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As 2016 comes to an end, one of my favorite things to do is to take a look at all the content we published this year to see what resonated well with our audience.

Microsoft released 71 fixes this month, 3 of which are rated Critical and 68 Important. While three are publicly known at the time they were released, none are believed to be in active use by hackers. Windows and Windows Server Microsoft released an update for CVE-2022-21990, which is a Remote Desktop Client (RDP) remote code…

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s announcement to remove all the infrastructure features, such as scale-out file server and Hyper-V from Nano Server.

The Focused Inbox is the keynote feature of the Outlook for iOS and Android mobile clients. All other clients in the Outlook family have used the Clutter feature, which processes mail on the server and removes unimportant items into the Clutter folder. Now Microsoft is dropping Clutter and introducing the Focused Inbox across the entire Outlook family. Rationalization and commonality is good, especially when features that really work are made available to all clients. Here’s how the changeover will occur.

In the VMworld 2013 keynote, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger touts IT as a service (ITaaS) and unveils VMware vSphere 5.5 and VMware vCloud Suite 5.5

Microsoft has announced a change in strategy for Azure Stack where they will be working with vendors to certify hardware for the platform.

Aidan Finn explains what Shared Virtual Hard Disk Sets are and why to use them to create shared virtual storage on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V.

Aidan Finn delves into the mists of the future to discover what will work and what will not in the world of Hyper-V and the Microsoft cloud in 2018.

Because I’m about to be gonged again, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s market cap, the Fall Creators Update, Microsoft’s iffy security disclosure history, and much more.

Waffling over virtualization options? Check out this op-ed comparison between WS2012 R2 Hyper-V and VMware vSphere 5.5 from the Hyper-V perspective.