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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 […]

  • OMG KLP – Rumor outs purported details of Android 5.0

    Plus, Samsung going heavy metal but light on the updates, Google Glass gets torn up The Android world is in a weird place, as far as version 5.0 or (supposedly) Key Lime Pie is concerned. After whiffing mightily on our confident predictions that it would be rolled out during Google […]

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    Retracing Microsoft’s missteps that sunk the Xbox One

    The next-generation console wars are over and Microsoft has blown it. Even before PRISM blew up and people began to wonder about their electronics invading their privacy, the design of Xbox One is leaving such a bad taste in people’s mouths that the PlayStation 4 has the lead before the […]

  • TechEd crystalizes Microsoft’s BYOD management strategy

    The company’s Intune management service will play a key role in helping Microsoft shops manage non-Windows devices Microsoft’s TechEd North America conference, which was held this week in New Orleans, provided a first glimpse of the architecture that Microsoft shops should use to manage employee personal devices for work duties, […]

  • Eight questions about Windows 8 for Microsoft OEM chief Nick Parker

    Nick Parker has one of the more interesting jobs in the PC business right now. As corporate vice president for Microsoft’s OEM division, he manages the company’s relationships with PC manufacturers, including sales and licensing of Windows. It’s not always an easy job. Microsoft ruffled a few feathers last year […]

  • 7 things you can do to make Internet Explorer more secure

    Still use Internet Explorer? There’s no shame in that. But here are a few quick and easy steps you can take to stay safer as you browse. How well Internet Explorer–or any Web browser, for that matter–protects against attacks and malware greatly depends on whether you keep it up to […]

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    How to integrate Skype with Microsoft Lync

    If you’re using Lync Server and not Office 365, you could be in for a wait Businesses hoping to connect Skype users with Lync users via their corporate Lync Server but haven’t started the process yet are in for a wait. That’s because it can take 30 days to activate […]

  • Why Xbox One gaming has been an afterthought

    Microsoft took some criticism for pushing gaming to the back burner with its Xbox One announcement, but isn’t game quality a given? Microsoft may not have wowed hardcore gamers with its initial Xbox One announcement, but I’m not sure it wanted to. All of the exclusive game titles and advanced […]

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    How Microsoft will change forever and thrive again

    As PC prospects decline, the tech giant moves toward a hybrid, cross-platform future with opportunities in the server closet and the cloud Microsoft has been in business, in one form or another, for 37 years. In the tech world, that’s an eternity. Which isn’t to say Microsoft has remained static […]