Tech News: IT Insights in December

What has been going on in the IT world in December? We compiled the latest vendor news and trending topics of the past month. It just takes you a few minutes to stay up-to-date.

Microsoft's newest Windows 10 test build includes Timeline feature

Microsoft's cloud Big Data service cuts prices up to 52 percent

Oracle acquiring Australian cloud company Aconex for AU$1.6b

Microsoft's Cortana now has 230 skills (and Amazon's Alexa, 25,000)

Microsoft democratizes AI adding it to core products and services

Adobe's Q4 breaks $2 billion in revenue

IBM's big quantum push: Samsung, Daimler sign up for 20-qubit test drive

Microsoft adds more AI-powered updates to Bing, Cortana, Office 365

Microsoft Teams gets calling to external phone systems functionality

Amazon launches single sign-on service for AWS cloud

VMware's cloud foundation gets integrated cloud management capabilities

IBM rolls out first Power9 servers, systems optimized for AI

Citrix holds high hopes for Brazil

Microsoft in 2017: Windows 10, company layoffs are the big stories

Cloud Computing getting bigger but more complicated too

Tech's leaps, limps and likes: The 7 trends that defined 2017

Gartner forecasts worldwide security spending will reach $96 billion in 2018, up 8 percent from 2017

Gartner says by 2020, Artificial Intelligence will create more jobs than it eliminates