Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system targets Apple’s business model
Venture Beast
JUNE 25, 2021
Windows 11 includes a new Windows Store that will let developers use their own in-app payment systems and pay no commissions to Microsoft. Read More.
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Microsoft releases Windows as a subscription, announces pricing, launching its ‘Cloud PC’ era
GeekWire
AUGUST 2, 2021
Microsoft released Windows 365 for business users this morning, making its flagship operating system widely available as a subscription for the first time. It’s a major step toward Microsoft’s vision for “Cloud PCs.”
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Microsoft says Windows 11’s File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’
The Verge
MARCH 15, 2022
Image: Microsoft. Microsoft appears to be testing a new type of ad inside File Explorer on Windows 11. Microsoft MVP and Twitter user Florian Beaubois discovered an ad in the latest test build of Windows 11, prompting users to check out the Microsoft Editor.
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Windows 11 has a release date: Microsoft to start ‘phased and measured’ rollout Oct. 5
GeekWire
AUGUST 31, 2021
Windows 11 in dark mode, with the new centered Start menu. Microsoft Photo). Microsoft announced this morning that it will release Windows 11 on Oct. 5 as a free upgrade for existing Windows 10 machines, and pre-installed on new computers. ” The company announced plans for Windows 11 in June.
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Microsoft is changing the Windows 11 minimum requirements
The Verge
JUNE 24, 2021
Now that Microsoft has announced Windows 11 , you may be wondering what you’ll need to install it. Confirming information pulled from last week’s leak , all you’ll need to run it is a 64-bit CPU (or SoC), 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage, specs that are only slightly higher than Windows 10’s current requirements.
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Windows 10 cheat sheet
Computerworld Vertical IT
MAY 19, 2022
When it was first released in July 2015, Windows 10 was the best operating system to come along from Microsoft in a long time. Windows 10 introduced many other key features as well, including the Edge browser, the Cortana digital assistant, links to Microsoft’s cloud-based OneDrive cloud storage service, and plenty more.
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Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind, and Microsoft is struggling to explain why
The Verge
JUNE 29, 2021
Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. It’s an unusual surprise if you purchased a new PC for Windows 10, or perhaps you have a perfectly capable machine that’s even older.
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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.
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Here's Your Windows 11 Upgrade Guide
Gizmodo
AUGUST 27, 2021
Windows 11 is on the way, and if you’re curious, you can actually try it out right now. If you’d rather wait for polished public version of Microsoft’s next operating system to be released, there are some things you need to check on your PC ahead of time to make sure there’s a smooth and stress-free transition.
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Cloud Technology: Beyond Data Storage
Galido
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Information Technology Blog - - Cloud Technology: Beyond Data Storage - Information Technology Blog. Main usage of the cloud which has bought cloud into limelight was its data storage and pay-for-use facilities. But today cloud is much more than data storage. Windows Azure is one of the well-known clouds that provides PaaS.
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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
The Verge
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
percent of computer users still are on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft no longer supports it for free. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. No harm, no foul.
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Before Patch Tuesday, a to-do list to avoid trouble
Computerworld Vertical IT
JUNE 13, 2022
It’s the day before Windows machines get offered updates from Microsoft. You keep everything in the cloud, you use a Microsoft account, you don’t mind reinstalling your OS if need be. You could call today Patch-Tuesday Eve. What should you be doing to prepare? It depends on what kind of computer user you are.
Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 19, 2017
The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important. is already with us.
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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Go will start at $550, as pandemic puts PCs back in the spotlight
GeekWire
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Go will be released on Oct. Microsoft Photo). in the consumer market for a configuration with an Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage. A model of the Surface Laptop Go with an i5 processor, 8GB of memory and 256GB of storage will sell for $899.99.
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Best Laptops Under 200 And 300 Dollars
Galido
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Operating System. Windows 10 Home 64-bit. The touchpad supports multi-finger gestures providing convenience to use Windows 10. 64GB eMMC Storage (Upgradable via SD card slot). Operating System. Windows 10 Pro S. Operating System. Windows 10 Home 64-bit. GHz Processor.
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Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 15-inch review: redemption
The Verge
APRIL 20, 2021
Microsoft promised that these improvements would deliver significantly better performance and battery life than the previous Surface generation. So this review will largely focus on the new system’s performance. In addition to that processor, the 15-inch Surface Laptop 4 I reviewed comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
” It’s called the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, using the industry lingo for a basic type of hardware that relies on cloud-based storage and processing rather than a beefy CPU and hard drive on a traditional computer. “That is exactly what we’re going for,” he said.
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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed
All Things Distributed
MAY 8, 2012
Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments ().
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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and.
Sean Daniel
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Interaction with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. I know I have talked before about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 , and how it can help your Small Business with thin clients, old clients, seasonal employees and even reducing the number of machines in the office by getting one nice one.
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Empower Your Content: Free Software to Convert Word to ePub and Share the World
Kitaboo
MAY 8, 2024
Publishers and authors can easily convert their Microsoft Word document files into this format and make them available to a wider audience. It offers cross-platform compatibility for Windows, macOS, and Linux to ensure easy accessibility to users across diverse operating systems.
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Part V – NVMe overview and primer (Where to learn more, what this all means)
Storage IO Blog
MARCH 21, 2016
Keep an eye on among others including Cisco (Servers), Dell (Servers), EMC (DSSD), HPE, Intel (Servers, Drives and Cards), Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft (Drivers, Operating Systems, Storage Spaces), NetApp, OCZ, Oracle, PMC, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware and Western Digital (acquisition of SANdisk and HGST).
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Technology Short Take #81
Scott Lowe
APRIL 6, 2017
Operating Systems/Applications. Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. A command-line client for Twitter ? Yes, please! (I Virtualization.
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Technology Short Take 130
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 21, 2020
Operating Systems/Applications. According to The Verge , Windows 10 users aren’t very happy about Microsoft’s forced roll-out of its Chromium-based Edge browser. This site has more details about the X11 Window system than most people care to know. ” Storage. Programming.
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Technology Short Take 123
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 17, 2020
dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. The next day, the Microsoft Security Response Center confirmed the vulnerability. Operating Systems/Applications. Time to get patching, folks! This is kind of cool.
What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?
Dataconomy
APRIL 13, 2023
The VNC protocol is designed to be platform-independent, meaning that it can be used to access and control computers running on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others. The ability to access and control a computer using any operating system that supports VNC, such as Windows, Linux, macOS, and more.
First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more
GeekWire
JUNE 29, 2021
“My first job was as a software design engineer at Microsoft in the Windows NT team at that time (what is today the core Windows Operating system).”. My role was to develop the “Distributed File System” in Windows. What were your responsibilities there? “My Dan Lewis , Convoy.
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What’s the best student laptop? We asked students
The Verge
AUGUST 20, 2020
Kristin Wallace purchased a budget HP laptop for her daughter, Bella, but didn’t realize how quickly the nine-year-old would fill up 32GB of storage. “It I need a computer with more storage space,” said Bella, who uses the laptop to Zoom with friends and take virtual guitar lessons and math enrichment classes.
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Scott Lowe
JUNE 18, 2017
Operating Systems/Applications. Aside from a Windows VM I maintain for the occasional thing I can’t do effectively on Linux or OS X, I haven’t worked with Windows in any significant capacity in quite a while. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. RegEx tester. Enough said.
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Technology Short Take #84
Scott Lowe
JUNE 18, 2017
Operating Systems/Applications. Aside from a Windows VM I maintain for the occasional thing I can’t do effectively on Linux or OS X, I haven’t worked with Windows in any significant capacity in quite a while. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. RegEx tester. Enough said.
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Technology Short Take #85
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 16, 2017
This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. This post helps explain CRI-O in a bit more detail.
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Scott Lowe
MARCH 7, 2014
Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Also from the same folks is a version of cloud-init for Windows instances in cloud environments.
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Scott Lowe
APRIL 19, 2019
” Operating Systems/Applications. Mark Church from Docker provides an update on Windows containers with Docker and Kubernetes , specifically calling out the support for Windows node as of the Kubernetes 1.14 Here’s Microsoft’s side of the same announcement. There are some useful Bash tips here.
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Technology Short Take #46
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Operating Systems/Applications. Did you happen to notice that CoreOS is now available on Microsoft Azure ? I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section. of the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter will keep popping up. Virtualization.
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Technology Short Take 104
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Operating Systems/Applications. Microsoft is adding a third Windows container image, in addition to the existing Nano Server and Windows Server Core images. If you’re interested in possibly giving fzf a try, you might have a look here and here as well. An 8TB NVMe drive? Chris Evans has more details.
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60 Technology Short Take #79
Scott Lowe
MARCH 2, 2017
Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and now an architect at Microsoft Azure, has a blog post about how Kubernetes enables containers-as-a-service (CaaS), which in turn is the foundation for the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Operating Systems/Applications. That’s handy. Virtualization. environments.
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Technology Short Take 97
Scott Lowe
MARCH 30, 2018
Thomas Maurer has a “first impressions” post on the Microsoft Surface Book 2. (I I must admit I’ve been considering adding a Microsoft device to my collection.). Operating Systems/Applications. Windows Server 2019 is now in preview (see this blog post ), and will include Kubernetes support.
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Lenovo Chromebook Duet review: this has no business costing so little
The Verge
MAY 19, 2020
If you want a Windows alternative, you’re looking at the lowest end of the Acer Aspire or Acer Swift lines or other extremely bare-bones options like the Motile 14. The Chromebook Duet’s base model has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. I tested the $299 version, which has the same processor and RAM but 128GB of storage.
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Happy New Year, what's in store for you in 2011 - SeanDaniel.com
Sean Daniel
JANUARY 5, 2011
There is so much new Microsoft technology coming out to make business more efficient, it’s hard to keep tabs on it all. First, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard edition as Released to Manufacturing (RTM!). Technology Tips, Tricks & News - featuring WHS, SBS and other Microsoft and Related Technology. Newer Post.
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Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here. What a time to be alive: Microsoft has its own Linux distribution. The race to make Kubernetes ever smaller continues.
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Restoring Files from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008/2011 - SeanDaniel.com
Sean Daniel
JANUARY 4, 2012
As you recall, Small Business Server 2003 used Windows NT Backup (or NTBackup for short). So instead, you can download the Windows NT Backup and Restore Utility for Windows 7 (KB 974674). Be sure to choose the version you need based on what operating system you’re running on. Trust me!). at 10:34 AM.
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Scott Lowe
APRIL 24, 2015
First, he provides a high-level overview of Mesos ; that’s followed up by a slightly deeper look at Mesos, then a discussion of persistent storage and fault tolerance. Operating Systems/Applications. Much ado was made about the Microsoft-Docker announcement a while back regarding the availability of Docker on Windows.
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60 Technology Short Take #62
Scott Lowe
MARCH 8, 2016
Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Trevor Roberts recently posted an article discussing Windows images in your OpenStack cloud. Operating Systems/Applications. Seen this ?
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Technology Short Take #54
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Operating Systems/Applications. However, until now, most of the focus on unikernels has overlooked the operations side. Thomas Maurer has a nice post on first steps with Windows Containers.
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60 Technology Short Take #44
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
The use of public cloud offerings as disaster recovery targets is on the rise; note this article from Microsoft on how to migrate on-premises workloads to Azure using Azure Site Recovery. Operating Systems/Applications. Mike Foley has a blog post on how to go from zero to Windows domain controller in only 4 reboots.
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