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Poorly imitated but never duplicated, this week’s other news includes Lenovo’s about-face on Superfish, an NSA and GCHQ hack of SIM cards, AT&T jump the shark moment, a confirmation that, yes, North Korea did hack Sony, Microsoft reneges on promise of Finland data center, and Microsoft partners with Mozilla on web games. “Microsoft Has Suddenly…

Crapware and bloatware has been making PC user experiences horrible for decades. Jeff Hicks explains why the Superfish fiasco carries some lessons for PC makers and IT pros as well.

Google has pulled three adware-distributing apps from its Play Store, but only after several millions devices were infected with the malicious software.

While “mobile first, cloud first” has caused some confusion and even fear with fans and users of Microsoft’s client systems, the impact of this strategy on the firm’s on-premises servers is no less dramatic. With worries about the future mounting, Microsoft this week finally began addressing how and when it will update its servers for…

Upgrading Hyper-V Integration Components has traditionally been a very tedious process, but Microsoft is changing that with the next version of Windows Server.

Learn why you should tune into this week’s Windows 10 event, along with Paul Thurrott’s thoughts on why he thinks the new OS from Microsoft will be its best yet.

Google launches the Google Cloud Trace to help developers make their cloud apps faster and more efficient. Jeff James explains why this new tool should mean good things for IT pros using cloud services.

In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us how to export Active Directory groups to a CSV file in Windows PowerShell.

Aidan Finn takes a look back at the biggest headlines in the world of Microsoft this year, and puts together a summary of what he considers to be the top Microsoft news stories of 2014.

Aidan Finn provides an overview of Microsoft Azure online backup, and gives his take on whether the new online backup service is ready for primetime.

Haven’t tried Windows 10 yet? Daniel Petri shows us how to install the Windows 10 Technical Preview in this step-by-step tutorial and deep-dive into the Windows 10 install process.

Aidan Finn teaches us about forced tunneling, a new Azure feature that lets you control the flow of traffic from your Azure virtual networks.