Category: Windows

Windows Phone 8.1 Update brings Cortana to new markets + new features

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From MS Blogs by Joe Belfiore Back in April, you heard me talk about how we believe Windows Phone 8.1 is the world’s most personal smartphonebecause of features like highly personal Live Tiles on your Start screen and the world’s first truly personal digital assistant. Today I am in China to talk about how we’re continuing …

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Mouse Without Borders

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Consider this, you’re sitting at your desk. On it, you’ve got a desktop PC, a laptop and a Surface. Haven’t you ever wished that you could use a single keyboard and mouse to control all of those devices without having to fiddle with any cables? While you could invest in additional hardware to do just …

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MVA Track: Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials

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Join Microsoft Product Marketing Manager David Fabritius​ as he takes you through Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and the new Windows Server Essentials Experience role available on the Standard and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2012 R2. http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/windows-server-2012-r2-essentials

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Out-of-Band Release to Address Microsoft Security Advisory 2963983

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At approximately 10 a.m. PDT, we will release an out-of-band security update to address the issue affecting Internet Explorer (IE) that was first discussed in Security Advisory 2963983. This update is fully tested and ready for release for all affected versions of the browser. The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not …

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Windows 8.1 Update 1 Power User guide showcases twenty pages of what’s new

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Microsoft unveiled the next big update to Windows 8.1, called Update 1, and is set to go live tomorrow, April 8th, via Windows Update. However, you can get a head start on learning about the new features by downloading the official Power User guide for Windows 8.1 Update 1, offering 20 pages showcasing the new …

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Exploring Windows 8.1 Update – Start Screen, Desktop and Other Enhancements

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Welcome to Ask PFE Plat’s coverage of the next chapter in Microsoft’s on-going refinement of Windows. As with 8.1, we continue to evolve and improve the OS and last week, at the Build 2014 conference, we released “Windows 8.1 Update” to MSDN. On Tuesday, April 8th, the Update will be released to the Windows Update …

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Springboard Series Blog: Announcing Windows 8.1 end-user readiness content

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Today we’re announcing the availability of the Windows 8.1 business user guide package. The package provides a range of guides and video tutorials that will ensure your users take full advantage of Windows 8.1. Windows 8.1 Quick Guide for Business – for online distribution This 16 page brochure-type quick guide provides a basic introduction to …

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Software-Defined Networking with Windows Server and System Center Jump Start

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  Free online event with live Q&A with the networking team: http://aka.ms/SftDnet Wednesday, March 19th from 8am – 1pm PST   Are you exploring new networking strategies for your datacenter? Want to simplify the process? Software-defined networking (SDN) can streamline datacenter implementation through self-service provisioning, take the complexity out of network management, and help increase …

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Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

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We’re happy to announce a new free ebook – Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 by Mitch Tulloch with Symon Perriman and the System Center Team. DOWNLOAD LINKS Download the  PDF – here Download the Mobi file for Kindle – here Download the ePub file – here   Introduction Microsoft System Center is one of …

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New Disk2vhd V2.0 with vhdx support

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Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume …

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