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    Microsoft System Center 2012 review: Streamlined cloud service management

    Posted May 20, 2012 - 7:27 am

    With System Center 2012, Microsoft delivers tools to help customers wring more efficiency, uptime and performance out of their existing hardware and software.

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    Keeping Windows 8 in sync with SkyDrive

    Posted March 12, 2012 - 2:39 pm

    Hands-on with SkyDrive. What works, what's missing, and what you can expect.

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    A deep dive into Windows 8 Consumer Preview

    Posted March 6, 2012 - 8:19 am

    Windows 8 Consumer Preview offers a new look at Microsoft's upcoming interface for both computers and tablets. Is one device being shortchanged in favor of the other?

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    Hands on with Windows Server 8 beta

    Posted March 4, 2012 - 8:55 am

    Our reviewer doesn't like the Metro user interface as the default for a server OS, but other than that lauds its new features.

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    Hands on with Windows 8 CP: Battery life test

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 12:00 pm

    Microsoft brags about massive power management improvements on Windows 8. We put the Consumer Preview up for a battery life test run.

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    Hands on with Windows 8 CP: New and improved built-in tools

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 12:00 pm

    We take a peek behind Metro and show you some of the more interesting changes to the classic Desktop.

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    Windows 8 and OSX Lion: How do they compare?

    Posted September 17, 2011 - 9:06 am

    It's still far too early in Windows 8's development cycle to pit the nascent OS against its fully-baked competition. But Apple's recently released OSX Lion offers up the most recent, competing view of what a PC operating system should look like in the age of the smartphone and tablet.

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    Windows Server 8: Massive storage enhancements ahead

    Posted September 14, 2011 - 11:30 am

    The killer feature in Windows Server 8: The new and built-in data deduplication, which detects duplicate data in files and folders, puts it in a separate store and simply gets rid of the redundant bytes.

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    Windows Server 8: Highlights of the upcoming server OS

    Posted September 14, 2011 - 11:30 am

    ITworld got an exclusive first look at Windows Server 8. Highlights of the over 300 new features include some pretty hefty performance improvements and balancing in Hyper-V 3 that's sure to make the virtualization crowd go wild.

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    Review: Microsoft Office 365

    Posted August 30, 2011 - 10:35 am

    Microsoft Office 365 is the company’s answer to online productivity suites. A replacement for Microsoft’s Business Online Professional Services, Office 365 includes online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, as well as Lync and SharePoint. Together, these comprehensive and powerful online office tools represent the best overall value you can find today.

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    Windows 7 rollouts without the pain

    Posted August 15, 2011 - 10:05 am

    Migrating to the next version of Windows can be a painful exercise for enterprise IT departments. That said, with support for Windows XP ending and with hardware refresh cycles kicking in, the move to Win 7 is unavoidable for most enterprises.

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    The fall and rise of Microsoft Silverlight

    Posted July 6, 2011 - 10:48 am

    Before hitching up with Windows Phone and Windows 8, Microsoft's cross-platform rich Internet application framework gets a modest upgrade

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    Review: Office 365 vs. Google Apps

    Posted June 28, 2011 - 9:20 am

    With Office 365 now available in final form, here's what you need to know to decide if Office 365 or Google Apps (or neither) is right for your organization

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    Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

    Posted April 13, 2011 - 11:26 am

    Microsoft's server virtualization platform pairs good performance with extensive management, at the cost of significant added complexity

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    Windows Small Business Server 2011 shines

    Posted February 24, 2011 - 12:07 pm

    Microsoft's affordable bundle of Exchange, SharePoint, easy remote access, and integrated management continues to be a great platform on which to build a small business.

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    Microsoft WebMatrix is a mixed bag

    Posted January 25, 2011 - 3:16 pm

    Microsoft's free and easy Web development tool for noncoders has some nice features, as well as irksome shortcomings.

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    Microsoft delivers enterprise backup tool

    Posted January 24, 2011 - 12:13 pm

    Microsoft's flagship backup and archiving software, Data Protection Manager, has come a long way since we first tested it in 2005.

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    Microsoft beefs up System Center with module

    Posted January 24, 2011 - 12:11 pm

    Service Manager 2010 is the new workflow and incident response module that's been added to the Microsoft System Center suite of management applications. Conceptually, it's a process control application with two faces: a management console for network managers to perform workflow operations, and a Web-based help desk Self Service Portal for end users.

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    Review: Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360

    Posted November 4, 2010 - 11:19 am

    "You are the controller." It sounds so simple, so friendly, so patently cool. Act naturally, in other words, and for the most part, Kinect can tell what you're up to. The trouble is, sometimes it can't.

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    Microsoft WebMatrix ramps up ASP.Net development

    Posted November 3, 2010 - 10:52 am

    WebMatrix combines excellent all-in-one installation, gallery of templates, and coding shortcuts to speed the development, deployment of Windows-based websites.

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    Microsoft's Office Web Apps: So far, pretty so-so

    Posted October 4, 2010 - 10:25 am

    When Microsoft launched its Office Web Apps back in June, the most logical reaction was a simple, “What took you so long?” Competitors such as Google Docs and Zoho proved long ago that it’s possible to host free Office-like programs on the Internet and deliver them to any Web browser—for free. They’ve improved over the years, gaining more and more fans along the way.

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    Review: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

    Posted March 16, 2010 - 11:09 am

    With virtualization taking over the computing world, enterprises everywhere are finding that virtual machines spread across an organization need to be managed as much as their physical computers are. Companies are also figuring out that these virtual machines have special needs and requirements that can multiply very quickly as servers are added, moved, changed or removed.

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    Microsoft adds SSL to AJAX CDN

    Posted November 30, 2009 - 3:39 pm

    Free security technology speeds up external-facing Web sites and offers edge caching support for AJAX libraries, including jQuery and ASP.Net AJAX

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    Windows 7 touch: Dead on arrival

    Posted September 14, 2009 - 8:58 am

    Integrating touchscreen technology into the OS sounds revolutionary -- until you try to use it

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    First look: Microsoft Office 2010

    Posted June 30, 2009 - 12:23 pm

    Call it serendipity. As I was working through my review of OpenOffice.org 3.1 and SoftMaker Office 2008, an early version of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Office 2010 was conveniently leaked to the Internet. Sporting mostly incremental improvements, Office 2010 serves to bridge the gap between the Vista and Windows 7 eras by streamlining the product's controversial Ribbon-based user interface and extending it to encompass the full range of Office applications.
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