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Windows Phone 8 Launch Event

Yesterday’s launch of Microsoft’s new smartphone operating system is a significant milestone for the company. Many have been waiting for this day, maybe for some, more so than the Windows 8 launch that occurred last week. Either way you look at it 2012 marks a major year in history for the company – seeing the Windows Server 2012 RTM, Office 2013 RTM, […]

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Windows 8 Global Launch Event

For those who missed the launch event live, here is the webcast of the Windows 8 launch from New York City, Oct. 25, 2012. This is just a quick post to link the webcast from last week; here is a extract from the Microsoft Newsroom site: Microsoft Corp. today announced the global availability of its

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SkyDrive now has Recycle Bin and Excel Survey tool on the way

As I am a big fan of the SkyDrive service and have been a long time user (Live Mesh Technical Preview user), I am always keen to keep up on the developments of the service as it moves into a more mature state. You can read the development team’s blog here: http://windowsteamblog.com/skydrive/b/skydrive/. Although in this post I wanted to

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Discontinued: Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps

It was published last week that Microsoft will formally discontinue development of the Forfront product lineup. This will mean that all discontinued Forefront offerings will no longer be available for purchase as of Dec. 1, 2012. Microsoft will continue to provide maintenance and support for the remaining Forefront solutions already deployment through the standard Microsoft support life-cycle. The following Forefront-branded solutions

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Windows Server 2012 RTM

Following on from my post a few minutes ago, it is also exciting to read the Windows Server 2012 released to manufacturing announcement which has also been posted over at the Windows Server team blog. There are so many new features that will be introduced with the release of Windows Server 2012, this release will be

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Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone

For some, the wait is finally over! The much-anticipated and talked about release of Windows in Microsoft’s history to-date is now at the release to manufacturing (RTM) milestone. I was only discussing with a colleague today that it seemed as though Microsoft was running late by a week to announce the RTM milestone, after making the commitment to

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Multiple Exchange Server Accounts now supported in Outlook 2010

It’s been a long while since my last blog post; unfortunately their has just been no time to write anything! In fact this is my first post for 2010, happy New Year everyone! (better late than never!). As the title of this post states; a long awaited feature which now exists in the new Outlook

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Free Anti-Virus Software: Microsoft Security Essentials now available

Well, it’s been a bit of a wait for us Australian’s but we now have access to the Microsoft Security Essentials software. This is great news for everyone. You may remember back not so long ago when Microsoft released the Microsoft Anti-Spyware BETA then that package transformed into Windows Defender upon full release. Now days

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