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  • Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    See the official post @ http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/11/29/next-up-for-the-surface-family-surface-with-windows-8-pro-pricing.aspx .

  • Windows Azure Active Directory Processes 200 Billion Authentications

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    At Microsoft, we have been on a transformative journey to cloud computing and we have been working with customers every step of the way. Millions of customers have embraced the cloud and we are excited to share the news that we’ve reached a major milestone...

  • Top Bing Searches of 2012

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/bing/2012Searches.aspx

  • Dear Santa, “I’ve been good this year, really!”

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    If someone is going to the 2012 LA Auto Show , pick me up one of these.

  • Windows 8 BIOS Keys - embedded goodness

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    A couple of weeks ago I purchased the Samsung Series 9 NP900X3D-A02US notebook.  It came with Windows 8 Professional pre-loaded.  I’ve been wanting a Series 9 machine for quite some time, but I waited until the Ivy Bridge based silver model...

  • Multiple Monitors (Multimon) with the Lenovo ThinkPad T430s

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Lenovo continues to make perplexing choices with some of their machines. One such choice is the change to how Optimus operates on the ThinkPad T430s notebook computer. The T430s Optimus implementation with the Ivy Bridge chipset is very different from...

  • IE 10 Release Preview Now Available for Windows 7

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    In Windows 8, we reimagined the browser with IE10. We designed and built IE10 to be the best way to experience the Web on Windows. With the IE10 Release Preview for Windows 7 consumers can now enjoy a fast and fluid Web with the updated IE10 engine on...

  • Salt flats anyone?

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Hold on to your butts.  See http://confederate.com/hellcat/benchmarks for a bonafied record holder.

  • The Empire is Back

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    I recently caved and bought the Star Wars movies on blu-ray. I got them on sale and although I didn’t think I would be that thrilled with the purchase, I was dead wrong.  I have been watching the standard def 4:3 ratios for so long, that it was like...

  • New York in the Dark

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Wow. New York Magazine has a fantastic cover photo (pictured below) of New York City at http://nymag.com/nymag/letters/hurricane-sandy-editors-letter-2012-11/ shot by Iwan Baan.  Amazing. See the backstory for the shot at http://nymag.com/thecut...

  • The Oldest Trees on Earth

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Wired has a really cool article with pictures of the oldest and biggest trees on our planet.  See http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/old-tree-gallery/all/ for the full gallery and a short write-up on each.  General Sherman is pictured...

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is Now Available

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Three weeks ago the Exchange Server team announced the RTM of Exchange Server 2013 on their team blog .  Since that time the team has been working diligently to get the product ready for general availability via the various channels.  We’re...

  • Windows Azure Powers Halo 4 Universe

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Keith Combs}
    The average gamer probably doesn’t think about the virtual machines, cloud services and other technologies that power their fun – at least not as long as everything runs smoothly. When “Halo 4” launches Nov. 6, millions of fans around the world will simultaneously...
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