Friday's Five: A Handful of Tech Headlines You May Have Missed, July 15

As we head into the weekend there’s that nagging feeling that you may have missed something. You’re busy, and it’s hard to keep up with every piece of news that is important to your business. This weekly column aims to wrap up the news we didn’t get to this week (in no particular order), and that may have slipped under your radar, too. If you’ve got something to add, please chime in below in the comments section or on social media. We want to hear from you.

This week was Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, and I was in attendance to bring you the latest news and coverage. Here’s what you may have missed:

1. Microsoft Wins Big in Fight for User Privacy as Irish Search Warrant Found Invalid: In a huge victory for Microsoft, a court has found an Irish search warrant invalid.
2. Microsoft’s Brad Smith on Building a Cloud for Good, and How LinkedIn is Part of the Plan: What exactly will LinkedIn bring to Microsoft? Brad Smith gave us a bit of a hint in his keynote this week.
3. Facebook Hits Like Button on Office 365, and Other Microsoft Cloud News from WPC 2016: Microsoft is relying on customers like Facebook to convince customers that Microsoft is not only “cool again”, but is also the biggest and best cloud for the enterprise user.
4. Microsoft WPC 2016: Day 1 Keynote with Satya Nadella: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicked off Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference with some announcements around new partnerships.
5. Microsoft Aims to Launch Azure Stack by Mid-2017: Dell, HPE and Lenovo will deliver pre-configured Azure Stack integrated systems to help speed implementation of Azure in data centers.

Elsewhere, here’s what we’re reading: