Todd R. Weiss

Smartphones today do just about everything for their owners. You know the drill: making calls, texting, taking photos, playing music, showing videos and movies, reminding users of appointments, video conferencing, web surfing and even making purchases. But even in a world where just about any smartphone can work well for any business or consumer user, […]

Microsoft has introduced a new Security Policy Advisor service to make it easier for enterprise IT managers to create and manage security policies for users of Office 365. The advisor service, which was announced by Jared Spataro, a Microsoft 365 corporate vice president, in a recent post on the Microsoft 365 Blog, aims to provide […]

Users of Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams are gaining access to a new tool to help them in the event of accidental file deletions or software issues while they work thanks to the addition of a new Files Restore feature that is being rolled out to both applications. “Data loss is non-negotiable,” Mark Kashman, a […]

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18, which can be used to manage any SQL infrastructure, has been released and is now generally available to users with a long list of updates and improvements. The latest version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) was unveiled by Dinakar Nethi, senior program manager for Azure Data, in an […]

Three weeks after Samsung distributed an undisclosed number of its new Samsung Galaxy Fold $1,980 folding smartphones for testing and reviews by journalists, the company has now announced a delay in the launch of the handsets after multiple reports of cracked screens, flickering and other operational problems involving the innovative new phones. The company announced […]

Microsoft has announced that Apache Hadoop 3.0 is now generally available on the Azure HDInsight analytics platform, along with a variety of improvements and enhancements aimed at providing more analytics data to users. The Apache Hadoop 3.0 news was announced by Arindam Chatterjee, the principal group program manager for Azure HDInsight, in an April 15 […]

Microsoft Azure is now offering another hosting option, an Azure Functions Premium plan,  for Azure enterprise cloud customers that want to add new capabilities to their cloud configurations. Using the premium  plan, enterprise customers will be able to use pre-warmed instances to run their apps with no delay after being idle, while also being able […]

New versions of Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac have been released, bringing new capabilities, features and code improvements for enterprise developers and teams that use the integrated development environment (IDE) for creating and updating business apps. The latest version of Visual Studio 2019, which is available immediately for download, has […]

Microsoft, which is working to expand the use of artificial intelligence in its products from Azure to Windows, has launched a free new online AI Business School to help encourage and educate business leaders about innovative ways they can use the power of AI to drive their companies and better serve their customers. “There is […]

Microsoft has added two new tools to its Azure AI cloud products to give developers the ability to add richer artificial intelligence capabilities to their apps and services for enterprise users. The new tools, Azure Custom Vision and an Anomaly Detector service, were unveiled in a March 26 post on the Azure Blog by Anand […]