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Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is in serious trouble with sales slumping to a new low and the company openly supporting other platforms.

Because Microsoft just announced its quarterly earnings, this edition of (not so) Short Takes focuses on how well its various business segments are doing: Cloud, Windows 10, Surface, Phone, Xbox, Office 365 and Office, and more.

Microsoft’s Surface line of hardware has once again become a billion dollar operation for the company with Q2 results besting that of last year.

Microsoft has announced their second quarter earnings today (fourth quarter calendar year) and it was healthy period for the company.

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks continues his exploration of the information stream in v5 and demonstrates how to use Write-Host as a wrapper.

Aidan Finn tests whether it’s possible to achieve 50,000 IOPS with a Microsoft Azure VM.

Microsoft has announced new co-authoring support for Office Online and is also expanding the services that can connect with Outlook.com

Discover how easy it is to secure your daily PowerShell work with a persistent credential that you don’t have to remember to use.

Have you ever used a resource group in Azure? If you have never consciously used a resource group, then it’s time to start reconsidering.

Apple delivered a knockout punch in its quarterly earnings as always, but warnings about slowing iPhone sales growth did not go far enough: The business was essentially flat when measured against the same quarter a year ago, the first time ever that iPhone sales haven’t grown.

Microsoft has released a new PowerBI app that lets users you to view your data in a touch-friendly environment on your PC.

Microsoft’s Azure Stack brings the power of Azure to your local data center and the company will be releasing a technical preview of the software on Friday.