Todd R. Weiss

Microsoft has released a preview edition of its Microsoft Forms Pro enterprise survey and analytics tool, which provides wide-ranging capabilities for enterprise users to build insightful opinion surveys aimed at employees or customers.  The completed surveys, which can be created to get input on workplace, product or consumer issues and more, can collect data that […]

Making computers, software and the internet more accessible to users who have physical handicaps is the goal of Microsoft’s two Accessibility Insights applications, which are now  available as open source code. The two free tools, Accessibility Insights for Windows and Accessibility Insights for Web, help developers find and fix common accessibility issues early in the […]

Microsoft’s latest System Center 2019 data center management and monitoring application is now available in general release following a private preview to users through the Windows Server Technical Adoption Program (WSTAP) since December of 2018. The latest release provides a wide range of tools for companies to use to monitor and manage data centers running […]

Apple has just launched its latest upgraded iPad Air and iPad mini models, which include improved performance due to faster A12 Bionic 64-bit processors as well as support for the optional Apple Pencil input stylus. The new machines, which can be ordered immediately, start at $499 for the iPad Air and $399 for the iPad […]

Giving a wider range of fresh cyber-attack threats and information to IT security workers 24/7 is the aim of a new Microsoft Azure security tool—Microsoft Azure Sentinel—that was just released by the company in preview mode. Built to streamline the collection of IT security information across business organizations, including attacks, vulnerabilities and other issues, Microsoft […]

Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio 2019 for Mac release is now available in a preview version 3 that incorporates a wide range of new features for developers, including the ability to launch multiple IDE instances from the macOS dock and the ability to build small, fast Android apps using Xamarin. The preview version 3 of Visual […]

A growing number of employees within small- and medium-sized businesses use Apple Macs, iPads and iPhones to do their work, including graphics designers, webpage designers, lawyers and ad agencies. But managing the devices can be a challenge with Apple’s own software. That’s where third-party Apple device management applications and services from vendors including Addigy, Kaseya, […]

MIAMI—Apple device management platform vendor Addigy has unveiled a wide range of new features for its cloud-based services, including single sign-on capabilities, LANCache peer-to-peer caching and expanded mobile device management (MDM) services. The new features, which were announced here at the Addigy 2019 Partner Summit on March 7, also include an Addigy Community Center built […]

Microsoft has unveiled a preview of a new Azure Spatial Anchors service that gives business users the ability to build collaborative, cross-platform and spatially aware applications that take advantage of mixed reality capabilities. The Azure Spatial Anchors services were announced by Neena Kamath, the principal program manager for Azure Mixed Reality, in a Feb. 25 […]

Microsoft Azure, which has been continuing to gain features that make it easier to use it with the Kubernetes container orchestration system, now allows users to deploy multiple apps to a single Azure Kubernetes Service cluster (AKS) at once. The new capability, which was announced by Atul Malaviya, principal program manager for Azure DevOps, in […]