The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) brings together the brightest IT professionals from around the world to increase their technical expertise through deep hands-on training, best-practice sharing, and interaction with innovators in desktop, device, and datacenter management, as well as cloud technologies...

Today Amazon announced several Kindles.  I have been using their eBook readers for quite a long time now and was very intrigued by the new Kindle Paperwhite .  I have one on order.  Looks like I’ll receive it around the middle of October.  I can’t wait to try it out with some books...

Today is another exciting day for Developers and IT Professionals as we mark a new milestone for the Visual Studio and Windows product families.  Visual Studio 2012, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have reached the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) phase and will soon be available for download. ...

Could someone please explain to me why mini VGA is a port on two of the latest Ultrabook style machines?  The second generation Samsung Series 9 machine, and the latest ASUS Zenbook (not yet shipping) both have mini HDMI and mini VGA.  I get that a lot of you might want to connect the notebook...

Flash Mobbing in India with NOKIA. 

Executive Summary I had a lot of pre-conceived notions about the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 before it arrived.  It turns out that some of them were wrong but others were right on the mark.  If you are looking for a 13.3” notebook computer that is battle worthy, then the X1 should be on your list for...

See http://phones.microsoftstore.com/mobile/?referringdomain=microsoft . Looks like the offer is good until 7/1/2011.  Hit the link for full details on the terms and conditions. Enjoy.

The Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit is the technical reference for the product. This book extends the product planning, deploying, and managing documentation in the Lync Technical Library. This book serves as a companion to the product documentation to learn how the product works under the hood. Get it...

REDMOND, Wash., and LUXEMBOURG – May 10, 2011 – Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: “MSFT”) and Skype Global S.à r.l today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor...

May 2 – Toronto | May 4 – Detroit | May 6 – Chicago | May 9 – Indianapolis | May 11 – Dallas | May 13 - Columbus The Springboard Series Tour is back! This 6 city tour brings the top product teams from Microsoft to you. We understand the questions and issues that IT pros deal with every day. How do I...

Introducing the Verizon Wireless Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot SCH–LC11.

Consumerization is a growing challenge for IT organizations. System Center Configuration Manager 2012 helps IT empower people to use the devices and applications they need to be productive, while maintaining corporate compliance and control. The boundaries between work and life have blurred to where...

Next week is the general availability date for Windows Server 2008 SP1. It just so happens the 2/22 GA date is also National Margarita Day here in the US. I figured I’d better get this written and posted ahead of time. Just in case someone wants me to judge a contest or something. Grin. For...

Pretty impressive feature set. I definitely want to see this one up close. See Sammy’s info site at http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/ .

   See http://blogs.office.com/b/office-exec/archive/2011/01/18/onenote-mobile-for-iphone-helps-you-free-your-ideas.aspx for more information. 

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Bret Arsenault.  Bret is the Chief Information Security Officer for Microsoft and has been with the company many years.  In fact, if you look closely behind him, you’ll see the huge twenty year crystal behind him.  It...

Two devices caught my eye today. First up is the ultra chic Samsung 9 Series laptop . Like the Apple MacBook Air, this baby just oozes kewl. I like it. Too bad I’m already set for light laptops for a while. Let me know if one of you plunks down some hard earned cash and can offer some first hand...

If you watch this and the 2009 show reel, you’ll notice AZO has a number of swords hanging on the wall.  He doesn’t show off his skill with them much, but I have no doubt he can use them.

About three weeks ago a Lenovo coupon came out for 15% off ThinkPad laptops. This combined with our stacked EPP discount put the latest ThinkPad T410s in my target price range. In addition to that discount, you can now order this machine with the Intel second generation SSD instead of the Samsung SSD...

Windows Phone 7 launched in Europe last month and is launching in North America next week.  You’ve seen the commercials.  You’ve seen the demos.  But have you heard much about the update infrastructure we’ve put in place for the devices? Probably not.  It’s isn’t as sexy as the glorious...

Fascinating little machine.  See http://www.apple.com/macbookair/ for more information.

The Hubble telescope took some interesting pictures the past few months.  This looks like Luke’s X-Wing warping through the galaxy to me. See the full story at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/34/image/a/ .

Today we start the next milestone in the life of Windows Phone 7.  This morning we held a global webcast to announce some of the cool devices coming to Europe this month, and the United States in November.  I certainly haven’t decided what to get but after testing the HTC EVO and it’s 4.3”...

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Update 2 is an update to Forefront UAG that provides the following functionality updates and other improvements: Citrix publishing support —Forefront UAG fully supports Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and its replacement Citrix XenApp 5.0. Citrix client...

REDMOND, Wash. — Sep. 20, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the further international expansion of Zune, its digital entertainment service. This fall, Zune will expand its music and video footprint and bring the free Zune software, Zune Marketplace online store, Zune Pass 1 music subscription service...