Cloud Computing

Learn how one IT pro uses the public cloud to be more productive in his day-to-day work.

Because Microsoft loves Linux and I feel weird, this edition of Short Takes focuses on some Microsoft/Linux musings, another PS 4 victory, Google’s self-driving car attacks a bus, a government filing and Apple backlash in encryption case, and a new F.C.C. privacy rule proposal.

Russell Smith outlines Microsoft’s plans for its enterprise cloud storage service OneDrive for Business.

Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith testified ahead of a U.S. Congressional hearing this week that conflicting and outdated international laws are hampering the tech industry’s ability to protect personal privacy and keep the public safe.

Following in the august footsteps of China, Russia is the latest totalitarian state that is publicly seeking to “ban” Microsoft Windows and replace it with less U.S.-centric technologies.

Google umbrella Alphabet announced its first-ever consolidated earnings report, with the firm beating expectations. But investors were perhaps most excited by a post-earnings stock price bump that propelled Alphabet ahead of Apple as the most successful company on earth

Microsoft is underwater. Literally. The software giant is testing a prototype data center that can operate hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean, in a bid to eliminate air conditioning costs.

The enterprise has many challenges ahead for 2016, but with proper planning and training, downtime and security alerts should be kept to a manageable state.

Microsoft announced this week that it will donate $1 billion in “cloud computing resources” over the next five years to nonprofits, faculty researchers, and communities that lack broadband Internet access. The goal is to help transform the cloud from a solution for the privileged into a resource that everyone can use.

Microsoft announced this morning its acquisition of MinecraftEdu, a version of the blockbuster game Minecraft that is built for the classroom, for an undisclosed sum