Paul Thurrott

Because Thanksgiving, this short week’s other news includes Microsoft’s diversity problem, Android’s future at Microsoft, where Android fragmentation hurts users, Amazon has been breached, and HP Inc.’s slow first (ever) quarter.

This week’s other news includes the 30th anniversary of Windows, Microsoft’s cloud-only future, Google hires ex-VMware CEO for business cloud efforts, more.

Microsoft announced today that it is shifting its security focus to focus on what it calls the mobile first, cloud first world. Trustworthy Computing 2.0?

This week: Microsoft’s new emotion-sensing platform, bad news for UK-based Surface Book fans, and Apple execs mock the products they copied, and much more.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrived in Berlin on Wednesday and announced a significant expansion of the software giant’s commercial cloud efforts in Germany.

Satya Nadella announced a series of Microsoft Cloud expansions in Europe today. Key among them are “multiple” datacenters for just the U.K.

The Internet economy is now worth over $300 billion annually, and only two firms—Amazon.com and Google—control fully 57 percent of that.

This week’s other news includes some user angst over OneDrive cuts, PC makers allegedly dissing Windows 10, Google wants to help design Android CPUs, more.

This week’s other news includes some new Windows 10 controversies, some Surface Book issues, an Android and Chrome OS merger, and more Xbox lemonade.

Apple pulled off another financial miracle, posting a net profit of $11.1 billion on revenues of $51.5 billion for the quarter ending September 30.

With Configuration Manager “vNext” expected by the end of the year, Microsoft has begun explaining how it has changed this product to accommodate Windows 10.

In a wide-ranging interview, European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager pledged to pursue multiple antitrust investigations against Google.