Cloud Computing

This week: Microsoft’s share of the enterprise cloud, the missing Windows 7 convenience rollup, Microsoft’s iOS porting tools move forward, Intel meets expectations while Xiaomi does not, and Xbox One just can’t catch a break.

Microsoft has announced a price reduction for some of its Azure services which mirror a recent price drop by Amazon as both companies compete fiercely for new business.

Learn about the Git version control system (VCS) and the cloud GitHub service.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been awarded a rare honor with an invitation to attend U.S. President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address tomorrow night, on Tuesday, January 12.

Blair Kellerhals outlines Jumpcloud’s Rajat Bhargava’s DevOps predictions for 2016, which include a shift toward containers and much more.

Microsoft is a company that “gets” productivity … and not much else. And it should stop pretending, or even aspiring, to do anymore more than just dominating productivity.

After a tumultuous year in which it planned to sell off its $31 billion Alibaba stake and reassert itself as an Internet media giant, Yahoo is reversing course. It will now spin off its core business and all of its other non-Alibaba assets instead.

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.

HPE is hosting its Discover event this week in London where they announced a new hybrid cloud service with the help of Microsoft.