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Microsoft has announced the date and location for Microsoft Ignite 2016, and it looks like it will be coming back to Chicago.

Aidan Finn reports on how Microsoft is trying to rebuild their relationship with IT pros, starting with the keynote at Microsoft Ignite 2015.

The Office 2016 preview is now available in preparation for general availability in fall 2015 and includes a slew of new capabilities for better IT management.

Aidan Finn discusses his top five most wanted improvements to Microsoft Azure, which include changes to strategy, management, and pricing.

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.

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.

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…

  European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Wednesday formally accused Google of violating antitrust laws by abusing its dominance in Internet search to harm competitors and consumers. Additionally, Ms. Vestager said that her European Commission was investigating whether Google forces phone makers to favor its own services on the Android mobile OS. Google controls…

Aidan Finn discusses how Microsoft is limiting their potential market by arbitrarily restricting features or limiting services to one or a few countries.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy Microsoft Anti-Malware to Azure virtual machines at scale with scanning exceptions and schedules using PowerShell.

Because your Apple Watch isn’t arriving until June anyway, this week’s other news includes Microsoft’s mobile payments mulligan, the secret plan to advertise Windows 10 to Windows 7/8.1 users, PC sales fell again in the first quarter, Apple Watch debuts, the EU is serious about Google, and Lynda.com gets a big payday. Microsoft to try,…