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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Cloud OS appears to follow the same path as Windows RT but will this SKU succeed the second time around?

Install the RTM version of the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10.

Microsoft appears to be working on a new SKU for Windows called Cloud and early signs of its arrival have appeared in the latest Insider release.

Learn how to reset Windows Server security to default settings.

Because there’s nothing quite like the bitter taste of Starbucks coffee, this edition of Short focuses largely on Microsoft’s quarterly financial results.

Use virtual desktops in Windows 10 to improve productivity.

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).