Russell Smith

This Week in IT, I show you the future of search engines in action! Microsoft’s Bing Prometheus is set to revolutionize search with its integration of ChatGPT. Join me as I unveil the lightning-fast speed and accuracy of Bing Prometheus in answering your questions!

It’s been a busy month. Microsoft started testing the next Windows 11 ‘moment’, plus the Unified Update Platform (UUP) is coming to WSUS and ConfigMgr at the end of March. And Microsoft is now officially supporting Windows on Arm on Apple silicon. And much more! So, let’s get started. Windows 11 ‘Moment’ drops Microsoft announced…

This Week in IT, Microsoft reveals details of how its new Prometheus A.I. model for Bing works and a faster more efficient Teams client is coming in preview to users in March.

Tauri is a cross-platform programming framework based on Rust. In this article, you’ll learn why Tauri might take over from Electron as the cross-platform framework of choice and how the framework is used. What is the Tauri framework? Tauri is a relatively new cross-platform application framework. Many apps we use day-to-day, like Slack, Microsoft Teams,…

Windows 11 on Arm is now officially supported on Apple Silicon, but it’s not all good news if you want to run Windows on Apple’s M1 or M2 Macs.

As energy prices continue to soar and IT departments are squeezed even tighter, many IT organizations are looking at how they can reduce energy costs in their datacenters and across their PC fleets. If you are still running outdated server hardware, haven’t blown the dust out of your rack cooling systems, and are still using…

Could internal developer platforms (IDP) revolutionize software delivery with the power of platform engineering? Or is it just a fancy name for DevOps? This Week in IT, I look at how platform engineering could mean saying goodbye to complexity and uncertainty, and saying hello to improved developer productivity and streamlined workflows. From building IDPs to…

This Week in IT, could a new framework based on Rust spell the end of slow, resource-intensive apps, like Microsoft Teams that are based on Electron? I look at Tauri, and how in the future it could replace Electron to improve the end-user experience in many popular consumer and enterprise apps. What is Tauri? on…

Windows has had a slow start to 2023. But nevertheless, there are some interesting pieces of news to share, including a 39 percent drop in Windows revenue from PC makers in FY2023 Q2, tabs coming to Notepad, an updated design for File Explorer, and more. So, let’s get started. Windows revenue plummets 39 percent in…

Uncovering Hidden Risks is a new monthly podcast from the Microsoft Security team that looks at taking the data security conversation beyond compliance and classifications. How do you protect data but still make sure people are productive? Host Erica Toelle talks to Microsoft and industry experts about reducing the risk of data breaches by taking…

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This week, during its quarterly earnings call, Microsoft reported that revenue is up two percent year-on-year. But there were definitely some winners and fairly major losers. Not to diminish the layoffs that Microsoft announced the week before but the future looks solid. Windows revenue from PC makers plummets What might have been a shock for…