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iPhone 8 launch will see Apple release 3 brand-new devices

Best Black Friday 2016 Windows deals

Microsoft previews deals on Surface tablets, Dell laptops; plenty of Windows 10 machine deals surface in other retailers' Black Friday 2016 ads

Hottest Android Black Friday 2016 deals on tablets, phones & more

$250 gift cards being bundled with Android smartphones, up to $100 being knocked off Android tablets by big retailers for Black Friday 2016

Freshly-funded Message.io buddies up with Microsoft on chatbots

Seed funding could pave way for more chatbots to work on Cisco Spark, Salesforce Chatter messaging platforms

AWS October roundup: Hybrid deployments with Amazon’s cloud get a boost

VMware partnership gives Amazon fresh ammo in the cloud wars, while a new service helps move VMs

Azure October Roundup: Price drops, data analysis, and more

Microsoft's cloud has gotten better at gleaning insights from data and a bit cheaper to use

Azure Stack Portable – The Enterprise Cloud (in a Briefcase)

Chinese smartphone vendors show sales gains as Apple, Samsung sales decline in Q3

Huawei is gaining on Apple in 3Q sales, Gartner says

Microsoft really has changed, Linux Foundation chief says

Jim Zemlin welcomes Microsoft to the open-source consortium

Microsoft now runs one data center entirely on wind power

Overall commitment to renewables makes Microsoft's Cheyenne, Wyoming, facility completely green