrinks Windows 10's upgrade downtime

  Beginning with the upcoming spring update to the OS – likely to arrive in early April – users will find the upgrade process is faster.

• Windows 10 shows users what data it collects and phones in

  With Windows Insider build 17083, Microsoft responded to criticism about transparency by adding a 'Diagnostic Data Viewer' app to the OS for beta users to try out.

• Microsoft turns up heat on Slack with Teams group chat update

  A Teams app directory is among the new features added to the company’s Office 365 group chat tool. Analysts say Microsoft is looking to match rivals like Slack in functionality.

Whitepapers about Microsoft

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  SPLA Licensing for Hoster NZ

  An overview of SPLA Licensing for New Zealand Hosting Provider.

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  Security in Office 365 Whitepaper

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  MS Cloud based commercial services