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    Microsoft’s Gamble: Metro UI as the New Face of Windows

    The tile-based Metro user interface that runs on Windows Phones will soon be the look and feel of all devices in Microsoft’s ecosystem. Is this smart streamlining or a foolish consistency? At its Worldwide Partner Conference last week, Microsoft strongly implied that the Metro user interface that adorns its Windows […]

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    Ballmer: Windows Phone 7 not successful yet

    Microsoft CEO maintains confidence that its mobile OS would draw more users in years to come, however IDG News Service – While Microsoft has enjoyed many successes over the past year, Windows Phone 7 hasn’t been among them, admitted Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during the opening keynote Monday at the […]

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    Windows 8 Revealed: New Features of Microsoft’s Next OS

    The Windows 8 start screen merges the multi-touch, tile-based design of WP7 with desktop OS features for a completely new UI. Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky gave a sneak peek of the next version of Windows — code-named Windows 8 — at the Wall Street Journal’s D9 conference on Wednesday. […]

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    The 6 Hottest New Jobs in IT

    IT job seekers have real reason to hope. No fewer than 10,000 IT jobs were added to payrolls in May alone, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics, reflecting a steady month-over-month increase since January. And in a June survey by the IT jobs site Dice.com, 65 percent of hiring […]

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    How to survive a cloud outage

    You can’t prevent your cloud service provider from going down, but there are ways to protect yourself For example, Web-based disk encryption vendor AlertBoot, headquartered in Las Vegas, used to pay $50,000 a month just for electricity, AlertBoot CEO Tim Maliyil says.     Best Microsoft MCTS Training, Microsoft MCITP […]

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    Windows handheld works in warehouses or freezers

    LXE announced a rugged handheld computer that runs Windows Mobile 6.5 or CE 6.0, targeting supply chain applications. The Tecton includes an 806MHz Marvell PXA320 processor, a 3.5-inch screen with 320 x 240 resolution, 256MB of RAM and 256MB of flash storage, and an optional version that works down to […]

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    WordPress warns server admins of Trojans

    Companies and bloggers that run their own WordPress installations should make sure that they have not downloaded any of three popular plugins that were, for about 24 hours, playing host to malicious code, WordPress creator Auttomatic warned.   Best Microsoft MCTS Training, Microsoft MCITP Training at certkingdom.com   “The WordPress […]

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    Windows Embedded Standard 7 Versus 2009 � Componentization, Tools, and Building Images

    Foreword — Contributed by Robert Smith and the Windows Embedded team, this whitepaper describes some of the differences between Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and Windows Embedded Standard 7 with respect to componentization, tools, and image-building processes. It follows a previous whitepaper (also available on our site, here), that compared the […]

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    Windows Phone 7 — only seven percent share by 2016?

    Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system will have gained only seven percent market share by 2016, according to ABI Research. This paints a very different picture from rival research firm IDC, which recently claimed Microsoft would have 21 percent market share by 2015. Google’s Android operating system will rise to […]

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    Microsoft readies record-breaking patch release

    Microsoft will release 17 bulletins next week to fix 64 security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, and .NET Framework. Microsoft’s massive “April Patch Tuesday,” which includes patches to a “critical” bug in Windows XP, will tie the record for the most security bulletins released at one time, […]