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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was always plain-spoken and honest, and that apparently hasn’t changed a bit since his departure from the company. This week, Microsoft’s biggest shareholder offered his opinion of the firm. And Ballmer offered some overt criticisms that Microsoft should take very seriously.

The Yahoo board of directors will meet this week to determine the fate of the flailing company. And one of the options on the table is for Yahoo to sell off its core assets—online services like Yahoo.com and Yahoo Mail—and effectively end the 20-year-run of the one-time Internet powerhouse.

Learn about new features in the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4 for Hyper-V and related roles and technologies.

On this episode, I talk about Windows turning 30, there was a shakeup in the Windows org, the Lumia 950 is here and a lot more.

On this episode, I talk about how Microsoft has executed its second major push of Windows 10, Surface Dock woes, and where is that Windows 10 Mobile Update.

This week: Microsoft’s new emotion-sensing platform, bad news for UK-based Surface Book fans, and Apple execs mock the products they copied, and much more.

On this episode, I cover the inside story of the changes to OneDrive, a few minor features coming to Redstone and the TH2 release.

With the release of Dynamics 2016 in December, Microsoft will be putting its acquisitions to work as the company integrates its acquired technology.

Executive Editor Brad Sams shares his thoughts on Microsoft’s brand new Surface Book. Read on to find out if it should be on your short list.

In a bid to steal more business users from Microsoft, Google this morning announced that it would wave the fees on its Google Apps for Work offerings.

IT veteran Jeff Hicks shares his thoughts on the nature of lazy IT pros, along with symptoms that are commonly associated with this group of people.

Microsoft has started Project Venus by launching Microsoft Azure Backup Server, which offers more backup functionality and a local disk repository.