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Because Paris, vous me manques déjà, this edition of Short Takes focuses on more Microsoft layoffs related to phone disaster, Microsoft’s phone sales revealed, Windows 10 Upgradegate triggers lawsuits, Windows NT 4.0 turns 20, and so much more.

Microsoft has announced that they will further cut their employee count by over 2000 staff by the end of fiscal year 2017.

Learn how to configure Remote Desktop Services (RDS) collections using Windows PowerShell, including how to create, enumerate, and remove collections from RDS Connection Brokers, and how to add and remove RemoteApps to collections.

Learn to use migAz to move Classic / Service Management / SM Azure IaaS virtual machine deployments to Azure Resource Manager / ARM in another subscription.

Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air is a sleek Ultrabook for an amazing price. It also beats its Apple namesake in many respects. It’s smaller, lighter and faster. But it might be tricky to buy—outside of China, anyway. Oh, and you can custom-order a famous painting on the lid. Perhaps that’s appropriate, given Picasso’s famous quote. In today’s IT Newspro, good artists copy, great artists steal…

On Tuesday, Apple announced the results of its most recent quarter, posting net income of $7.8 billion on revenues of $42.4 billion. But the firm sold fewer iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches than it did a year ago, for the second quarter in a row.

Learn how to get started with GitHub for Windows. We’ll install it, add accounts, clone a repository, commit changes and sync repositories.

Aidan shows how to migrate your virtual machines from Azure Classic Service Managment (ASM) API to the newer Azure Resource Manager (ARM) API.

Learn how to configure Remote Desktop Services collections in Windows Server 2012 R2.

Microsoft Windows 10 gets its birthday build. But the Anniversary Edition isn’t just about pushing consumers to upgrade before Friday’s freebie deadline. It also brings loveliness for professional users. Enterprises large and small will see it working more smoothly, reliably and securely—according to Redmond. But not everything smells of roses. In today’s IT Newspro, we dig the dirt on “1607”. [Updated 3:41 am PT with more comment]

Microsoft has completed the Anniversary update, also known as Redstone 1 and the company is now preparing for the full release to all 350 million Windows 10 users.

According to multiple reports, Verizon Wireless will announce as soon as Monday morning that it will acquire Yahoo’s core business for $4.8 billion. The firm will combine Yahoo with AOL, another former Internet giant, bolstering its digital media and advertising offerings.