Brad Sams

Google is continuing to expand its infastracutre to better compete with Amazon and Microsoft; Gartner is starting to recognize the company’s new initiatives and has listed them as a visionary.

Delta is experencing a global outage of its computer system becuase of a power outage at its headquarters which raises the question as to why they don’t have a backup facility located in another part of the country.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including now more feature releases this year, cutting features from Windows 10 Pro, Anniversary update and Xbox One S release.

Microsoft has indicated that there will be no more feature updates to WIndows 10 in 2016 and that two updates are coming in 2017; one release is likely tied to a hardware refresh.

Microsoft has quietly changed the rollback period in Windows 10 that allows you to move to revert to an older build of Windows from 30 to 10 days.

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its REST API for Excel that will extend the capaiblites of the spreadsheet application to new products.

Microsoft is removing more features from Windows 10 Pro to entice more businesses to move to the monthly subscription service that will launch this fall for the Enterprise edition of Windows 10.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including my trip to campus, layoffs, Simplo batteries, and a final reminder.

Microsoft has announced that they will further cut their employee count by over 2000 staff by the end of fiscal year 2017.

Microsoft has completed the Anniversary update, also known as Redstone 1 and the company is now preparing for the full release to all 350 million Windows 10 users.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including hitting RTM, OneWeek, Billions, Office upgrades and a bit of travel next week.

Microsoft’s Surface Hub, the device designed for the conference room and can cost as much as $21,999, is a hit and the company is ramping up production to meet demand.