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Microsoft has announced that if you are planning to run Windows 7 on a Skylake CPU, there will be limited support for new machines that ends on July 17, 2017.

This week: Microsoft’s share of the enterprise cloud, the missing Windows 7 convenience rollup, Microsoft’s iOS porting tools move forward, Intel meets expectations while Xiaomi does not, and Xbox One just can’t catch a break.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows us how to send text messages using Cortana in Windows 10 and how to make sure missed call notifications are enabled.

On this episode, I cover the all the news that Microsoft announced this week including how the company is working to speed up the adoption of Windows 10.

Later this year, Microsoft will be releasing a new update for Windows 10 called Redstone and it is said to enable ARM64 support across all device categories support.

Microsoft has announced a price reduction for some of its Azure services which mirror a recent price drop by Amazon as both companies compete fiercely for new business.

Learn how Office 365’s OneDrive for Business can boost employee productivity with its collaboration tools for the cloud.

Learn about the Git version control system (VCS) and the cloud GitHub service.

Thanks to documentation spotted on Microsoft’s website, it looks like the company has built a version of Windows 10 that runs on ARM chips and may even have a compiler for Win32 apps as well.

Microsoft’s next step in getting users to upgrade to Windows 10 will focus on domain joined machines with an updated app that will roll out later this month.

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks continues his exploration of using and extending objects to solve a scripting challenge.

Microsoft has posted its ChakraCore repository to GitHub which means that anyone in the open source community can now submit code that could ship with the Edge browser.