Todd R. Weiss

Enterprise users who are looking for migration alternatives for their Windows Server 2008 32-bit applications as the end of support approaches for the product in January 2020 can now turn to Azure Site Recovery to perform the migrations and extend support for those applications on Azure through 2023. The new option, which was announced by […]

The third generation of Google-branded smartphones, the Google Pixel 3 and the Google Pixel 3 XL, will go on sale starting Oct. 18, adding more artificial intelligence features, optional wireless chargers and improved device security for potential buyers. The new Pixel 3 XL gets a 6.3-inch QHD+ organic light emitting diode (OLED) touch-screen display (523ppi […]

Microsoft is again releasing its latest Windows 10 updates for October 2018 after “pausing” the release last week after some users reported they had experienced missing files after the updates were installed on their machines. The original Windows 10 update, version 1809, quickly generated “isolated” reports of problems from some users, wrote John Cable, director […]

The new Honor 8X budget smartphone has been announced by Huawei’s budget smartphone brand as the company continues to develop and release handsets that are filled with a wide range of features while holding the line on prices. The Honor 8X, which includes a 6.5-inch borderless HD FullView display, features an octa-core Kirin 710 processor, […]

Microsoft has bolstered its Surface laptop line with its most powerful Surface Pro portable—the Surface Pro 6—as well as with a new Surface Studio 2 desktop computer and a new Surface Laptop 2 model that claims up to 14.5 hours of battery life. Also unveiled is a new no-interest, 24-month consumer financing plan that will […]

Over the last few months, Microsoft has been adding a wide range of new productivity features to its Visual Studio 2017 application development platform based on developer feedback and comments, and now the company wants to highlight those improvements. “Many of these are the result of your direct feedback coming from the UserVoice requests, Developer […]

Seven months after acquiring clustered file system vendor Avere, Microsoft is unveiling the public preview of Avere vFXT for Azure, which now allows customers to integrate Avere’s high-performance clustered file system with Azure cloud workloads. The public preview was announced by Rebecca Thompson, principal program manager for Microsoft Azure, in a Sept. 4 post on […]

Microsoft has dropped its 24-month Surface Plus free financing program for non-business buyers of Surface devices, just 13 months after starting the program in August of 2017. The Microsoft Surface Plus program had offered 24 months of free financing through Klarna Financing for purchases of any Surface devices on monthly payment plans. The program had […]

Artificial intelligence capabilities are coming to Microsoft’s SharePoint mobile app that will assist users in finding a wide range of information through a new “find” tab that is being added to the app. The improvement is aimed at bringing the power of AI to assist SharePoint users as they seek the information they need to […]

BlackBerry has introduced its latest smartphone, the $399 KEY2 LE model that keeps some key features of its recent $649 KEY2 handset while cutting back in other areas to trim $250 off the earlier phone’s price.  The KEY2 LE, which will be produced and sold under an ongoing licensing agreement with China’s TCL Communication, was […]

Microsoft is expanding its Azure Active Directory B2B Collaboration support to now include log-ins from users who have Google IDs, which will allow enterprises to open their network access to trusted partners for ease of use and increased collaboration. The new capabilities, which allow invited users to sign in to shared apps and resources using […]

Enterprise users of Microsoft 365 will soon gain new content storage features enabled with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) that work with Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint.   The coming improvements and new capabilities, which are aimed at helping users increase their productivity while keeping their content more secure, were announced in an Aug. […]