Microsoft is going to have lots of clouds for industries. Here's why they matter
Industry clouds like healthcare and retail are there for Microsoft partners to build services on top of.
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Kubernetes is booming, but consolidation is coming
The crowded halls of the official Kubernetes conference Kubecon reflect a nascent but important technology whose best future might be to disappear into the background.
Office 365 is clever - and sometimes just a little bit too clever
What priorities do you want your work email system to have? As Office 365 adds extra features to email, the basics can get hard to find.
How much is Box starting to look like SharePoint?
At its recent BoxWorks conference, Box showed off a range of new features that it's planning to add to the service, and to the apps you use it with. They're not guaranteed to show up, but take a look at the list and see if they seem familiar.
How Microsoft thinks about partners and the cloud
Working with other companies has always been part of Microsoft's strategy and that hasn't changed with the arrival of the cloud.
Stop saying the cloud is just someone else's computer - because it's not
Cloud and 'as a service' models have changed the way computing works. Get over it.
There is no money in commodity cloud
There will only be a few hyperscale public clouds and they'll make their money with premium services.
How Clutter saved me from inbox 4,000
Filing, piling or ignoring email? I've tried them all and I prefer machine learning.
Azure Files service, First Take: SMB file sharing for cloud VMs
Cloud storage to use inside your cloud service: Azure Files represents another step towards blending the concepts of Platform and Infrastructure as a Service for a very pragmatic approach to cloud.
Microsoft: Making the cloud business as usual
No flashing lights, no darkened rooms; a few dozen people run the whole of Azure from an ordinary office — and that's the point