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Computerworld Microsoft Apr 01, 2016 Microsoft ballyhoos 270M Windows 10 active users Microsoft today said that 270 million "active users" are now running Windows 10. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • The triumphant, magnificent, and unexpected return of PC gaming • Microsoft: No baked-in ad blocker for you! • Microsoft's rude A.I. bot Tay: Officially a piece of CaaP [updated] • 5 things to expect from Microsoft's big developer conference • Blocking Windows 10 with Never10 • Microsoft's mission at Build: Prove progress on promises to developers • Microsoft pitches developers on building apps for Office users • Microsoft fires back at AWS with Azure Functions service and more White Paper: CA Technologies 5 Steps to Adopting Agile IT Infrastructure Monitoring If you've seen recent car ads, you know they're as likely to promote applications and connections as they are styling and horsepower. But manufacturers aren't the only ones pushing apps these days. Read More ▶ The triumphant, magnificent, and unexpected return of PC gaming It's back. Read More ▶ Microsoft: No baked-in ad blocker for you! Microsoft does not plan to build an online ad blocker into its Edge browser, a company engineer said today. Read More ▶ Microsoft's rude A.I. bot Tay: Officially a piece of CaaP [updated] Microsoft's artificial intelligence strategy is to unleash more bots like Tay. Redmond doesn't mean more nasty, racist or homophobic chatbots, but a forest of A.I. personalities for different uses -- Satya Nadella named it 'Conversation as a Platform'... Read More ▶ 5 things to expect from Microsoft's big developer conference Microsoft executives will take the stage at Moscone West in San Francisco on Wednesday for the first of two keynote addresses to the company's big Build developer conference. Here are five key things to expect from the next two days of Microsoft announcements. Read More ▶ Blocking Windows 10 with Never10 Steve Gibson's new, free Never10 utility is the fourth generation of software to block Windows 10. Read More ▶ Microsoft's mission at Build: Prove progress on promises to developers When Microsoft kicks off its annual Build developers conference Wednesday, it must show it's made progress on last year's promises. Read More ▶ Microsoft pitches developers on building apps for Office users Microsoft Executive Vice President Qi Lu had an interesting pitch for developers Thursday: Build applications that use data from Microsoft Office. Read More ▶ Microsoft fires back at AWS with Azure Functions service and more Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie fired back at Amazon in the public cloud wars with a set of new announcements of capabilities for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. Read More ▶ White Paper: CA Technologies Achieving Agile IT Operations with Unified Infrastructure Monitoring This paper explores the macro trends that are generating a need for unified monitoring tools. It identifies the business drivers for adopting such tools, including the key considerations for earning a return on investment. Read More ▶ Survey: What are the roles of IT and infosec in the enterprise? CIO, CSO and Computerworld are jointly conducting a survey to explore the interaction of information security and traditional IT teams in enterprises today. We want to know who's responsible for which security duties at your organization, where roles and responsibilities overlap, and what challenges your organization faces in aligning infosec concerns with IT strategy and business goals. Take the survey today! ▶ The 2016 Premier 100 Technology Leaders Check out our March Digital Magazine, featuring this year's class of honorees: The 2016 Premier 100 Technology Leaders. It's a chaotic world for this year's honorees, but that's just how they like it, as they embrace countless ways to spearhead change at their organizations, from shaking up the IT structure to driving technology investments. The magazine also includes News Analysis, Opinions and Shark Tank -- all free for download with registration. View the magazine here ▶ Subscribe to Computerworld Daily News Sign up for our popular, twice-daily tech news newsletter. You'll get Computerworld's up-to-the-minute top stories of the day, both first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon (ET). We deliver breaking news on topics like the latest security threats and the newest mobile devices, in-depth features about enterprise technologies and IT careers, and authoritative analyses of moves made by tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM and HP. Sign up now ▶ Subscribe to CSO's Security Awareness Weekly Sign up for a weekly roundup of features, news, tips and analysis on security awareness delivered to your inbox on Mondays. Sign up now ▶ Computerworld Job Board Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted. Check them out now ▶

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