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Microsoft Releases List of Skylake Devices Supported On Windows 7

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has released a list of machines that use Intel’s Skylake CPU that will be supported with Windows 7 and 8.1 for 18 months.

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Creating Azure VMs with Premium Storage

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn walks us through on how to create an Azure virtual machine that uses Azure’s Premium Storage.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: January 22

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

This week’s other news includes a key remaining question about Microsoft’s new Windows support policy for new hardware, Google paid $1 billion to be iPhone search provider, Android revenues, the iPad Pro is not faster than a PC, and Yahoo continues to navel-gaze.

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Understanding PowerShell Custom Properties with the Select-Object cmdlet

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks explains how to use hashtables to create new object properties with Select-Object and why you should.

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The Sams Report EP 25: Skylake Meets Surface, Redstone And Xbox Scoops

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

On this episode, I cover the all the news that Microsoft announced this week including limited support for Skylake CPUs, Xbox news, a new build of Redstone (insider info) and a lot more.

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Dropbox Lands In The Windows Store

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Dropbox has announced that its app is coming to the Windows store and will also be supported on Windows 10 Mobile as well.

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Microsoft Places Windows App Hope On iOS Devs And Marketshare

Last Update: Jun 25, 2025

Microsoft is pinning its hope to build out its app store on the success of Windows 10 and also Islandwood, a ‘bridge’ to porting over iOS apps to Windows.

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Current Status Episode 35: Office 365 with J. Peter Bruzzese

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Co-hosts Theresa Miller and Phoummala Schmitt talk with guest J. Peter Bruzzese (@jpbruzzese), Office Servers and Services MVP.

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Windows 10 Tip: Using the Lumia 950 with Windows Hello

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Russell Smith shares a quick Windows 10 tip for using the Lumia 950 with Windows Hello for increased security.

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Microsoft to Donate $1 Billion in Cloud Capabilities for Non-Profit Organizations

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft announced this week that it will donate $1 billion in “cloud computing resources” over the next five years to nonprofits, faculty researchers, and communities that lack broadband Internet access. The goal is to help transform the cloud from a solution for the privileged into a resource that everyone can use.

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Process Monitoring with PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks shares his script for watching processes using a WMI event subscription using the CIM cmdlets.

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Color Coding with PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks continues his quest to display service statuses in a colorful format.

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