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With regular updates to Windows Admin Center and the Semi Annual Channel, plus Azure Stack HCI and Arc positioned as key tools for hybrid infrastructure, where does a new Windows Server release fit in?

64-bit apps on Windows on Arm are a work in progress: some are native, many work well with the new 64-bit emulation, but others will have to wait for more support in insider builds of Windows.

Information protection makes sure that only people with permissions see data in Power BI, while retaining the ability to share top-level trends, balancing productivity and security.

The SolarWinds compromise means you can no longer put off privileged account management.

Excel might be the world’s most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel.

Microsoft is following the customers and the ecosystem, but pragmatic investment in Linux doesn’t diminish the company’s commitment to Windows.

Remote work makes protecting data on the PC a higher priority, while the Edge browser gets more control.

Teams is where work gets done in closed conversations, while Yammer communities are open conversations across the organisation. Work needs both kinds of conversation.

Word can now turn a conversation or meeting into text ready to use in a document, but that might not come to desktop Word for a while.

Ponderous naming disguises a major step unifying tasks in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Microsoft’s cloud-based Universal Print service will major on enterprise printing features and cover printers old and new.

Microsoft adds more ways to automate processes with Teams, and more tools for building apps that live inside Teams.