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Microsoft and Google jointly announced on Friday that the two firms would set aside their regulatory complaints against each other around the world. Now, the firms will only compete in the open market, they say.

Microsoft is working on a new Azure service that will compete with Amazon Glacier for long term data storage.

Learn how to create complex management consoles for managing Windows Server.

Learn to use the new PowerShell resource management cmdlets to provision a VM as a domain controller in Azure.

Microsoft is updating the UAC dialog box in Windows 10 Anniversary Update to include additional authentication options.

Microsoft has announced today a significant number of new features that are coming to Windows 10 with the Anniversary Update that will be released this summer.

On this episode, I cover the all the news that Microsoft announced this week including lots of new features coming to Windows 10, Skype updates, Xbox One/360, traveling and so much more.

Because this happens only four times a year, this edition of Short Takes focuses on Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report: the big picture, plus closer looks at cloud, Windows, Surface, Phone, Xbox and Office.

Microsoft has released its Q1 earnings and there has been strong growth in its cloud services but Windows phone remains a weak spot but Surface performed well.

Learn three quick and easy ways to disable a network connection with the command line in Windows 10.

Office 365 users may wonder about the online versions of the classic Office desktop programs. So how does Office Online measure up, and what is it good for?

PowerShell expert Jeff Hicks shares his ideas on how to find out if a particular feature or application is running on a server. Is this a problem you have?