I spent the last 30 minutes trying to locate the damn thing! Very frustrating. It is NOT on connect.microsoft.com microsoft.com/office microsoft.com/office2013 microsoft.com/office15 … From what can tell so far there are only two options for the beta: www.office.com/preview which requires that you sign up for a free Office 365 account and […]
I have seen this error before but not had the time to troubleshoot it. The error basically means that your out of Windows resource memory (not to be confused with your servers physical RAM). Below is a good explaination from an MSDN Blog: What is Pool? First, Pool is not […]
Since December 1998, when on impulse I bought the original iMac from CompUSA, I’ve used Apple gear. No longer. Late yesterday, I replaced the last fruit-logo with another, fulfilling my pledge nearly a month ago to boycott Apple… … Rotten to the Core Sadly, in 2012, Apple is the company […]
It will be called Office 2013. According to Marry-Jo Folley, TechEd 2012 had a few demos using Office 2013 branding so while this has not been officially announced yet, it would appear to be the case. See the yellow bar in the graphic below Office 15 = Office 2013 http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/excel2013rt.png She […]
We see benchmarks and anecdotal evidence of so called “browser speed” all the time, but what really counts is real live production data. How fast does each browser take to load real web pages? Tonight I was playing around with my GoogleAnalytics and checking a dozen or so sites I […]
I recently took a full day Windows Server 2012 course and I prep’d for it by installing the Beta and making the following list of questions, which Microsoft staff answered at various points during the day: Q: Can HyperV live migrate without System Center 2012 A: Yes, just right click […]
Microsoft will have Office365 Academic pricing available in Canada and U.S. this summer but does not have a fixed date yet. The pricing is astonishingly cheap; for about $5.50 per month per account, Education eligible organizations receive the $27 per month corporate package: the FULL Office 2010 suite (Outlook, Word, […]
Um, yes it does! Win8 Defender now includes Security Essentials. Here is the official word direct from Microsoft “Windows 8 Release Preview comes with Windows Defender, which has been improved in Windows 8 to provide the same level of malware protection as Microsoft Security Essentials. You do not need to […]
Media Center is an awesome app the Microsoft is stripping from the default install of Windows 8. Windows Media Center is not preinstalled in Windows 8 Release Preview. If you want to use Windows Media Center, you need to add it by following these steps: Swipe in from the right […]
You can download the latest build of Microsoft Windows 8 from windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download . Keep in mind that you can download a SETUP or an .ISO. Personally, I would only work with the .ISO on a fresh harddrive (or fresh partition 🙂 ) The CD key for this is TK8TP-9JN6P-7X7WW-RFFTV-B7QPF And if […]
Office 15 (likely Office 2013) is in private beta now and will have a public beta your can play with next month, in June 2012. The product should release to manufacturing (RTM) late this year and likely be available to buy very early in 2013. Initially users will notice that the […]
This video covers many important features of HyperV version 3 which will be included in Windows Server 2012 as well as Windows 8 desktop, such as: the new VHD format is VHDx and supports upto 16TB multiple VHDx’s can be “pooled” into one virtual disk, up to 64TB in size […]
Microsoft Announced the following features will be included in Windows 8 Enterprise. Win8 Ent, will include everything in Windows 8 Professional plus: Windows To Go is a fully manageable corporate Windows 8 desktop on a bootable external USB stick. This will allow IT organizations to support the “Bring Your Own […]
Microsofts Steven Sinofsky announced that Windows 8 RC1 will be released in the first week of June 2012. This means it will almost certainly make a September Release to Manufacturing (RTM).
Last night I ran Windows Update patches on my Exchange 2007 server and now BlackBerry’s can not send or receive email. All services are running and can restart without problem. I can log into Blackberry Admin Service without problem. If this sounds like your problem, then you likely have the […]
Microsoft announced that Windows 8 will ship this year and will come in two common forms at retail and OEM outlets: Windows 8 Windows 8 Pro Microsofts Brandon LeBlanc explains the difference: Windows 8 Pro is designed to help tech enthusiasts and business/technical professionals obtain a broader set of Windows […]