Russell Smith

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 If you are still running outdated server hardware, haven’t blown the dust out of your rack cooling systems, and are still using…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…

This Week in IT, Gartner lets slip what corporate users really think about Windows 11, Microsoft invests big time in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, Windows revenue plummets in FY23 Q2 and Azure and Microsoft 365 go offline for many users around the world.

In this article, I’ll show you how to successfully install Windows 11 or Windows Server 2022 in VMware Workstation 17 Pro. It’s taken more than a year for VMware to release a new version of VMware Workstation Pro that officially supports Windows 11. But there are still some issues that haven’t been resolved since the…

This Week in IT, researchers claim ChatGPT could be used to create malware that can morph to evade detection. So, I discuss what you might do about that today. Googles says Chromium will start to phase in the use of Rust to improve security without affecting performance. And Twitter officially bans third-party developers using its…

This Week in IT, Microsoft’s Panos Panay revealed what the future of Windows might look like at CES. In today’s episode, I look at how A.I will affect the rollout of Windows 12 and what it might mean for those on old hardware.

In this article, you will learn how to edit the Windows 11 hosts file.  The Windows 11 hosts file is an essential tool that allows you to override DNS settings. There are several easy ways that you can edit the file, and in this article, I will take you through each method step-by-step. In the…