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Skype for Windows 6.1 with Outlook integration makes staying connected even...
Skype integration with Outlook has arrived with the release of Skype 6.1 for Windows Desktop. Learn how to quickly and easily connect to Skype contacts directly from Outlook and download the update to...
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Automating the cloud with Windows Azure Command Line Tools
If you are one of the many users of our Windows Azure Powershell cmdlets or our Windows Azure command line tool, then you know that the CLI makes it really easy to manage and deploy Websites, Mobile...
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Resolving the Error: “File skipped because it was already present from...
This error message - File skipped because it was already present from Microsoft.PowerShell - can appear when a workflow is run that is loading the Service Manager modules that are provided out of the...
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InfoWorld Recognizes Windows Server 2012 and Windows PowerShell in 2013...
Windows Server 2012 and Windows PowerShell have made IDG’s InfoWorld 2013 Technology of the Year Awards list, which recognizes the best products evaluated by the InfoWorld Test Center over the past...
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Embedding Presentations into Your Website with the PowerPoint Web App
We’ve upgraded the embedding experience in PowerPoint Web App to make it better than ever. The new experience is fully interactive and all your content plays back right in the embedded object. That...
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TFS 2010 will NOT support SQL 2012
With every release – of our product or a dependency, we think hard about the test/support matrix. As we developed Team Foundation Server 2012, we decided to support both SQL 2008 R2 and SQL 2012 – due...
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New ESG Lab Validation Report shows Performance of Windows Server 2012...
There is a new ESG report out that shows the Storage and Networking performance of Windows Server 2012. It highlights the findings around a few key new features, including:Storage SpacesSMB 3.0 File...
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Deploying OpenLogic CentOS images on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to us by Eric Weidner, OpenLogic Co-founder and Director of Engineering, describing how the company provides support and services for CentOS customers, including...
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App roundup: Discovering new websites, music, recipes, and vengeful skeletons
As you might have seen here, there are now four times the number of apps in the Windows Store as when Windows 8 was released a few months ago. There were 10,000 apps added in the last month alone! In...
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Your top 10 favorite Office posts of 2012
The Office Blogs is really 14 blogs rolled up into one. The posts on this list were the most popular across all of them. Check out the year in review to find out what most piqued people's curiosity...
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Getting a content rating
Support for PEGI and other ratings systems is an important part of the Windows Store—we want people to always have a clear expectation of the type of content an app contains. Also, many countries such...
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Pie in the Sky (January 11, 2013)
Things are starting to pick up after the holidays; some good links for your weekend reading this week.VM Depot: This is a new service for Windows Azure that allows the community to create and share VM...
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TFS 2012 Update 1 Hotfix
I’ve written a couple of posts about our issues with Update 1 and what we’ve learned from it. You can get and overview in me retrospective summary. You can also read about the list of bugs that we’ve...
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Friday Miscellany #4
Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity.It’s all about performance: Using Visual C++...
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Send Cam Newton to the NFL playoffs: You pick the ad, we’ll air it
It’s only been a few months since we at Windows Phone debuted our “Meet” commercial featuring Carolina Panthers Quarterback Cam Newton, and the response has been enormous! People on Twitter love the...
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January 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck
Today we’re publishing the January2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded 12 questions focusing primarily on the Print Spooler ( MS12-001 ) and .NET...
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Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #50)
Editor's note: This post comes from Mark Brown, Windows Azure Community Manager.Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about...
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The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video
A few months ago while sitting at a Burger King (yes, I know) I recorded a video on "How to use Windows 8 in 3 minutes" and threw it up on YouTube. It's been viewed nearly a half million times. Eek....
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Fix available for Root Certificate Update issue on Windows Server
Hi, all, Christa Anderson here. We want to make you aware of an issue that might affect your Windows Server deployments, and tell you how we’re addressing it with the help of our awesome Customer...
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Cooperatively pausing async methods
Recently I was writing an app that processed a bunch of files asynchronously. As with the Windows copy file dialog, I wanted to be able to provide the user with a button that would pause the...
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