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750 Horses - Pure Ferrari F12 Berlinetta
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over 1 year ago
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http://www.f12berlinetta.com/
Windows Server “8” Beta Evaluation Guide - now available
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
As you probably already noticed, we opened up several new areas on http://technet.microsoft.com for Windows Server 8 . Be sure to spend some time in the evaluation resources area. There is a lot of good information there. On the Overview...
Windows 8 Server Beta - now available for download
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Windows Server is the leading server operating system that powers many of the worlds' largest datacenters, enables small businesses around the world, and delivers value to organizations of all sizes in between. Building on this legacy, Windows Server...
Windows 8 Consumer Preview - now available for download
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
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First of all, see the Windows 8 Consumer Preview blog post on the official Windows 8 product group blog. The Windows team blog also has a great introduction to the Preview. After you’ve had a chance to read through some of that information...
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 8 CP
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 Consumer Preview includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line tools for managing roles and features that run...
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Product Guide for Business
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview Product Guide for Business provides a detailed look at the many new and improved features in Windows 8. The guide is designed as an accurate source of information that can help businesses understand how Windows 8 enables...
Smoked By Windows Phone - wallpapers, videos, oh my
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
If you were paying attention to CES, you might have noticed our own Ben Rudolph challenging all comers to a series of tasks on their phone. The contest was affectionately called #smokedbywindowsphone. He’s at it again and today Ben released...
Microsoft on the Issues “Google: Please Don’t Kill Video on the Web”
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
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Here’s an excerpt from a blog post on the Microsoft on the Issues blog I thought would be prudent to bring to your attention. Posted by Dave Heiner Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Standards & Antitrust Group, Microsoft Earlier...
NOKIA Lumia 800 Bundle - now available at microsoftstore.com
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Oh come on, you know you want it. Go buy it .
Dell Preps XPS 13 Ultrabook for February Debut
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
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If you thought Dell was going to site idling as everyone else announces an Ultrabook™ , think again. Way back in January Dell announced the XPS 13 but it’s now getting closer to the date they committed to having them available. The folks at...
Windows 8 Logo Announced
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
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See the history of our logos and information about the new logo at the Windows Team Blog entry . I wish it was a little darker so it matched my blog theme better. Oh well. What do you think?
Isaac Newton - manuscripts digitized and now available online
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
There is a pretty fascinating site now available for your viewing and studies. Want to look back into the late 1600’s? Now you can. Here’s an excerpt from the description of the collection : “There are at least three reasons why these papers...
The Ultimate Driving Machine? 2013 BMW M6 Coupe
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
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Screw the recession. http://www.bmwblog.com/2012/02/11/world-premiere-2013-bmw-m6-coupe/
Welcome to TechNet Metro
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over 1 year ago
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In case you haven’t noticed, metro design is the hot new thing. Over the past twenty four hours we’ve been in release mode for http://technet.microsoft.com and as you can see, the changes are striking. Be sure to checkout the layout, MegaBlade...
Cloud Fundamentals Video Series: Comparing Security Controls
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
My friends at the Trustworthy Computing group have been producing a number of videos with industry experts in various Cloud topics. Tim Rains interviews Kellie Ann Chainier in this installment on the subject of Security Controls. Click the...
Attachments Suck
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
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Check out the flow chart at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/skydrive/attachments-suck . This is a cute SkyDrive campaign. Very creative. Is this you? Let’s send a 1GB attachment and see what happens. Evil grin.
Windows for the ARM processor architecture
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
The Windows product development team has posted some information about Windows 8 and execution on the Arm® processor. Here’s the first paragraph from that post: One of the notable aspects of Microsoft Windows has been the flexibility the architecture...
SQL Server 2012 Special Ops Tour coming to a city near you!
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
The time to activate is now. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is launching soon. Be a part of this highly anticipated event! Join us for our 12-city road tour where Microsoft experts and local DBAs will show you the power of SQL Server 2012. At the Tour stop...
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit - download available
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop and server migrations. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive proposals...
System Center 2012 RC Virtual Machine Manager documentation - download available
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the location for the RC documentation for the VMM 2012. In this case we’ve updated the cmdlet reference guide so if you are working with and learning about PowerShell, you’ll probably want to grab the...
Communicator for Mac 2011 13.1.3 Update
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
This update fixes critical issues in Communicator 2011, including issues that might cause Communicator to stop responding or quit unexpectedly. For more information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site . Applies to: Office 2011, Communicator...