At long last Microsoft are putting IE and older versions of Edge to bed – at long last. Published on the Microsoft Tech Support site today. Today, we’re announcing that Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) by this time next year. Beginning November 30, 2020, the Microsoft
Microsoft is re-entering the smartphone market! Yes really. After blowing a few billion dollars on Nokia and attempting to force Windows OS to perforce on ARM and then throwing in the glove, Mr Softie is at it again. At its Surface event in New York this week, the company announced a new lineup of hardware,
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Microsoft has issued a warning over a few new key cut-off dates coming for developers who built apps for Windows Phone 8.x and Windows 8. With no future for Windows Phone, Microsoft has now laid out its plans for the remnants of its mobile effort. Back in Oct last year Corporate vice president of Windows
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Latest research from Gartner and IDC show the PC market continues to shrink. Last quarter total PC sales totalled 61.1 million units a drop of 4.3%. This compares to 67.9m and 63.9m in the preceding quarters. The bright spot is HP that has now become the number 1 PC vendor overtaking Lenovo. HP grew 3.3%
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According to the Spiceworks 2017 OS Adoption Trends survey, released Monday, some 52% of businesses are still running at least one instance of Windows XP, despite support for the OS ending on April 8, 2014. The survey also noted that 9% of businesses are still running at least one instance of Windows Vista, which will lose
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Microsoft has been running its Windows Server OS on ARM-based processors made by Qualcomm. Microsoft will begin using ARM-based servers in its Azure cloud, in a significant move that takes it beyond using only Intel chips in its datacenters. Microsoft has been testing its Windows Server OS on ARM-based servers made by Qualcomm using the
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Over three quarters of Fortune 500 companies, and hundreds of thousands of smaller companies use a flavour of Microsoft SharePoint but they’re not all using it for the same things. The tricky thing about explaining what SharePoint does is that it isn’t any one software program but rather a platform for several different kinds of programs. SharePoint
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Microsoft adds new security scoring facility to Office 365 Use new Office 365 feature to raise you Security Score and stay safe. If the information age has taught us anything, it has taught us that managing security risks in an enterprise is, and must be, a priority. A security breach can happen anytime and come
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We are working with local SharePoint gurus Dolphin Networks on a couple of Intranet projects. One question we consistently get asked is What is SharePoint and what is BI? Great questions that are not that easy to answer. Even Steve Ballmer seems confused at the launch of the SharePoint 2009 Conference. See YouTube video. However, the
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PC sales are continuing to crash: New data from two research firms shows that the industry is declining fast, with a drop in sales year-on-year of about 10%. Last Wednesday, both Gartner and IDC published estimates for PC shipments in the second quarter of 2015 — and it makes for unpleasant reading for the hardware vendors.
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