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• Customers roast Microsoft over security bulletins' demise

  Users fume over extra time and effort added to their workloads because of the switch.

• Microsoft vs. Apple: Strategies change but the battle continues

  Microsoft and Apple are both successful in the enterprise, but these two tech giants have claimed that success using different strategies (while also at times stealing from the other’s playbook).

• G Suite vs. Office 365 cloud collaboration battle heats up

  Microsoft's Office 365 has a big lead, but Google is quickly repositioning G Suite for business and winning some big customers. Who will come out on top in this rapidly evolving market?

• Microsoft Teams readies for battle in highly contested collaboration space

  Microsoft's recent release Teams, a chat-based collaboration app, is counting on it's tight integration with Office 365 to succeed in a crowded collaboration space.

• Microsoft supports creative work with tech-enabled spaces

  Microsoft has partnered with commercial architecture and design specialist Steelcase to help organizations better integrate technology and workspaces to transform company culture and better support creative work.

• AWS, Microsoft and Google take different paths to the cloud

  CIOs concerned about betting too heavily on a single vendor for cloud services hear pitches from the industry’s leading vendors.

• 10 most popular hybrid tablet stories of 2016

  Every year technology gets more sophisticated and that couldn't be more true for hybrid tablets in 2016. These multipurpose devices range in form factor, performance and price. Here are the 10 most-read tablet articles from 2016.

• Making sense of Microsoft's messy collaboration strategy

  Microsoft's Office 365 suite recently expanded with more apps for enterprise collaboration, but will the-more-the-merrier approach prevail, or is consolidation inevitable?

• Microsoft and LinkedIn aim for ‘logical’ integrations

  Microsoft and LinkedIn are now officially one company with a common vision for the future of work and social collaboration. Analysts say early integration plans reveal priorities across both platforms.

• Microsoft embraces open source in the cloud and on-premises

  Microsoft is positioning itself as the software vendor of choice for enterprises that maintain hybrid cloud environments, and it's opening its arms to Linux and open source software to do it.

• Best Black Friday 2016 Windows deals

  Microsoft, Best Buy, Staples and other retailers roll out the Windows laptop and tablet offers for Black Friday 2016

• Why Microsoft is going all-in on AI

  Microsoft has positioned artificial intelligence as being as important as Windows, Office and Cloud. Here's why.

• Why Slack should worry about Facebook, Microsoft and Google

  The market for enterprise messaging and collaboration apps is bigger and more crowded than ever before. Experts tell CIO.com why the market is bustling now, where it’s heading and why Slack now faces stiff competition.

• The future of Drupal could be cooking in this lab

  Acquia Labs has no illusions of making self-driving cars or shooting things into space like Google X, but the budding applied research arm of enterprise open-source Drupal provider Acquia does have designs on a slew of new applications for what it anticipates will be an increasingly browserless world.

• Microsoft Teams targets Slack in crowded collaboration market

  Microsoft took its time developing the Teams collaboration app for enterprise, but the service's success will likely have less to do with timing and everything to do with its 85 million Office 365 customers.