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Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air is a sleek Ultrabook for an amazing price. It also beats its Apple namesake in many respects. It’s smaller, lighter and faster. But it might be tricky to buy—outside of China, anyway. Oh, and you can custom-order a famous painting on the lid. Perhaps that’s appropriate, given Picasso’s famous quote. In today’s IT Newspro, good artists copy, great artists steal…

The past few months have resulted in Skype becoming unstable but the team has finally come forward to explain the issues and the future for the communication tool.

For the fourth quarter of Microsoft’s fiscal year, ending June 30th, the company reported revenue of $22.6 billion non-GAAP (20.6 GAAP) with operating income of $3.1 billion GAAP, and $6.2 billion non-GAAP.

Microsoft’s WPC 2016 conference is being held this week in Toronto and the event kicked off with a keynote by Satya Nadella who emphasized how Microsoft and its partners are the foundation of productivity.

Microsoft has announced this morning that it is acquiring LinkedIn for $26.2 billion; Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction.

Microsoft has released its Q1 earnings and there has been strong growth in its cloud services but Windows phone remains a weak spot but Surface performed well.

Blue Whale Web has acquired two companies that will be joining Petri and Thurrott; these two communities will help to provide additional content and educational resources to our readers.

Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference kicks off this week and both Paul and Brad will be there; here’s a list of everything happening this week.

Microsoft is said to be interested in contributing to a bid to buy Yahoo!’s assets but that they only want to be a minority owner.

Microsoft’s new AI experiment, Tay.ai, has been pulled after responding to queries with racist and demeaning remarks.