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On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including some internal musing, the company is trying more ads on the desktop, NYC trip, year end and a lot more.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including a lot of love for mobile users, Thurrott Premium, Microsoft year end, the road to the Anniversary update and a lot more.

Because it’s the end of the world and I feel fine, this edition of Short Takes focuses on the real reason Microsoft paid so much for LinkedIn, Bill Gates wakes up to take LinkedIn, Microsoft buy a bot chat firm, Google employees fight sexism, and more.

On this episode, I cover my own rumor report from E3 and what Microsoft announced, Scorpio, Xbox One S, fiscal year end, Windows development and a lot more.

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Cool Blob Storage in Azure, a new more affordable way to archive files in the cloud. In this post, I’ll explain what Cool Storage is, what Hot Storage is, how they are priced, how to deploy Cool Storage, and what you’ll see in the Azure Portal.

Yesterday, Microsoft pulled the trigger on the blockbuster purchase of LinkedIn in an all-cash deal valued at an incredible $26.2 billion. This isn’t just Microsoft’s biggest acquisition ever, it’s one of the biggest tech acquisitions of all time. And it raises plenty of questions.

On this special report, I cover more about Xbox E3 plans, new build of Windows, and should Microsoft get in trouble for the Windows 10 upgrade tactics?

Learn all about new improvements to failover clustering in Windows Server 2016.

Learn about storage feature improvements in the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5.

Because Microsoft has finally killed all that was special about Nokia, this edition of Short Takes focuses on the Finnish government lashing out at Microsoft, China pirates unhappy about the forced Windows 10 upgrade, Microsoft’s ban of dumb passwords, Microsoft’s and Facebook’s transatlantic subsea cable, and more.

Learn all about the new networking improvements in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5.

On this episode, I cover the all the news that Microsoft announced this week including feature phones going bye bye, browsers market share, promoted apps and its impossible to avoid Google I/O.