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Spotify arrives on Windows Phone 8
Now this should be music to your ears: The popular song streaming app Spotify is now available for Windows Phone 8. Download it from the StoreThe app, which is being released as a beta, instantly...
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24 Wins During the 24 Hours of PASS, Business Analytics Edition
Questions and Answers to the #24HOP ChallengeThanks to all who attended the 24 Hours of Pass: Business Analytics Edition last week and for your participation in the 24 Hours of Pass Challenge, held on...
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Sign-in no longer required to edit Office docs in SkyDrive
Now you can share your documents so that others can edit them hassle-free, without signing in to a Microsoft account. This works for all four Office Web Apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.To...
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Hadoop .Net HDFS File Access
Provided with the Microsoft Distribution of Hadoop, HDInsight, is a C library for HDFS file access. This code extends this library through a Managed C++ solution. This solution enables one to consume...
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Looking for an app idea? Designers need developers
We often hear from developers that they are looking for the next great app idea. They know how to build apps but just haven’t found the right thing to work on. So if you can't design your way out of a...
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Getting started with Client-Side Monitoring in Operations Manager 2012
This post is intended to help you get started with the Client-Side Monitoring (CSM) feature in Operations Manager 2012. Client-Side Monitoring provides a real end user perspective on application health...
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App roundup: Time savers and time wasters
Hi, I’m Brittany, a writer on the Windows team. Usually I write about things like the Start screen and personalizing your PC, so it’ll be a nice change of pace to talk to you about apps. I'll be...
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The Case of the Mysterious Preseeding Conflicts
Hi folks, Ned Pyle here again. Back at AskDS, I used to write frequently about DFSR behavior and troubleshooting. As DFS Replication has matured and documentation grew, these articles dwindled....
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Pie in the Sky (February 8, 2013)
It's Friday, time for some links. Here's a mix of Ruby, Node, JavaScript and client-side programming for your weekend reading.Node v0.8.19 (stable): Another week, another Node release.Ruby 1.9.3-p385:...
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Servicing Exchange 2013
Six years ago Exchange took a bold step forward in product servicing. With Exchange Server 2007 we shifted to a cumulative model to deliver customer rollup updates (RU’s) instead of a traditional...
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Windows Azure SQL Database and SQL Server - Performance and Scalability...
Curious about the differences in approaching performance and scalability in SQL Server vs. Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)? Check out this new paper......(read more)
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What Does Big Data Mean to You?
As a company that for many years has been committed to delivering end-to-end data platform technologies to our customers, we’re excited about all the attention big data is receiving from press,...
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Service Provider Foundation, URLs for testing that it's up and running after...
So John Messec and I were delivering our session at Tech Ready 16 yesterday (SCIM351 - Enabling Hosted IaaS Clouds for Service Providers, big shout out and my thanks to all who attended) and I was...
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Circle Back to Loopback
Hello again! Kim Nichols here again. For this post, I'm taking a break from the AD LDS discussions (hold your applause until the end) and going back to a topic near and dear to my heart - Group...
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Announcing the 2013 PASS Business Analytics Conference
Is data your currency? Need analytics best practices and strategies you can put to work immediately? Then the PASS Business Analytics Conference is the place to be between April 10th and 12th,...
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Video: Effectively Managing Your Personal Brand Online
This blog, my twitter, my YouTube are all part of my online presence. While my day job is ensuring that Microsoft's web developer tools work well across many cross cutting concerns, my passion remains...
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Conor vs. Spring 2013 Conference Schedule
Hello all, I will be speaking at the following public conferences this Spring: 1. SQLIntersection 2013, Las Vegas – week of April 7th. ( http://www.sqlintersection.com/ ) 2. SQLBits Spring 2013,...
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Demo: Hyper-V over SMB at high throughput with SMB Direct and SMB Multichannel
Overview I delivered a new demo of Hyper-V over SMB this week that’s an evolution of a demo I did back in the Windows Server 2012 launch and also via a TechNet Radio session.Back then I showed a two...
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The curious case of the Exploit:Java/CVE… infection
When I first started working in the antivirus industry, I found that learning how Java exploits work, even at a very high level, was difficult. Even now with a few seasons under my belt, understanding...
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Multipoint Server 2012 General Availability - good to go
As we announce broad availability of WMS 2012 you can hear a few thoughts from Anthony Salcito, our VP of Worldwide Education, on how this changes the game in delivering, managing and benefiting from...
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