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The PowerShell Summit is coming to a close, and Jeff Hicks provides some insight into where PowerShell is headed and how it affects the IT pro’s career in the future.

“I feel the need, the need for speed.” That’s what Tom Cruise first said and now almost everyone is saying it. We want things faster! With the ever increasing need for speed and faster performance, enterprise and consumers alike are turning to Solid State Drives (SSD). Will SSD save us from latency pains? Do you still…

Will Microsoft’s Lumia 640 be able to boost Windows Phone sales in 2015?

Google on Wednesday announced Project Fi, a new low-cost cell phone service that it is launching in the United States. Fi will ride on the backs of Sprint and T-Mobile and will seamlessly switch to Wi-Fi when available, even for phone calls and text messages. But as you may expect, it comes with some serious…

This year’s Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Summit focused on highlighting the latest cloud security threats and how IT security professionals can mitigate them.

With the RSA Conference 2015 as a backdrop, Microsoft has announced some new security improvements and features for Office 365.

Aidan Finn reviews a book that takes a historical look at the rise of Apple and Google to rise from the shadows of Microsoft’s then monopoly.

The PowerShell Summit North America 2015 is under way, and Jeff Hicks gives us a rundown of the announcements made by Microsoft at the event.

  Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer may have driven a tougher bargain with Microsoft than originally expected: According to a recently revealed regulatory filing, both Yahoo and Microsoft can now terminate their recently renegotiated search deal as soon as October 2015, a full five years earlier than before. This is a fairly stunning achievement for Mayer, who…

Learn how to identify a computer name with a custom ping sweep tool created in Windows PowerShell.

Russell Smith walks us through on how to search the file system in PowerShell and provides steps on how to query the Windows Search index using SQL.

Last year’s TechEd was the last for the long-running conference, but the most notable thing about it was the utter lack of on-premises announcements. But on the eve of TechEd’s successor, Ignite—which gets underway in two weeks in Chicago—it’s clear that TechEd 2014 wasn’t an exception. Microsoft’s move to the cloud has seriously hindered its…