Scott Bekker

Microsoft Inspire 2021, the company’s partner conference that is being held virtually for the second year in a row due to COVID-19, kicks off this week.

In an annual ritual preceding the Inspire conference, Microsoft on Thursday unveiled the finalists and winners in 56 global categories and for 108 country-level awards.

There will be a successor to Windows 10. It’s called Windows 11, and it is slated to be generally available this holiday season, Microsoft announced in an unveiling event Thursday.

Microsoft has confirmed rumors that it will move forward from Windows 10, announcing that it will release Windows 11 in time for the 2021 holiday season.

The structure of the MPN has reached a significant milestone: The number of advanced specializations surpassed the number of competencies for the first time.

The Microsoft board looked at Satya Nadella’s work for the last seven years as CEO and decided to add ‘chairman’ to his title.

Seven years into his stint as CEO of Microsoft, Nadella was elected unanimously by the Microsoft board’s independent directors to the role of board chair.

Microsoft won’t be delivering Windows 10X at all, the company confirmed in a blog post Tuesday.

Microsoft Teams now has over 145 million daily active users, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during Microsoft’s earnings call Tuesday.

Lest the impression set in that Teams usage growth plateaued early in the pandemic, CEO Satya Nadella uncorked a massive new number as part of Microsoft’s Q3 earnings release.

With its second-biggest acquisition to date, Microsoft is massively increasing its bet on becoming a prime mover in health care tech.

Microsoft has hired Accenture’s Salesforce business lead for the United Kingdom and Ireland as its new U.K. channel chief.

Gavriella Schuster to explore next steps, as the worldwide One Commercial Partner team becomes Global Channel Sales.

We’re awash in data, and it’s still flooding in.

The numbers for data protection trends are both better and worse this year.

The best managed workplace services providers are automating the heck out of their service desks, Gartner analysts argue in a recent Magic Quadrant report.

We like to think ‘general availability’ still counts for something in this always-iterating development world.

Microsoft and partners continue to rack up co-selling revenues, and the company is now looking to the small and medium business segment for further growth.

BitTitan is expanding its tools and capabilities around tenant-to-tenant migrations of Microsoft Teams.

Acronis will unify its products into a single line on March 31, aiming to roll up security, e-mail security, file sync and share, management, notarization, backup and disaster recovery under the Acronis Cyber Protect license.