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Enabling Professional-Quality Online Video: New Specifications for...
Video captioning on the Web is about to get significantly better, putting in place another critical building block for enabling professional-quality online video delivery and playback. To achieve the...
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Nokia Lumia 521, a T-Mobile exclusive, debuts this weekend on HSN
T-Mobile provided fresh details today about rollout plans for the new Nokia Lumia 521, a T-Mobile exclusive that’s based on Nokia’s popular and most affordable Windows Phone 8 model, the Lumia 520.If...
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Insight Through Integration: SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse -...
SQL Server 2012 PDW has a feature called PolyBase, that enables you to integrate Hadoop data with PDW data. By using PDW with PolyBase capabilities, a user can: Use an external table to define a table...
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Announcement: Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series presentation...
The session originally scheduled to take place Tuesday 4/30/13, has been moved to Wednesday 5/1/13 at 8 a.m. PST.If you are interested in attending this online meeting, please follow this link where...
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Improved data grid for charts in Word and PowerPoint
One of the improvements we made for Office 2013 to the way users work with Charts in Word and PowerPoint is to make the data grid easier to use and less intrusive. Now the data grid is displayed in a...
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Featured apps in the Windows Store
Each week we showcase apps in the Windows Store that we think customers will love. We spend all day, every day, looking for apps to highlight and we’re excited to promote apps that are well-designed,...
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Tracing with Storport in Windows 2012 and Windows 8 with KB2819476 hotfix
Welcome back to the CORE Team Blog. Paul Reynolds here. I would like to let everyone know about changes on how to capture Storport traces in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.NOTE: The information...
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TechEd 2013–John Morello on Patterns and Practices for the Hybrid World
The hits keep coming with the TechEd 2013 Architecture (ARC) track! This time I want to introduce you to John Morello. I’ve known John for several years and one thing I can tell you, this guy...
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Official Fidelity app for Windows Phone 8 arrives
The free and official Fidelity Investments app for Windows Phone 8 is now available in the Store. Download it here. (As with any new app, it might take a bit to show up in search results.)Design wise,...
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Access Azure Blob Stores from HDInsight
One of the great enhancements in Microsoft's HDInsight distribution of Hadoop is the ability to store and access Hadoop data on an Azure Blob Store. We do this via the HDFS API extension called Azure...
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Hybrid Cloud Networking Help with NTttcp Version 5.28
With the recent release of Azure Infrastructure Services we anticipate that a lot of you interested in the Microsoft cloud will be curious about the possibility of moving current on premises workloads...
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Penny Pinching in the Cloud: How to run a two day Virtual Conference for $10
We've just finished Day One of "DotNetConf" our community-run free online conference for developers who love the .NET development platform and open source! The Conference PlatformIt seems funny to call...
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Enterprise Library 6.0
I’ve written on my blog before about the Microsoft Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library has a long and accomplished history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable...
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RD Connection Broker Performance and Scalability
We have published a white paper that analyzes RD Connection Broker performance in Windows Server 2012.In Windows Server 2012, RD Connection Broker provides the following functionality: Allows...
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Visual Studio Tools for Git Update available
Yesterday, we released a major update to our Visual Studio Tools for Git. While still nowhere near done, we feel like we’ve crossed a significant threshold of completeness and usability. If you’re...
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New Ignite Webcast - Office 365 Midsize Business
To sign up for this webcast please download and save the attached calendar invite below where you will find the Webcast Meeting information.Ignite Webcasts are online sessions led by Microsoft Office...
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Security Series: Using PowerShell to Protect Your Private Cloud...
In this first part of our three part series on using PowerShell to help secure your cloud infrastructure, we will talk about how you can secure data in flight within your cloud infrastructure using SMB...
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Every couple weeks, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. We hope you enjoy our latest selections.Microsoft: Office 365 Cloud Now $1 Billion Business. Office 365 is now a $1...
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Test the Web Forward – Seattle 2013
On April 12-13, Microsoft hosted a record-setting Test the Web Forward event to advance the Web by creating interoperability tests. Dozens of volunteers from Adobe, AT&T, Blackberry, Mozilla, and...
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Razer Edge: A Gaming Tablet with Extreme Horsepower
The Razer Edge is a new kind of tablet: it’s a portable high-performance gaming PC and also a device that can morph into four different configurations. The Razer Edge has impressive performance specs...
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