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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
These two videos show some of the functionality that has been added since the Technical Preview released September 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLSeD0J6Dx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_jCh2PkY0g
What this means is that there is a pre-Beta of the next version of Office, but you can’t get it. “Not since Office 2003 has Microsoft taken such an “ambitious undertaking” to reinvent the productivity suite. Today, PJ Hough, CVP of development for Microsoft’s Office division, announced the “technical preview” Read more
“ReFs” or Resilient File System is a new file system written from scratch for Windows 8. ReFs is compatible with NTFS and is supposed to reduce complexity while being able to automatically detect corruption on RAIDed disks. “…Together, Storage Spaces and ReFS have been architected with headroom to innovate further, and Read more
Many sites are now saying the Microsoft will not have betas of their core products, namely Windows 8, IE10 and Office 2012 at CES in January of 2012. Instead it appears that these products will go to public beta’s in February 2012.
In Windows 8 Microsoft disabled 13 Services, set a number other Services to Manual Start (from Automatic Start) and set another group of services to “Start on Demand” (like Windows Update and Plug and Play Services). A test from Windows8Beta.com shows the results of these changes:
“…It is tempting for some to think of Windows as one entity or group, or for some to think of Windows as just a set of specific people. Sometimes someone speaks at a conference or has a blog, and that comes to represent the product for you. In reality, Windows Read more
At the World Partner Conference (WPC), Microsoft fist publicly showed off Windows Server 8 (codename). They show that the number of CPU’s per VM is no longer limited, an amazing new cluster feature called Hyper-V Replica, and explain that in Server 2008 R2 you can overcommit memory
“…According to the info available, Windows 8 RTM would be released in April 2012 and from couple of jobs posted separately, it seems Microsoft is gearing up and recruiting people for marketing of Windows 8. Within past one week two jobs has been posted on Microsoft Careers site referring to Read more
…The news for the naysayers. . . is very bad indeed. IE9 absolutely flattened FF4 on my own DFScale battery, with a speed score of 6.590 versus 3.539. Maybe IE9 isn’t the best performer in every test, but it’s not because Microsoft is too focused on test numbers… …If you consider Read more