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Microsoft is about to expand the Surface Book availability to 10 new markets with pre-orders opening up tomorrow; retail availability depends on the market.

Windows 10 is now installed on more than 200 million devices with 22 million devices in the enterprise and education sector running the platform; the OS is outpacing Windows 7 and Windows 8 install rate.

Microsoft has been building enterprise email services for decades now and while the GUI around them has changed, the experience remains ultimately the same.

Microsoft on Thursday announced that it will alert users of its consumer cloud services—Outlook.com, OneDrive and so on—when it suspects that governments are trying to hack into their accounts.

It’s hard to believe that 2015 is now behind us, which means that with a new year, it’s time to take a look at what Microsoft is planning for 2016.

Because auld acquaintance should never be forgot, this (short) week’s other news includes Microsoft encryption news from the past, Microsoft v. Corel, someone finally sues Apple over forced obsolescence, and Google is ripping the Java guts out of Android.

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks takes a look at the new Compress-Archive cmdlet in PowerShell 5.0.

Aidan Finn shows us how to implement Storage Spaces inside a Windows Server 2012 R2 Azure virtual machine to aggregate the capacity and performance potential of multiple data disks.

Cisco has said that they will audit their own code to make sure that it is free of back-door holes that would weaken the effectiveness of their products following the Juniper discoveries.

Need to recover a product key quickly? Here’s a free tool to help.

Aidan Finn provides an overview on the role of Azure virtual machine data disks, along with some helpful tips for sizing data disks for capacity.

2015 was a watershed year for Microsoft, with many notable product releases and updates. But Microsoft’s 2015 was in turn both good and bad, a series of ups and downs. Worse, some of its biggest successes were tarnished by unnecessary setbacks.