For people who spend time on computers and smart devices, the proliferation of apps and online services has become a problem. Each service represents its own little island of data or communication.

Microsoft Flow, a service that lets you plumb together various cloud-based services to construct workflows, and PowerApps, a tool to enable non-developers to build data-driven business apps, are both ...

It seems that Microsoft is now getting into the habit (again) of creating new products that can be seen as a rivaling copy of a popular service. Skype Teams, for example, is set to kill Slack.

Microsoft Corp. today updated its Flow task automation tool with new capabilities that among other things speed up the approval process. Microsoft launched Flow in November as a competing platform to ...

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Microsoft Flow, the company’s recently launched workflow management tool, has now arrived on mobile in the form of an iOS application. Essentially a direct competitor to IFTTT, Microsoft Flow debuted ...

Microsoft today is launching a couple of major updates to PowerApps, its low-code service for quickly building line-of-business applications, and Flow, its business-centric IFTTT competitor. While ...

Microsoft appears to be close to launching Flow, a tool that allows users to automate actions from various web accounts such as Salesforce, Twitter and OneDrive. Microsoft has accidentally revealed ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. If This Then That (IFTTT) is an incredibly popular tool that enables features for ...