Happy Friday! Let’s close out September, and the week, with another great round of reader questions. Amazon tsunami of products madthinus asks: Any of the Amazon announcements that has caught your eye? Yes, but the most impressive thing about this week’s Amazon press conference was the sheer scope of its announcements; it was a real…

Microsoft announced today that it is supporting the addition of its exFAT file system to the Linux kernel.

Looking back at Microsoft’s history from a software development perspective, I’m struck by how dedicated the firm remained over time to BASIC, the language that co-founder Bill Gates sold as its first commercial product. Microsoft championed BASIC far past the point that its competitors did, and it even proved some wrong about this dated language…

Intel's latest generation of NUC mini-PCs and kits represent a major step up from the NUC I reviewed two years ago.

On the eve of Google IO, and while Microsoft was talking up IoT at its own developer show, Google announced the release of Android Things 1.0.

Microsoft announced this week that it has made the initial release of PowerShell Core available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

After a successful first-gen NexDock device in 2016, the firm is jumping on board with the Intel Compute Card for 2017.

In this episode of Windows Weekly, we discuss three upcoming back-to-back Microsoft events, A new date for Redstone 2, and more.

Tech tidbits from around the web: This is your final month to buy a Windows 7 or 8.1 PC, Windows 10 usage share sort-of dropped in September, new PIXEL UI brings a bit of desktop elegance to Raspberry Pi, EU will reportedly charge Google with Android-related antitrust abuses, more.

About a month and a half after a freak factory fire destroyed its first shipment, NexDock has emailed customers to alert them that the first orders are now shipping.

In this episode of Windows Weekly, Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and I discuss Microsoft's $26.2 billion LinkedIn acquisition, the amazing Xbox news from E3, new Insider builds of Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile, and other Microsoft news.

Billed as the world's most affordable laptop, the NexDock is an amazing idea come to life: It's a laptop shell that can transform a modern Windows phone into a real portable PC and deliver on Microsoft's Continuum promise for Mobile.

to get ready for Build 2016, let's take a look back at last year's show and see how Microsoft came through---or didn't---on its 2015 initiatives. Here, I'm looking specifically at the client-side: Windows 10, the Windows Store, and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

A few tidbits from around the web: Microsoft's March 2016 evaluation VMs, Microsoft's (sort of) Linux distribution, layoffs at Sonos and a look to the future, Samsung vague but positive on Galaxy S7 pre-orders, and yes, the Nexus 6P is getting updated this month too.

I'm drowning in news from CES, so here are some quick tidbits from around the web: You can buy the Lumia 550 from Microsoft now, Amazon has not stopped selling the 950 XL, Acer Liquid Jade Primo coming in February, and more.

Here's some great news for aspiring developers: Bob Tabor's amazing and free Windows 10 development for absolute beginners video series is now available.