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Choosing the right ultrabook: Asus Zenbook, Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro

If you spend greater part of your workday on a notebook/ultrabook, selecting your primary work tool is as important as selecting race cars is to race car drivers and selecting cameras & lighting equipment is to photographers. Some obsess over it more than others. I confess to being firmly in the latter category. I won’t […]

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The Garage Series show from MEC 2014: What’s New in Exchange 2013 SP1…

I’ve been participating in the Garage Series shows with host Jeremy Chapman. Most shows are recorded live at Microsoft events such as TechEd, TechReady (an internal Microsoft technical event), Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) and Microsoft SharePoint Conference, on the road (some recent ones have been in Prague and Hong Kong). You can find the shows […]

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Installing Windows from a USB Drive, recovery partitions and TRIM support

USB flash drives have been a welcome development for computer storage — they offer a great alternative to optical drives (aka CD/DVD drives). The form factor makes them easy to carry around, they’re faster than optical drives, and you can rewrite/reuse them as many times as you wish. They’re also more reliable than optical media. […]

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Cisco’s failure as a hosted email provider

Cisco entered the hosted email business thirteen months ago. Don’t blame yourself for not knowing about Cisco Mail — many experts were similarly unaware till earlier this week, when Cisco announced it’s quitting the business. Debra Chrapaty, Vice President of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group (formerly Corporate Vice President of Global Foundation Services at Microsoft), notes […]

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Redmond Mag: 10 Best Things Microsoft Did In 2010

If you’re too focused on Exchange Server and Windows infrastructure, it’s easy to miss some of the other remarkable products and services Microsoft released in 2010. Doug Barney lists the 10 Best Things Microsoft Did In 2010. Not surprisingly,

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Virtualizing Exchange? Microsoft addresses misleading VMWare guidance

Are you planning on deploying Exchange Server in a virtual environment, using hyervisors (aka hardware virtualization) such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V or VMWare’s ESXi/vSphere Hypervisor? Microsoft has frequently carried statements about supportability of Exchange Server in a hardware virtualization environment (see Microsoft support policies and recommendations for servers that are running Exchange Server in hardware virtualization […]

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Office 2011 for the Mac hits the store shelves, Outlook 2011 makes the Mac a corporate citizen

Mac users can now stop envying Windows users for having the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Office. Office for Mac 2011 has just hit the store shelves. The latest update to Microsoft Office for the Mac brings the Mac version on par with its Windows sibling, and surpasses it in ways that Mac users […]

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Windows Phone 7 RTMs

Terry Myerson, CVP @Windows Phone, announced over on the Windows Phone blog that Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing today. Congratulations to the Windows Phone team— let the fun begin! It sure has been a long wait, and unlike traditional hardware/software products, where RTM means you can probably download or purchase them on […]

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Exchange 2010 SP1 Has Left The Building

Microsoft has just announced the release of Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1. SP1 adds some much-requested features to Exchange 2010. Here are some of the major changes (although it’s a long list of major and minor improvements, see Released: Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta or What’s New in Exchange 2010 SP1): Online Database and […]

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Windows Phone 7 Reaches Technical Preview, Early Reviews Pour In

Terry Myerson, CVP – Windows Phone Engineering, announced in a blog post (interestingly posted on a Sunday) Windows Phone 7 has reached a “meaningful milestone”— what the team calls technical preview. Over the next few weeks, thousands of prototypes from Asus, LG and Samsung will make their way to developers. However, although in the home […]

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