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Microsoft’s FY17 Q2 results posted on January 26 boasted a 49% year-over-year growth in commercial Office 365 revenues, contributing to an annualized run rate for commercial cloud products that now “exceeds” $14 billion. The number of cloud users has grown again, underlying the continuing movement of work to the Office 365 and Azure.

Microsoft has released its second quarter earnings (first quarter calendar) with revenue of $24.1 billion GAAP, and $26.1 billion non-GAAP; this tops analysts estimates for the quarter.

Microsoft is working on a new shell for Windows that is internally being called Cloud Shell that looks to modernize Windows 10.

Microsoft has long used OWA as the test-bed client for new features. After all, it’s easy to update a web client. Now they’ve added the ability to integrate content stored in Office 365 Groups in OWA searches. It’s a nice feature, as is the message digest for Office 365 updates that you can have sent to your mailbox.

Find out how to use the Azure portal to save JSON templates from an existing resource group.

Learn how to create a new taskpad view in a Microsoft management console (MMC).

Dell has released two new displays that are set to challenge the Surface Hub but there are a few notable differences you should be aware of before purchasing.

A federal appeals court refused to reconsider a previous decision in which the U.S. DOJ was prevented from forcing Microsoft to hand over customer data stored overseas.

Microsoft is updating OneDrive for Business with several new features and is also adding a stand-alone Mac application.

Microsoft is expanding its Office 365 presence in Germany while also saying that the company is committed to the UK market.

Todd and Shane discuss SharePoint Online conditional access, PowerShell, Privacy Dashboard, an AI company, and trolling the patent filings.

Microsoft today announced an initiative that will push back against Chromebooks in education. It involves a new version of Intune and inexpensive Windows 10 PCs for schools.