One of the most important decisions that your business has to make is what server management software you’ll use, and for many businesses the tool of choice is Windows Server 2016. If you’re struggling with the migration decision, take a look at what’s different.
In this blog, we’ll review some of the top new features in Server 2016 that may help sway your decision. Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE: This blog has been updated several times since SQL Server 2016 became generally available on June 1, 2016, including on Aug. 2, 2017. This includes notice that the second release candidate of SQL Server 2017 is now available, and links to additional resources.
Microsoft announced the release of SQL Server 2017 later this year, with the second release candidate of SQL Server 2017 becoming generally available on Aug. 2. And with SQL Server 2016 generally available, will your organization commit to an upgrade? Are you having problems migrating from older versions?
Microsoft’s SQL Server Team posted a blog on April 5, 2017, giving you “The top 5 reasons to upgrade to SQL Server 2016.” Read More
Did you miss our most recent blogs and white papers? Do you have a student planning to work in business intelligence and data science? Find details on these and more in this post. Read More
Microsoft’s new Edge browser, available only on Windows 10, appears to have a much slower adoption rate than the brand new OS. By some measures only a third of the Windows 10 users online have made use of Edge. Developers might be taking a wait and see position on when to push out apps compatible with that browser. Read More
Developers 
dropped the Microsoft platform in droves as iOS and Android grew to have most of the app base. Windows 8 and the Windows Store seemed to be the nail in the coffin for the organization’s mobile apps. With so few people buying Windows phones compared to iPhones and Android phones, the tech giant’s market share remained small. Read More
Izenda CEO and founder Sanjay Bhatia ran into a scrolling issue on his computer on the day Windows 10 launched. Glitches can be expected on the day a product launches, especially when it’s a major upgrade of an OS. Bhatia got a pleasant surprise when the bug was patched within two hours. Read More
Will augmented reality be the next big thing for data visualization? If Microsoft has anything to say about it, yes, it will.
Since this blog first published in July 2015, much has happened – but Microsoft still hasn’t released a retail version. Now it appears that it won’t be until 2019 that we’ll see the next version of the HoloLens, according to an article by Tom Warren of The Verge. Yep, that’s three years after developers first got their hands on it.
Up until recently the only way you could see what people using the HoloLens were doing was by attending a Microsoft conference that featured it. But now, according to Warren’s coworker Lauren Goode, Microsoft has released its “spectator view” as an open source solution. Check it out on the HoloLens GitHub page. Read More
Migrating business to the cloud – and how to calm down clients who feared the prospect of change – became a big topic at last year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference, Izenda members who participated tell us. This year a team from Izenda again will descend on Orlando for WPC 2015. Read More
The release of Microsoft Edge next month comes with an accelerated cut in support for various Internet Explorer releases, with some of those coming years earlier than anticipated.
Microsoft will stop supporting Internet Explorer 8 in January 2016, but as anyone who has followed announcements about IE should know by now, that doesn’t mean having anything but IE11 installed will be supported. Read More
