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O’Reilly Strata: Busting Big Data Adoption Myths–Part 1
Think infrastructure and scalability will impede your path to big data analytics? Windows Azure HDInsight is your big data solution.It’s the first day of the O’Reilly Strata conference in Santa Clara,...
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A better Twitter for Windows Phone arrives
A big new update to the official Twitter app for Windows Phone hit the Store this morning. Download it now. Version 2.0 has been significantly redesigned and adds a bunch of great new features, which...
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Security Advisory 2755801 revised to address Adobe Flash Player issues (Feb....
Today we revised Security Advisory 2755801 to address issues in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. This advisory revision was released in conjunction with Adobe’s update process....
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Announcing the first-ever Windows Phone Kid’s Art Contest
One of the coolest features of the new Windows Phone is Kid’s Corner, which gives kids a fun way to use your smartphone while keeping them from messing with your settings or accidentally texting your...
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The C++ REST SDK ("Casablanca")
The C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") has officially been released as an open source project on CodePlex (http://casablanca.codeplex.com). We first announced Casablanca as an incubation project on...
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Destination: Private cloud…are we there yet?
The post titled the Cloud is Not Virtualization from almost couple years ago on this blog stated that for an IT solution to be called a “cloud” solution, it needed to enable the “essential...
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Share Your Windows 8 Story
Today marks exactly four months since launch of Windows 8 and your thoughts, comments, and discussions have reverberated throughout social media with a lot of excitement. Now, we would like to take it...
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Week of February 25: New from Windows Server/System Center MVPs
Hi, all, We took a week off for MVP Summit but we're now back with this week's installment of blogs from our Windows Server/System Center MVPs. Several MVPs posted technical how-to articles for high...
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“Workloads” and the private cloud
We’ve written several articles on this blog differentiating between virtualized-only and private cloud infrastructures, so I won’t detail those differences again, but in this post, I wanted to address...
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New languages coming to our community on February 27th, at 6 AM
After 6 AM on February 27th, this community will be available in eight new languages: Chinese (Simplified), Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Finnish, and Polish....
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Security Advisory 2755801 Updated to Address Adobe Flash Player Issues...
Today we released an update that addresses vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. The details of the vulnerabilities are documented in Adobe security bulletin...
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Being a Remote Worker Sucks - Long Live the Remote Worker
I've been at 100% remote worker at Microsoft for just about 5 years now. My last two jobs were both 7 year long gigs, so this isn't the longest I've worked somewhere, but clocking in at a half-decade,...
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Kurt DelBene: The cloud and beyond
Read Microsoft Office Division President Kurt DelBene's blog about the latest release of Microsoft Office 365 for businesses. "When we first set out to build this release of Office, we knew it would be...
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Along with worldwide commercial availability, Office 365 announces new global...
Today, we announced worldwide availability of the new Microsoft Office 365 services for business; the most complete Office cloud service to-date has new features and offerings tailored to meet the...
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New Ignite Webcast - Hybrid Deployment
Ignite Webcasts are online sessions led by Microsoft Office 365 Product Managers, Engineers and Support staff. The Ignite webcast series addresses Office 365 technical subjects and scenarios and is...
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Start your engines: Asphalt 7 Heat arrives for Windows Phone 8
The newest, fastest, most visually stunning edition of the famed Asphalt racing game series is now available for Windows Phone 8. Buy it now from the Windows Phone Store.Asphalt 7 Heat ($0.99) is a...
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Maluuba, a voice-activated personal assistant, arrives for Windows Phone 8
Billed by one reviewer as “like Siri—without the backtalk,” Maluuba is a free voice-powered personal assistant that’s designed to help you manage your day and find stuff easily, just by talking to your...
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O’Reilly Strata: Busting Big Data Adoption Myths–Part 2
If concerns about having the right skillsets on staff are stopping you from trying big data, Microsoft’s BI tools may hold the key to busting down those barriers.It’s the second day of the O’Reilly...
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From Data to Insight & Impact: Building an Excel Power View from a PDF Document
In this new edition to the Data to Insight & Impact series, Microsoft Finance Director Marc Reguera shows you how to build insightful views in Power View starting from a PDF document and using...
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KB: Adding a Host to System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1 fails...
We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where adding hosts to System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 fails with the following error:Agent installation failed...
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