Paul Thurrott

Antitrust regulators from the EU’s European Commission (EC) have formally charged U.S.-based mobile chipset maker Qualcomm with two sets of antitrust charges.

Because every day without snow this winter is to be celebrated, this week’s other news includes a major Windows Server 2016 licensing change, “record” Xbox One sales over Black Friday, Samsung will finally pay Apple its blood money, activist investors circle Yahoo like sharks, and appeals panel will rule on net neutrality.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was always plain-spoken and honest, and that apparently hasn’t changed a bit since his departure from the company. This week, Microsoft’s biggest shareholder offered his opinion of the firm. And Ballmer offered some overt criticisms that Microsoft should take very seriously.

The Yahoo board of directors will meet this week to determine the fate of the flailing company. And one of the options on the table is for Yahoo to sell off its core assets—online services like Yahoo.com and Yahoo Mail—and effectively end the 20-year-run of the one-time Internet powerhouse.

Microsoft on Monday announced a major update to the commercial versions of Office 365 that will enable Skype for Business to replace traditional business phone systems.

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.

Dell says it inadvertently shipped new PCs with a potential security vulnerability. This lapse has drawn comparisons to Lenovo’s Superfish fiasco.

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.