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A month with an Intel Haswell prototype
Intel sent me a Haswell Developer Prototype Ultrabook to review a little over a month ago. In order to effectively review this, given my experience, I need to separate the Haswell Chipset and Processor...
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Pie in the Sky (September 6, 2013)
Back from vacation this week and trying to catch up on things I missed while out last week. Here's part of my reading list for your weekend enjoyment.CloudConfiguring dynamic IP address restrictions in...
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What’s new with Xbox One SmartGlass
The Xbox Team today published a blog post featuring a Q&A with Xbox Live General Manager Ron Pessner, who leads the engineering team that is developing the new SmartGlass for Xbox One. To learn...
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September update on the Office 365 service upgrade
As of right now, over 90% of our customers have either been upgraded to the new Office 365 experience, or have heard from us that they will be upgraded in September. For everyone who hasn’t heard from...
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Updating your JavaScript apps to use the new Windows.Web.Http API
Are you a JavaScript app developer who connects to a web service? If so, there's a new HTTP API in Windows 8.1 that improves on the abilities of the WinJS.xhr and XMLHttpRequest functions. With the...
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Application Management - Clustering SQL Guest Instances in R2
With the preview release of System Center 2012 R2, there are a few additions to VMM that make clustering with Windows Failover Clustering in guest VMs significantly easier. In this post, I’d like to...
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Right from the Start: Xbox Music
A few weeks ago, we published a blog post about more than 20 new and improved Microsoft apps and services that will come right from (the) Start on your new Windows device with Windows 8.1. That post...
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Why you want to be using VHDX in Hyper-V whenever possible and why it’s...
Hello, Jeff “The Dude” Stokes here for another post. The other day I was implementing in my lab a pure Microsoft VDI solution (blog coming soon) leveraging the latest and greatest Hyper-V on Server...
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Dell Expands Workstation Portfolio with new Laptops and Towers
Today Dell has announced some exciting new PCs in their Workstation lineup. These new machines include the M4800 and M6800 mobile workstations, and the T3610, T5610, and T7610 tower workstations. All...
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What are the top 3 updates we should make in Access web apps?
What are the top 3 updates you'd like to see in Access web apps? We have our own list, but we'd love to see yours--we rely on your feedback to continually improve Access. Complete our short survey or...
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Team Foundation Service Update – Sept 9
Today we deployed our sprint 53 work to Team Foundation Service and posted the release notes about the changes. When I wrote last sprint’s release notes, I alluded to “one more nice big new feature”....
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Announcing the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate
I’m excited to announce the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013, .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Team Foundation Server 2013! The release is available for download now on the Visual Studio product...
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Getting Windows 8.1 RTM bits
Based on the feedback from you and our partners, we’re pleased to announce that we will be making available our current Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Pro RTM builds (as well as Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM...
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Ready Now for TNS & MSDN: Download Windows Server 2012 R2
Earlier today, Microsoft announced that we are making the current RTM bits for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers effective immediately.Visual Studio 2013...
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Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC
The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC is now available. It comes with a go-live license, enabling you to deploy 4.5.1 apps in production. Here are the RC bits. Download them. Try them out. Tell us what you...
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Visual Studio 2013 & TFS 2013 RC is available
Today we released the Release Candidate for the VS 2013 suite of products. This is a “go-live” production worthy version and will likely be the last publicly available build before we RTM. I strongly...
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Visual Studio 2013 RC available now!
Today, we announced that the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is now available for download on our Visual Studio product site.We are also excited to share that the Visual Studio 2013 Launch is on...
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Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC
Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RCI’m excited to show the new features of the ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC. Click here to download and install the...
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Attention TechNet and MSDN Subscribers: Windows Server 2012 R2 available for...
Hi, all, If you're a TechNet or MSDN subscriber, I have good news for you: in response to your requests, Windows Server 2012 R2 (and Windows 8.1) will be available for download from TechNet and MSDN...
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Announcing LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate!
The release candidate for Visual Studio 2013 is available for download! The release candidate bundles many of the features we mentioned in the Visual Studio 2013 Preview—such as better support for team...
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