Microsoft Debuts New Services, Partners With Adobe

Windows Defender Application Guard for Microsoft Edge offers browser security. It is powered by virtualization-based security technology and uses isolated containers built directly into the hardware to prevent malicious code from moving across employee devices and the corporate network. The product will be available to Windows 10 Enterprise customers next year and soon to Windows Insiders.

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP) and Office 365 ATP now share intelligence mutually across both services.

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection will be extended to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Additional enhancements include dynamic delivery, which enables users to receive email immediately with a placeholder attachment while the actual attachment undergoes scanning, and URL detonation, which analyzes links in real time to identify unknown malicious URLs.

Office 365 Threat Intelligence provides alerts and information on the origination of specific attacks, integrates with existing security incident event management (SIEM) systems, and enables customers to deploy dynamic policies based on the nature of the threat.

Outlook for iOS and Android is now fully powered by the Microsoft Cloud for Office 365 commercial users. It supports Exchange Online mailboxes natively so that no mailbox data is cached outside Office 365.

Enterprise Mobility + Security E5, is a new offering that expands security to help the transition to mobility and cloud. The product is available Oct. 1. The suite includes the new Microsoft Azure Information Protection service to help organizations classify, label and protect sensitive data.

Secure Productive Enterprise, which offers the latest and most advanced security and productivity capabilities across Office 365, Windows 10 Enterprise and Enterprise Mobility + Security will also be available on Oct. 1.

Microsoft will preview new skills for its personal assistant and AI agent Cortana, including health insights and reminders.

New cloud-powered intelligent capabilities for Office 365 include: Tap in Word and Outlook, which uses the Microsoft Graph to make it easier to incorporate content from existing documents within your organization into your own documents and emails; Quickstarter for PowerPoint and Sway provides curated outlines for any topic, including text and images, that can be used as a starting point to build presentations; andMaps, a new chart type in Excel powered by Bing Maps, transforms geographic data into high-fidelity visualizations.

Microsoft MyAnalytics (formerly Delve Analytics) is a personal analytics service in Office 365 that helps people understand how they spend time at work. New capabilities provide team members and leaders with insights to help find better ways of working together.

Relationship Assistant, included in the soon-to-be-released Dynamics 365 for Sales, adds intelligence to customer engagement.

Microsoft will showcase customers who use Cortana Intelligence to innovate in their industries. Some examples: Lowe’s to deliver a digitally enhanced kitchen remodel experience; and Dymaxia Inc. to make health care more efficient and accessible. Uber announced it is using Microsoft Cognitive Services for its real-time ID check security feature to improve rider and driver security.

Microsoft has deployed a new AI-enabled virtual agent across all of its U.S. support centers to improve customer experience.

General availability for Windows Server 2016 begins in October. Microsoft and Docker Inc. are extending their partnership to make the Commercially Supported Docker Engine available to Windows Server 2016 to customers at no additional cost. System Center 2016 will also be generally available in October, offering a simplified management solution across the data center and the cloud for Windows Server 2016 software-defined data-center features.

New Azure monitoring abilities, combined with Operations Management Suite updates, help IT manage cloud and on-premises assets from one place.

The next technical preview of Azure Stack brings Azure technology to customers’ datacenters, furthering Microsoft’s unique hybrid differentiation.

Microsoft is also deploying custom developed field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that will span 15 countries and five continents. These FPGAs could be used to accelerate AI to near real-time, making Azure the foundation for the world’s first AI supercomputer.