As you may know, we made some changes to OnMSFT.com and Azure this month, and as is normal, we hit a few snags along the way. After some fine tuning, though, we think we're getting close to getting it dialed ... Read more
As it turns out, we've been hosting OnMSFT.com on Azure for a little more than two years, running on an Ubuntu 18.04 VM. Since it has been past time to update Ubuntu (and MySQL and PHP etc), it seemed like ... Read more
Tomorrow, November 26th 2020, is the Thanksgiving US holiday. As such, and throughout this week, news coming out of Microsoft has and will slow down, as the company pauses to celebrate and gather (hopefully mostly virtually) with their families. We're ... Read more
In this week's episode, we have a jam-packed schedule. We recap the hardware news coming out of Microsoft's Surface event, and more.
Welcome to episode 1 of the OnPodcast, the OnMSFT Podcast. We'll talk about Surface Duo, Project Moca, Intel Tiger Lake, and a lot more.
If you follow Microsoft, are a self starter, have experience producing timely, well-written content, and are looking for a part-time commitment of around 15+ hours per week, we are looking for you! OnMSFT has openings for writers conversant in all ... Read more
2020 is going to be a big year for Microsoft. We're expecting launches for everything from Windows 10X to Surface Neo and Duo to the Xbox Series X, Halo 6, xCloud, and (at least) updated versions of Surface Book 2 ... Read more
Dark Mode is the new, well, black. Sites, apps, and operating systems have been rushing to implement dark mode, and OnMSFT.com brought you our own version a few months ago, after having an earlier version go dormant for a time. ... Read more
As you may know, OnMSFT.com runs on Azure, and while we're not in the portal every day, it's one of the many good reasons for our move to Microsoft's cloud. Even though we're running on an Ubuntu Linux box for ... Read more
We've used Disqus, the online commenting system, for years. With built in spam protection, a nice interface, and storage of your comments in the cloud and not on our server, Disqus has made it easy to manage and store comments, ... Read more
Over the New Year's holiday, as you may know, OnMSFT.com moved to a Virtual Machine (Ubuntu 18.04, Nginx, MySQL, WordPress) running on Azure. So far we've been very happy with the move: everything works, and we're paying about half what ... Read more
To be fair, this site has been "in the cloud" for years, running on a VM at Rackspace, but when I took over management of OnMSFT.com last November, I started looking for ways to re-evaluate our expenses. Naturally, one of ... Read more
Happy New Year everyone! Hope all of you are enjoying all that the new year brings. For us here at OnMSFT.com, that's quite a bit, as it turns out. First, a bit of backstory: WinBeta.org, our predecessor until we changed ... Read more
Are you a Windows Insider? Passionate about all things Microsoft? Have experience in blog post writing or are willing to learn? OnMSFT.com is looking for writers knowledgeable about Microsoft, the Windows Insider program, and everything from Azure to Visual Studio. ... Read more
When we made the switch from WinBeta.org to OnMSFT.com, we needed to move away from our (free) legacy Gmail custom domains setup (yeah, we know - Google, ugh!) to a paid solution, and Office 365 was pretty much a no ... Read more
We're still getting settled into our new digs here at OnMSFT.com after making the change from WinBeta.org. While we're really liking our new site and the new look and feel, we've been listening to feedback and some of you would ... Read more
I wanted to take this time and wish Happy Holidays to all our readers and a Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. 2016 is about to come to a close and we're almost ready to ring in the new year. ... Read more
The new OnMSFT website is now live. For those new to the site, welcome. We are a Microsoft-oriented news site and we talk all things Microsoft. For those of you who have been with us while we were known as ... Read more
Congratulations to Ramon from Ft. Myers, Florida, the winner of our Surface Book giveaway! Ramon is a Windows 10 Insider, builds computers for his family, and as he says, he's "NEVER won anything" in his life, so we're happy to ... Read more
At E3, along with breaking news about the Xbox One S and the future Xbox Project Scorpio, Microsoft also unveiled a new way to create custom Xbox controllers that you can create, monogram, and purchase, all from the Microsoft Store. ... Read more