Tag: Windows 8
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Stream-lining: A review of my new companion device.
I have always had a deal with the companies that have supported me over the years: If you give me a product to test and I like it, I will write about it. If I don’t like it, I will not write about it. That is why there are so few negative reviews on my…
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An Epic Advantage to Windows 8 & the Cloud
The vast majority of computer users will never care about this. That is because the vast majority of computer users use a single computer for years on end. They use them at home, and then maybe (assuming it is a laptop) they take it to Internet cafes, possibly school or work, and likely on the…
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The Harsh Realities of the Exam Room
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how tough I found Exam 74-409 was in my article Another Tough Exam. I also mentioned that Microsoft exams were meant to be tough, and going into an exam unprepared can (and usually will) come back to bite you. Last week I decided to bite the bullet…
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Converting VHDs to VHDX and other questions…
Many of the articles I write for both The World According to Mitch and the Canadian IT Pro Connection come directly from people I meet through my travels. They send me questions about technology by e-mail and rather than simply replying to them, if I feel the questions are relevant, I write them up as…
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Windows 8: Client Hyper-V and Why It Matters
Recently I sat down with Kevin Remde from Microsoft’s US DPE team to discuss virtualization in Windows 8. We had a great discussion about VDI, client-side Hyper-V, and a lot of other interesting options. Let us know what you think! -M http://aka.ms/fe3epl
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Converting an SD Card to Permanent Storage in Windows Devices
So as you know I was all excited to buy the very first Microsoft Surface Pro. I bought the 128 GB model because I knew that despite the fact that I have all sorts of external hard drives I was even likely to ax out 128 GB pretty quick. Fortunately between Cloud-based storage (SkyDrive for…
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A Tour of the Surface Pro with Tom’s Hardware
On the day that Microsoft released the Surface Pro I sat down with Alex Davies from Tom’s Hardware (www.tomshardware.com) and gave him a little tour of the device. He recorded it and that recording went live on Monday. Check it out and let me know what you think! –MDG http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Microsoft-Surface-Pro-Hands-on-Demo,21030.html
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Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro: It’s Here!
For most of the months of October through December, while I was on tour talking about Windows 8, the new Office 2013 & Office 365, and Windows Server 2012 the most common question I heard was not about any of these products… it was something like ‘So where’s your Surface? Why don’t you have a…
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Windows 8: Client Hyper-V and Why It Matters
In December I sat down with Kevin Remde, Technical Evangelist with Microsoft USA, to discuss how Windows 8 now includes Microsoft Hyper-V. It is a great conversation about why you might want to use the power of Hyper-V virtualization on the desktop, what is required, and how to get started. I invite you to watch…
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My First Surface Article
Ok, so maybe it is not my first article on Microsoft Surface, but it is the first article that I am writing from one. A friend here was kind enough to loan me one for a few weeks, and even though my EliteBook is within arm’s reach I decided to spend my morning on this…
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Getting Started With Hyper-V in Server 2012 and Windows 8
You all know by now that I am a huge Hyper-V fan… I have been using it since 2008, but with the latest release I am unabashedly loving Microsoft’s Layer 1 hypervisor. The fact that it has been included in Windows 8 – as in, no different from the virtualization platform I use in my…
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The Microsoft Store for Business… Ask Caden!
The Microsoft Store in Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall is the hottest address for technology in the Greater Toronto Area. People have been coming from all over to see what’s new, ranging from Windows 8 laptops, all-in-ones, Windows Phone 8 devices, and especially the new Microsoft Surface tablet, the hottest device on the market today. Of course…
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The Microsoft Store: The place to be this week-end
If you are in or around the Greater Toronto Area this week-end then there is no better place to be than the Microsoft Store in Yorkdale Mall. The first international store and the largest in the chain, the opening of Microsoft’s newest retail store can only be descried as a huge success, with literally hundreds…
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From Server Core to GUI to… MinShell?
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro. In Windows Server 2008 we were introduced to a revolutionary way to install Windows Server: Server Core. Server Core may look boring – there’s nothing to it except the command prompt – but to an IT…