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PowerShell Core 6.0 will become the main version going forward, with the legacy version remaining as a stable alternative. The new release marks the transition to a cross-compatible system.

The company says three variants of the Meltdown and Spectre security flaw have varying impacts on its services, but performance drain is minimal.

Realms Clubs furthers Microsoft’s desire for Minecraft to be more than a game. It introduces significant social media features to the Realms hub.

Microsoft's Project Pendleton will give data scientists the tools to quickly wrangle data into usable formats, automatically suggesting column adjustments, determining missing data, and more. It's not yet clear when it will reach the public.

The Minecraft Better Together update also intorduces coarse dirt blocks to the game, as well as armor stands, stained glass, parrots, recipe books, and more. Updates will continue to roll out in an iterative fashion.

A mysterious malware attack targeted Mac users and spied on them for 10 years, remaining active until its discovery recently. Researchers are unclear on the cause or reason behind the attack.

Microsoft's Q4 FY17 financial report exceeded already high expectations, with a 97% rise in Azure revenue, 21% in commercial Office, and a second year of improvements in gaming. The recent acquisition of LinkedIn contributed $1 billion this quarter.

The Microsoft eBook Giveaway allows users to download free eBooks from Microsoft’s extensive catalog of content for its own products.

While it is unclear whether it should be called Petya, yesterday’s ransomware attack was started by corrupt a MEDoc updater through legitimate software supply-chain.

FireEye, the security firm that uncovered a recent Microsoft Word vulnerability, says the flaw was exploited in January for spying purposes in the Ukraine/Russia conflict.

FireEye and McAfee have described a flaw in Microsoft Word that uses an HTML document to infect systems with malicious content that allows attackers to control files.

Microsoft has now fixed a slowdown issue that has been persistent in Linux versions of OneDrive for several months. The developers have disabled the offending feature for now and have plans to implement it after some tweaking.

Speaking at 2017 Open Compute Project U.S. Summit, Microsoft expanded on its Project Olympus cloud hardware standard. The modular platform has gained support from the industry’s leading chip makers.

Kubernetes is leaving preview on Azure Container Service, meaning the platform is the only public cloud to offer all three main open source orchestrations.

Azure Information Protection's general release brings two highly requested features. Users will be able to share protected documents to entire organizations or select groups via email address. The update also incorporates a new unified client and bulk classification methods.

With the update Microsoft makes it easier to connect bots to other services and also testing and debugging bots on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It also brings some performance improvements.

The Security Updates Guide is already accessible as a preview and will go "live" on February 14. It will allow organizations to sort bulletins by CVE, KB number, product, or release date.

The patent filing from Microsoft speaks of multi-device pairing and combined display use for mobile devices. Different methods for initiating a shared-display mode for more than two devices are mentioned, as well as different multi-screen gestures.

With Patch Tuesday yesterday, Microsoft addressed 11 flaws in total, six of which the company says were critical. The security vulnerabilities were found in services such as Windows, Edge, and Office.

In a wide-ranging interview, Azure chief Jason Zander talks about Microsoft’s cloud strategy, competing with Amazon, exploring hybrid cloud solutions, and embracing open source.