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Microsoft is continuing to roll out new Insider builds of the next feature update to Windows 10, due early next year. At this point, changes are minimal, as testing is winding down.

Amazon has filed officially to protest Microsoft's win of the $10 billion U.S. Department of Defense JEDI cloud contract.

Salesforce also has cloud agreements to use Amazon's and Google's clouds for various workloads, making it a multi-cloud poster child.

Microsoft is continuing to forge ahead with Windows 10 on Arm with a test version of its native Arm Chromium-based Edge browser, plus (possibly) x64 app emulation on the platform.

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott is going to be heading up Microsoft's combined AI and Research Group, effective immediately. Harry Shum, who has been heading up the group, is leaving the company, but there's no official word on where he's going.

Microsoft Endpoint Manager is a new brand and bundle which encompasses both ConfigMgr and Intune, along with other products and services.

Microsoft's Windows 10 19H2 feature update, codenamed 'Vanadium,' is starting to roll out to mainstream users.

Microsoft plans to discontinue a couple more of its SMB-focused apps next year, and also is dropping its Skype Translator bot in favor of an integrated Skype Translated Conversations feature.

Microsoft's augmented-reality HoloLens 2 headset is beginning to roll out to customers in select countries worldwide.

Microsoft is continuing to forge ahead with its mission of making meetings better with a new white-glove meeting-room management service, as well as more new features in its Teams collaboration platform.

Starting with Outlook on iOS, Cortana can play users' emails, help with calendar scheduling and more.

Ignite 2019: Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser is inching closer to the finish line. A near-final Release Candidate is available now and the final is coming in January, 2020.

Ignite 2019: Microsoft is continuing to add more features to its Power Platform, the collection of low-code and no-code tools including Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate.

Ignite 2019: Microsoft is adding a new, Microsoft-Graph-powered knowledge-management service to Office 365. Here's what 'Project Cortex' is and how it will work.

At Ignite 2019, Microsoft is announcing new branding and a new strategy meant to make Azure the place IT pros will manage their edge, on-premises and multi-cloud software and services. Here's my best attempt to demystify the new hybrid announcements.

Microsoft is looking for new ways to encourage people to use Office apps on their mobile phones by combining lightweight versions of the core apps into a single app.

Microsoft is at capacity with some of its Azure resources in the East US2 region, users are reporting, and Microsoft acknowledges it is placing restrictions on additional quota on some customers there.

Microsoft will give IT a way to turn off self-servicing and is moving back the intended start date for its Power Platform self-servicing changes as a result of user pushback.

Microsoft has released a preview of a new Microsoft Q&A service meant to help users find answers to technical questions.

Microsoft's plan to try to undo some of its past missteps around its Windows app development strategy is moving ahead.