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This week, Microsoft reported earnings for the first quarter of the year, and to say that they had a healthy quarter would be underselling the company’s performance. But that growth was the result of years of hard work and bets on the future that are starting to pay off. As we have seen a couple…

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.

So, you’ve decided to jump straight into the deep-end and backup your data in Microsoft 365. But first, what does that even mean? Are you planning to back up user’s workstations to OneDrive or embrace the way Microsoft 365 is architected to provide similar or better capacities than a traditional backup product could provide? If…

Microsoft has released their Q3 earnings release and the company posted big results yet again. It’s clear that the company is one of the big winners in the pandemic-induced digital transformational shift and Microsoft says that there are not any signs of slowing down. One of the many products that performed well for Microsoft during…

It’s that time of the quarter again where Microsoft has released their earnings. For calendar year Q1, fiscal year Q3, Microsoft reported $41.7 billion in revenue, up 19% year over year, with net income of $15.5 billion. Microsoft has once again reported strong earnings and is stating that the digital adoption curves that began last…

For years, the Surface brand has been about pushing boundaries of what’s possible in the PC space to take the ordinary, and attempt to build the extraordinary. From devices like the Surface Pro that defined the brand to hardware like the Surface Book and Studio, Microsoft, on occasion, will push the design elements of the…

As more apps are developed in Linux than ever before, Microsoft recognized that it needed to provide developers with an easy way to build, test, and run Linux apps without leaving the Windows desktop. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was originally designed to provide an integrated Linux terminal environment in Windows without needing to…

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they had planned to retire the top senders and recipient report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365. While I do not know the exact thought process Microsoft went through when making this decision, they clearly didn’t anticipate the widespread backlash from its users. And it sounds like the feedback…

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is an optional feature in Windows 10 that allows developers and system administrators to run Linux shells and command-line applications without installing Linux in a virtual machine (VM). WSL provides developers with an integrated experience so they can develop and test Linux apps without ever leaving their Windows desktop. For…

When we think about administrative rights on Intune-enrolled Windows 10 devices, we need to consider two possible device states for that device: Azure AD joined (AADJ), or Hybrid Azure AD joined (HAADJ).  This is due to the different administrative roles available at the directory level. For Azure AD joined devices, at the time of performing…

Windows Terminal is delivered by Microsoft as a packaged app through the Microsoft Store and on GitHub in MSIX format. But because of the way Windows Terminal is developed and packaged, there are some challenges when it comes to elevating privileges. Users have called for Microsoft to allow tabs in Windows Terminal to optionally run…

Last year, at Build 2020, Microsoft said that it was working on bringing Linux apps to Windows 10 with GUI support. Windows 10 has supported various Linux features and functionality with its subsystem for Linux for a couple of years but missing from the toolset was the ability to use apps that required a GUI….