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Halo 4 Team Uses Agile, Cloud-Based Big Data Solution
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9 months ago
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The Halo franchise is an award-winning collection of properties that has grown into a global entertainment phenomenon. To date, more than 50 million copies of Halo video games have been sold worldwide. As developers prepared to launch Halo 4, they were...
Office 365 for Business Announced
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9 months ago
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REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 27, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced worldwide availability of a major new update to its Microsoft Office 365 services for business. Microsoft’s most complete Office cloud service to date has new features and offerings tailored...
Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 Now Globally Available
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9 months ago
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Internet Explorer 10 is available worldwide in 95 languages for download today . We will begin auto updating Windows 7 customers to IE10 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE10 Release Preview. With this final release, IE10...
The Pixel
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9 months ago
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I am a fan of great notebook screens. I have some of the best on the market. Needless to say, the Google Pixel launch caught my eye. Here’s a pic of the pix with links to the relevant information. Looks a lot like the Retina Mac...
HTC One Announced
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9 months ago
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Keith Combs
A couple of days ago HTC announced a sweet looking smartphone they call the HTC One. This looks like a nice handset but I am anxious to see if they’ll take the form factor and create a Windows phone. With a Quad core and 64GB of memory, I should...
How many of these do you have?
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10 months ago
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Engadget just released the results of the Readers Choice Awards for 2012 at http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/20/winners-2012-engadget-awards-readers-choice/ . As you can see, the Microsoft Surface RT won Tablet of the Year. Kudos to the Surface...
Evaluating Virtual Smart Cards Guide - now available for download
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10 months ago
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Keith Combs
The goal of this document is to present an overview of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) virtual smart cards (VSCs) as an option for strong authentication. It is intended not only to provide the means for evaluating VSC use in an enterprise deployment, but...
Office IT Pro Garage Series Launches
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10 months ago
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Jeremy Chapman, resident deployment guru for Microsoft, is launching a new blog series on Office they are calling the “Garage Series for IT Pros”. In addition to providing a wealth of information on deployment, it looks like they are going to do...
Alternate Energy Feed Required
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10 months ago
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Keith Combs
Lust. http://www.nvidia.com/titan-graphics-card .
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Toolkit - download now available.
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10 months ago
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Keith Combs
Package Conversion Manager (PCM) A new version of the PCM tool has been released. The new version supports both System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager. the new tool can be found at http://www.microsoft...
Postermania for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V - get these downloads
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10 months ago
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Keith Combs
Posters are a great way to wrap your mind around some of the subsystems (roles and features) that are part of complex products. Here are some cool posters for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Go get em @ http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details...
Office 2013 Quick Start Guides released
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10 months ago
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Go get em @ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/office-2013-quick-start-guides-HA103673669.aspx .
DirectAccess Single Server Setup with Mixed IPv4 and IPv6 in Windows Server 2012 - Test Lab Guide available
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10 months ago
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DirectAccess provides users with the experience of being seamlessly connected to their intranet any time they have Internet access. When DirectAccess is enabled, requests for intranet resources (such as email servers, shared folders, or intranet websites...
Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 3–now available for download
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10 months ago
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Keith Combs
Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. In addition to the application improvements mentioned in this article, Office for Mac 2011 is now available as a subscription offering. For more information about subscription, see the...
Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office
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10 months ago
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Keith Combs
This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding...