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Microsoft Announces Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides healthcare organization with a suite of new tools designed to help them recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

November 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare to provide healthcare organization with a suite of new tools designed to help them recover from the COVID-19 crisis. The new offering, announced last week, includes “provides trusted and integrated capabilities that deliver automation and efficiency on high-value workflows as well as deep data analysis functionality for […]

Microsoft, Honeywell Announce Integration to Help Industrial Customers

Microsoft and Honeywell have announced a partnership that combines Honeywell’s applications with Microsoft’s cloud platform for industrial customers.

October 23, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft and Honeywell have announced a partnership that combines Honeywell’s applications with Microsoft’s cloud platform for industrial customers. Specifically, the partnership is an integration of the AI-driven autonomous controls of the Honeywell Forge enterprise performance management software with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service. This is designed to give customers access to operating data like workflow […]

Microsoft Releases Azure Defender for IoT in Public Preview

Azure Defender for IoT is designed to help protect and monitor industrial and critical infrastructure that depend on those devices.

October 16, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Azure Defender for IoT, Microsoft’s cybersecurity solution for IoT and OT devices, has entered public preview to help protect industrial and critical infrastructure that depend on those devices. The new solution incorporates agentless, IOT/OT-aware behavioral analytics from Microsoft’s recent acquisition of CyberX. It addresses these risks by discovering unmanaged assets, identifying vulnerabilities and continuously monitoring […]

Another Microsoft 365 Outage Makes it Three in Two Weeks

Another outage to key Microsoft 365 services hit users Wednesday afternoon, making it the company's third outage in three weeks.

October 8, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If your team was unable to access some Microsoft 365 services Wednesday afternoon for the third time since the last week in September, you weren’t alone, as Microsoft confirmed yet another outage. The issues affected vital services like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive and more. Those apps are crucial for communication for millions of workers, […]

Microsoft Services Suffer Two Major Global Outages in One Week

Key Microsoft services were down for several hours on two separate occasions this week just days after announcing dozens of new features at Ignite.

October 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft did not have a very good week, as on two separate occasions critical services were down worldwide for several hours. The latest was early Thursday morning when Outlook was down for several hours due to what Microsoft says was an issue caused by a “configuration update.” It comes just days after a host of […]

Microsoft 365 Services Restored After Hours Long Global Outage

According to Microsoft, a coding issue caused a massive outage Monday night to services like Teams, Outlook, Exchange, SharePoint and others.

September 29, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If you found yourself working later in the day or a little past working hours yesterday, you may have run into a problem with your Office 365 services. That’s because of a massive outage that affected several services, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Azure, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365 and other applications. Down Detector, a website […]

Microsoft to Exclusively License OpenAI’s GPT-3 Model

Microsoft is partnering with artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI to exclusively license the groundbreaking autoregressive language model GPT-3.

September 24, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is partnering with artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI to exclusively license the firm’s autoregressive language model GPT-3. In a blog on Microsoft’s official website, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott said the company will leverage the technical innovation to develop and deliver advanced AI solutions for Microsoft customers and create […]

Microsoft Announces New Features, Products at Ignite

Unified communicaiton, cloud services and security tools highlight announcements made at Microsoft's annual Ignite conference.

September 23, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference from Tuesday to Thursday, has already been eventful for the myriad of new products and features the company has unveiled. Many of the new tools are designed to help companies meet the challenge of doing business in the COVID-19 era and hybrid work. Here’s a look at some innovations in Office […]

Microsoft Beings Pre-Orders for 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

Microsoft is expanding its Surface Hub line with a new 85-inch Surface Hub 2S that the company says is designed for improved collaboration and hybrid work.

September 22, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is expanding its Surface Hub product line with the new 85-inch Surface Hub 2S that the company says is designed for improved collaboration and hybrid work. In a blog announcing the start of preorders for the $21,999.99 collaboration display, the company detailed several ways hybrid work teams are using the smaller 55-inch Surface Hub […]

Microsoft Releases Transcription Services in Word

Microsoft has announced Transcribe in Word, a new feature that allows users to record and transcribe conversations directly in Word for the web.

August 25, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

As a journalist, transcribing audio is my least favorite thing to do. It usually takes more time than the actual interview itself. But, it’s necessary to get it right to avoid misquoting or misinterpreting comments. I’ve made use of some other artificial intelligence-based transcription apps and then moved that text over to Microsoft Word, but […]