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Delta is experencing a global outage of its computer system becuase of a power outage at its headquarters which raises the question as to why they don’t have a backup facility located in another part of the country.

This handy Office tip demonstrates two techniques to export images from a Word document.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including now more feature releases this year, cutting features from Windows 10 Pro, Anniversary update and Xbox One S release.

Because I still dream in French, this edition of Short Takes focuses on Apple’s and Microsoft’s new emojis, Nadella’s cloud confirmation, Microsoft is helping ex-employees in Finland find jobs, all kinds of bug bounties, and more.

Microsoft has indicated that there will be no more feature updates to WIndows 10 in 2016 and that two updates are coming in 2017; one release is likely tied to a hardware refresh.

Russell shows how to create your first Azure SQL Database, configure a firewall and connect to the database using Visual Studio.

Microsoft has quietly changed the rollback period in Windows 10 that allows you to move to revert to an older build of Windows from 30 to 10 days.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at a new feature, coming in next week’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU), that allows Mobile Continuum to connect to the display of any device running Windows 10, without Microsoft’s Display Dock or additional peripherals. In the time since I wrote Windows 10 Continuum: Could Your Next Phone…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its REST API for Excel that will extend the capaiblites of the spreadsheet application to new products.

In this article about GitHub for Windows, learn how to add branches to GitHub repos, create pull requests and deal with merge conflicts.

For some customers that use Office 365 or Office 2013 and try to upgrade to Office 2016 apps, they may lose Skype for Business.

Microsoft HoloLens is now available to all. Redmond wants more businesses and developers to get going with its augmented-reality Windows headset. No longer do you need an invitation. And along with the latest build of Windows 10 come a container-load of new, enterprisey features. But it may (or may not) still cost $3000. In today’s IT Newspro, we mow the lawn like it’s 1992…