Microsoft

  • Microsoft couldn’t be Microsoft without Word/Office

    Microsoft’s productivity apps are $22 billion cash cows As Microsoft Word turns 30 on Oct. 25 it is not only the world’s most pervasive word-processing applications, it is a cash cow for the company. Word is an original application in Microsoft Office, the productivity suite that customers must buy to […]

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    Ballmer hammers home Microsoft’s ‘high-value’ strategy in final letter to shareholders

    Ballmer hammers home Microsoft’s ‘high-value’ strategy in final letter to shareholders Unlike last year, no surprises in CEO’s last letter to investors In his last letter to shareholders before retiring, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hammered on the same themes he and other executives struck three weeks ago in front of […]

  • Microsoft Patch Tuesday aims at IE (again) and SharePoint

    Fourteen September bulletins means lots of work for administrators For sheer volume of bulletins – 14 – Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday this month will prove onerous, with one critically important set of patches aimed to fix flaws in all versions of the Internet Explorer browser that can result in remote code […]

  • Perceived missteps may have hit a tipping point for Ballmer

    He has been in hot water over a variety of issues, including Microsoft’s position in the tablet market An accumulation of perceived missteps under Steve Ballmer’s leadership may have hit a tipping point this year, leading to Friday’s groundshaking announcement that Bill Gates’ former right hand and heir, as well […]

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    Who Are the Real Winners in the Microsoft-Oracle Deal?

    Who Are the Real Winners in the Microsoft-Oracle Deal? Microsoft and Oracle announced a wide-ranging partnership deal in late June. At first glance, the logic behind it was fairly baffling. The agreement lets Oracle customers run its software-including Java, Oracle Database and WebLogic Server-on Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, in its Azure […]

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    Google, Microsoft play catch up to Amazon, add load balancing, auto-scaling to their clouds

    Cloud computing proving to be a piggy-back industry Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand. The rollout comes just a few months after Microsoft improved its Azure cloud service […]

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    Microsoft chops Surface RT price to $349

    One Microsoft bull urges consumers to take a pass, even at that price Microsoft on Sunday slashed prices on its Surface RT tablets by as much as 30%, with the entry-level 32GB model selling for $349. The 64GB Surface RT was also discounted by $150, and now sells for $449, […]

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    70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services

    QUESTION 1 You are employed as a network administrator at ABC.com. ABC.com has an Active Directory domain named ABC.com. All servers on the ABC.com network have Windows Server 2012 installed. ABC.com has a server, named ABC-SR07, which is configured as a DHCP server. You have created a superscope on ABC-SR07. […]

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    70-246: Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012

    QUESTION 1 You work in the Cloud Services department at ABC.com. The company has a private cloud hosted on a System Center 2012 infrastructure. The infrastructure includes a System Center 2012 – Configuration Manager site server and a System Center 2012 – Service Manager management server. The two System Center […]

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    70-178: Microsoft Project 2010, Managing Projects

    QUESTION 1 You work as a Project Manager at ABC.com. You are using Microsoft Project Professional 2010 to manage a project. You notice that a section of the project is located in the wrong phase. The section includes a summary task that contains eight subtasks and two milestones. You need […]