Microsoft announced today that its new OS will be called Windows 10 – and not Windows 9, as had been widely expected. The company also unveiled its new Windows Insider Program, and confirmed that the new OS will be available for early adopters and its “most enthusiastic” users to download tomorrow.  But when will the …

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Late next month, we fully expect Microsoft to release a technical preview of Windows Threshold and as we approach that launch window, we are learning more and more about the release and what all will be included. For starters, the current watermark for the builds that are circulating refer to the pre-release version as the “Windows Technical …

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    Microsoft is getting its head down to work and pushing out internal builds of Windows Threshold at a rapid pace and while we had heard that a fall preview was in the works, it looks like the end of September is now the timeframe for release.  It looks like the preview will be public …

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Later this month, on the 12th to be exact, Microsoft will be releasing an update that is said to be called the “August Update”; as many of you who have been following the rumors know, it was previously referred to as Update 2. We have already heard, multiple times, that this next update will be rather small and will …

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Jared Spataro is the General Manager of Enterprise Social at Microsoft. One of our key themes at the SharePoint Conference in March was Work Like a Network. Yammer is at the heart of this new way of getting things done, and ever since the acquisition we’ve been focused on weaving social capabilities deeply into Office 365. In …

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Microsoft is still keen to shift its perpetual-license Office customers over to the Office 365 subscription model, and to that end it’s planning a shakeup of its Office 365 plans for small and midsized businesses to offer customers more value and greater flexibility. Beginning on October 1, Redmond will launch three new Office subscription plans …

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As the second half 2014 rolls in, Microsoft is stepping up its warnings for approaching support deadlines for some of its key products, including Windows 7. “End of support” means there will be no more fixes or patches — paid or free, security or non-security — coming for specific products. (There are some temporary workarounds, as Windows XP …

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Microsoft has lifted the lid on its Office 365 for business roadmap, something that many of its customers have been asking for. Divided into four categories are most (though not all) of the features Microsoft intends to launch, roll out, develop (or cancel) on Office 365. Some are minor (like an update to OneNote for …

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Microsoft is hard at work on the next major update to Windows and we don’t mean Update 2. Threshold, as it is currently known, is a wave of updates coming to Windows and other platforms; much like how Blue brought new features across many of Microsoft’s key platforms. While it is still a little unclear if the Threshold …

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