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Microsoft announced the (RTM) versions of Windows Server 2012 editions, making this week’s announcement of the RC release a tad surprising. It would appear that their Essentials edition is lagging behind the other editions. The RC is the final test version, while the RTM is the final build that gets put on hardware products. Microsoft […]

Those solutions haven’t been released as products yet. A launch event for Windows Server 2012 is scheduled for September 4. Microsoft has said that SP1 of System Center 2012 will arrive in beta form in the second half of this year. Presently, System Center 2012 SP1 is at the community technology preview 2 stage. In […]

And while some may easily dismiss the news about Microsoft’s new logo, it is in fact a very big deal. This is the first time the world’s largest and most powerful software vendor has changed its overall identity. For over a quarter of a century Microsoft has used the original logo. This marks the times […]

The release candidate (RC) of Windows Server 2012 Essentials was made available on Monday for download and testing in addition to Microsoft’s announcement of their  “release-to-manufacturing” (RTM) versions of the other Windows Server 2012 editions making it obvious that the Essentials version a bit behind and  lagging in development. The RC is the final test […]

Microsoft is genuinely very excited as a team by their businesses and partner’s innovation and creativity scheduled to make it to market this October. Microsoft’s engineering and collaboration with their partners has been ground breaking. They have jumped major hurtles in the areas of performance, reliability, battery life and design features in order to deliver […]

In an effort to step more piracy, has made their Windows 8 Enterprise version of their new OS available for a 90 day trial. Microsoft’s focus of the initiative is to provide developers with an opportunity to gain their bearings while navigating around the new OS and the programing alternatives in the totally new operating […]

Years of conflicting file format standards, Microsoft has announced that they will soon support several new file format standards including .ODF, Open XML and native PDF. Full adherence to each one is Microsoft stated. Apparently “Supported” and “Fully Supported” are two different things and now Microsoft will “Fully Support these already, previously “Supported” standard document […]

Microsoft announced this week that their SkyDrive cloud storage has moved beyond the preview stage with new updates to the service being deployed to end-users as early as this week. Updates include the new “Metro” or renamed  Modern UI interface. SkyDrive now provides users with up to 7 GB of cloud storage space for free, […]

In addition to Microsoft’s announcement of their new SkyDrive app for the Android, all versions of the SkyDrive interface are to receive the new, newly renamed Modern UI interface with new features including a text search that combs through Microsoft Office files, multi-select with a drag and drop interface, and advanced sorting features, plus tons […]

Totally blindsided by yet another copyright infringement complaint, the Redmond software giant had to back pedal at a rapid pace and has now completely withdrawn the Metro style brand. A huge waste considering the amount of effort they have put into marketing, what most would consider, the most visible new features in Windows 8, ie, […]

Providing developers with the tools for building Windows 8 applications, Microsoft is however altering their normal procedure of first dibs for MSDN subscribers and instead, making the Visual Studio 2012 tooling available to all developers on Wednesday. MSDN subscribers will be the only ones to gain access to the Windows 8 RTM today. The move […]

Microsoft this week announced who they are partnering with in the first wave of assaults against Apple’s iPad. Dell, Lenova and Samsung have been named as the first list of manufacturers who will build the custom Windows RT machines and tablets for Microsoft’s new line of products including units with full keyboards, new and improved […]