Joe Friend, a former Microsoft manager laid off in May, shares why his next role won't be in Big Tech.

Friend's layoff in May disrupted his retirement plans. He intended to stay at Microsoft until at least his 65th birthday, a milestone that would allow most of his stock grants to continue vesting.

Microsoft recently announced at the Microsoft Management Summit its intention to expand its management offerings. Microsoft’s Management Business Unit is now the Enterprise Management Division, which ...

Joe Friend, a 62-year-old former Microsoft director, was laid off after 20 years, disrupting his retirement plans. Despite ...

I spent last week at Microsoft’s 2006 Management Summit in San Diego. There were many interesting announcements as Microsoft matures in the management space. The company made a big deal out of what is ...

The latest Microsoft Management Summit has wrapped up, and on top of the software giant's IT management agenda for the coming year is cloud and SaaS-based delivery. RedMonk's Michael Coté also ...

The $3 trillion club is getting surprisingly crowded. After Apple became the inaugural member, Microsoft and Nvidia have ...

Microsoft is dropping plans to combine several of its management software titles into a single package, saying customers wanted the products to remain separate. The company had planned to combine its ...

Microsoft announced this week that it has added two new capabilities to Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) at the "general availability" release stage. Commercially released are "PIM ...

One of my favorite smaller details about Microsoft Loop is how it treats web links. Sure, you can embed links in your page ...

Microsoft has announced the release of SQL Server Management Studio Preview 3, which brings many features, including "initial ...

Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) that businesses can use to store and manage large amounts of data.