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Google can’t seem to catch a break these days: the Internet search giant faces several antitrust investigations in Europe, and recent revelations that the US Federal Trade Commission should have pursued an antitrust case against the firm in this country have only damaged the reputations of both entities. But now Google is being accused, again,…

Because the wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round, this week’s other news includes a new Microsoft paid leave program for contract employees, Microsoft is still looking at running Android apps on Windows Phone, fake Apple Store employees, overpaid tech industry leaders, more Secure Boot non-concerns for Linux users, and the return of Blackberry…

Microsoft announced a variety of business software and service offerings during a Monday morning keynote at the Convergence 2015 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Pledging to transform business by putting data to work, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hailed the software giant’s efforts as a “culture of empowerment.” “Businesses are hungry to seize new opportunities using technologies…

Blair Greenwood shares her list of top SQL Server experts on Twitter to follow on Twitter to make your SQL Server learning experience easier.

Russell Smith serves us three helpful ways to connect to the Office 365 Reporting Service from Excel for easier report viewing.

Last week was a moment of reckoning for the world’s biggest PC maker as Lenovo was thrust awkwardly into the spotlight for preinstalling malware on its consumer PCs. Lenovo belatedly did the right thing, but not before it tried to defend the indefensible and argue that the Superfish malware it was bundling on PCs was…

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.