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Office LTSC Timeline
Updated: December 16, 2025
Office Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) 2024 extends the supported life span of the Office...more
Understanding Purview Data Governance
December 15, 2025
Purview Data Governance is intended to help discover, curate, manage, and control access to data,...more
Windows Quick Machine Recovery Could Alleviate Future CrowdStrike-Style Outages
December 15, 2025
Windows Quick Machine Recovery, a new feature of Windows 11 intended to help recover otherwise...more
Azure Copilot Agents Simplify Azure Operation, Optimization
December 14, 2025
The Azure portal has had a Copilot for more than a year, but it has...more
Windows 11 Platform for Local AI
December 8, 2025
Windows 11 offers a built-in platform for local AI applications. Compared to cloud AI, local...more
Security Copilot: Expanding and Expensive
Updated: December 7, 2025
Security Copilot can help admins using Microsoft 365 management tools to perform security-related tasks faster....more
Azure Local: Vision Still Ahead of the Product
December 5, 2025
Azure Local (formerly known as Azure Stack HCI) is Microsoft’s primary server host OS for...more
Understanding Pay as You Go Billing for M365 Copilot “Lite” Agents
December 4, 2025
Pay as you go (PAYG) billing for M365 Copilot services, which include M365 Copilot Chat...more
Copilot+ PC: Check for Applications
Updated: December 1, 2025
Copilot+ PCs deliver specialized hardware to speed local up AI models. Several Windows AI features...more
Goodbye SQL Server Reporting Services and Hello Power BI Report Server
December 1, 2025
SQL Server 2025 (released in Nov. 2025) will not include Reporting Services (SSRS), its long-standing reporting...more
The Microsoftification of GitHub
Updated: November 30, 2025
Microsoft organizational changes suggest that GitHub will receive more direct Microsoft control and oversight. The...more
Azure DocumentDB Has a Solid Future And a New Name
November 24, 2025
Azure DocumentDB (previously called Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore), has matured to the point where...more
Azure’s MySQL Offering Gets a New Lease on Life
November 24, 2025
Azure Database for MySQL is receiving new versions and enterprise features that make it more...more
Agent 365: Microsoft Attempts to Herd Your AI Agents
November 24, 2025
Microsoft Agent 365 offers a new set of capabilities that seeks to help organizations improve...more
Understanding Entra ID Privileged Identity Management
Updated: November 22, 2025
Entra ID Privileged Identity Management can help organizations manage and audit the risk posed by...more
GitHub Agent HQ Brings Agent Governance, Third-Party Support
Updated: November 17, 2025
Microsoft delivered GitHub Agent HQ in Oct. 2025, bringing a unified platform for developer agents...more
Comparing Azure Virtual Desktop Services
Updated: November 10, 2025
Communication Services Overview
July 3, 2025
Navigating Microsoft’s Copilots
Updated: May 11, 2025
Available Azure Reservations
Updated: February 16, 2025
Microsoft Defender for Servers Plans
Updated: January 6, 2025
Azure Arc Sample Deployment
Updated: October 11, 2024
Teams Calling Services
October 2, 2023
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Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, formerly known as Office 365 ProPlus, is a suite of...more
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Windows client OS
Windows generally refers to Microsoft’s family of OSs. The Windows client OS runs on devices...more
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Office for the Web
Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-based productivity service for organizations featuring chat, search, and image...more
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DocumentDB
Azure DocumentDB offers a highly compatible MongoDB service using the open-standard DocumentDB platform that runs...more
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Office Online Server
Office Online Server is retiring Dec. 31, 2026
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AI Services
Azure AI Services are a collection of cloud services enabling developers to add specific artificial...more
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Cache for Redis
Roadmap for Cache for Redis, an in-memory caching service that stores copies of application data...more
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Purview Data Governance and Security
Purview Data Governance and Purview Data Security, members of the Microsoft Purview family of compliance...more
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Fabric Overview
Microsoft Fabric is a data and analytics cloud service that simplifies the deployment and use...more
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Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer is a cloud service that helps query and analyze large-scale data streams,...more
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Azure Machine Learning
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Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs provides a brokering service for streaming data that is compatible with Apache...more
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OneLake
OneLake is the core data management component in Microsoft Fabric. It can host and query...more
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Fabric Data Warehouse
Fabric Data Warehouse, one of the main Fabric experiences, provides a SQL-based database solution where...more
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Fabric Data Factory
Fabric Data Factory, one of the main Fabric experiences, is used for creating data integration...more
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Power BI
Power BI, a part of Microsoft Fabric, is Microsoft’s primary data visualization offering. It contains...more
Moving From EA to MCA? Watch Out for These Gotchas
December 16, 2025
· Season - 4 · Episode - 20 · Duration - 22m Is Cloud Computing Becoming a Commodity?December 10, 2025
· Season - 4 · Episode - 19 · Duration - 22m Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates: What You Need to KnowOctober 29, 2025
· Season - 4 · Episode - 18 · Duration - 22m
Microsoft Roadmap Update, Dec. 2025
December 10, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
Microsoft Compliance Update 2025
September 24, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
Power BI and Fabric Roadmap: What did I miss and will it help?
November 12, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
Building and Licensing Copilot Agents
August 27, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
No Autopilot for Copilot
July 31, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
Microsoft’s AI-Native Applications Strategy
June 19, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
All Webinars
December 4, 2025
Microsoft to increase Office suite prices across the board starting July 2026
by Mary Jo Foley
Updated: December 2, 2025
CIO Talk: Microsoft Gets IQ
by Barry Briggs
November 18, 2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Ten Things You Need to Know
by Mary Jo Foley