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Because it’s the ides of March, this edition of Short Takes looks at Huawei’s Plan B, a Windows 7 courtesy reminder, Windows 10 automatic driver rollback, Microsoft v. Foxconn, and much, much more.

Microsoft’s rolling out a new service that is designed to make it easier to build content with integrated matchmaking, communication, and many other features for game developers.

Hybrid cloud availability can be difficult because most businesses are running a mixture of many different technologies that all need to be available in order to support their business-critical applications. Availability in the hybrid cloud needs to begin at the design phase of your application infrastructure.

If your software hasn’t made the switch to using Coordinated Universal Time, then now might be the right time.

Starting next month, Microsoft will be rolling out ‘nag’ screens for Windows 7 that will inform you that the OS will soon reach its end of life servicing.

Microsoft has deployed a new feature of Windows 10 that will automatically rollback failed updates when it detects a failed startup.

Artificial intelligence is of major interest to Microsoft right now, so it really shouldn’t be a surprise that Jeffrey Snover, one of their technical chiefs, is now heading the charge to bring AI to the Office 365 substrate. Quite what this means for the internal operations of Office 365, applications and clients, and customers is to be seen, but some interesting times lie ahead in the evolution of Office 365.

To help business leaders better understand these technologies, Microsoft is launching AI Business School, a new learning program targeted at executives.

This is how you can edit files on a remote Linux server using Microsoft’s VS Code.

Because Punxsutawney Phil is a lying liar who lies, this edition of Short Takes looks Windows 10 stumbling to 800 million active devices, an open source Windows Calculator, Microsoft’s two new datacenters in Africa, and so much more.

Microsoft has flipped the switch and you can now integrate a Yammer conversation directly into Teams.

If you have a small Office 365 tenant, you probably don’t need to use Teams messaging policies to control user access to Teams features. But larger tenants soon discover that policy-based management is a great way to control the functionality available to select sets of Teams users. Here’s how to create and assign a policy to users through the Teams Admin Center or PowerShell.