Windows 8.1 (Blue) will be a free update
According to the official Windows blog Windows “Blue” will indeed be named Window 8.1 and that it will be free for current Windows 8 consumers through the Windows Store.
So through the Windows Store, that is interesting not Windows Update.
It seems logical that enterprises can use their WSUS or any other deployment method, so I assume it will be available as a stand alone download.
Source: The Windows Blog
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Categories: Windows8 Tags: Features new to Windows 8, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Windows 8, Windows Store, Windows Update, WSUS
Surface Pro firmware and driver pack
- Cumulative
- and
- for the
- . This firmware and driver package contains drivers for all of the components in the Surface Pro device, as well as updates to the system firmware that have been released via
- . These drivers and firmware are not compatible with Surface
- .
- Use these drivers and firmware to prepare your custom images for enterprise deployment, or to repair problems with custom installations of
- on your Surface Pro device.
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Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Device driver, Firmware, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Windows, RT (TV network), Wi-Fi, Windows Update
Update Rollups for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 are NOT cumulative
If you pay attention to the updates Microsoft rolls out each month or take note of what Windows Updates are on your Windows 8 PC or Windows Server 2012 Server, you may have seen some monthly rollup updates.
These update rollups are not cumulative updates. You do need to apply each of the monthly update rollups to get the fixes and enhancements from each month. Installing the February 2013 Update Rollup does not get you the January 2013 to October 2012 rollup updates. This is to say, these rollups are independent of each other. Searching on the KB number will discuss what each rollup is addressing that month. Note that these updates do not focus on a particular component as we have seen with previous cumulative or rollup type updates but are broader to Windows.
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Update Rollups For Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Explained – Ask Premier Field Engineeri
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Categories: Microsoft Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Windows, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2012, Windows Update
Windows 8.1 (Blue) will be a free update
According to the official Windows blog Windows “Blue” will indeed be named Window 8.1 and that it will be free for current Windows 8 consumers through the Windows Store.
So through the Windows Store, that is interesting not Windows Update.
It seems logical that enterprises can use their WSUS or any other deployment method, so I assume it will be available as a stand alone download.
Source: The Windows Blog
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Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Features new to Windows 8, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Windows 8, Windows Store, Windows Update, WSUS
MMS 2013 Keynote recording now available
Good keynote from Brad Anderson: Cloud Optimize Your Business with Microsoft Management Solutions
- MP3 (Audio only)
File size
103.9 MB
- MP4 (iPod, Zune HD)
File size
612.8 MB
- Mid Quality WMV (Lo-band, Mobile)
File size
570.7 MB
- High Quality MP4 (iPad, PC)
File size
1.3 GB
- Mid Quality MP4 (WP7, HTML5)
File size
943.2 MB
- High Quality WMV (PC, Xbox, MCE)
1.8 GB
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Categories: Microsoft Tags: Brad Anderson, IPad, iPod, Keynote, Microsoft, MPEG-4 Part 14, Xbox, Zune HD
Step-by-Step: Extend Your Private Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Networks
Windows Azure Virtual Networks allow us to securely extend our Private Cloud with a hybrid network infrastructure that leverages the best of two worlds: the low-latency and high-bandwidth available with our on-premise datacenter networks with the elastic, pay-as-you-go cloud model of Windows Azure Virtual Networks and Virtual Machines.
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Step-by-Step: Extend Your Private Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Networks
Azure Virtual Networks allow us to securely extend our Private Cloud with a hybrid network infrastructure that leverages the best of two worlds: the low-latency and high-bandwidth available with our on-premise datacenter networks with the elastic, pay-as-you-go cloud model of Windows Azure Virtual Networks and Virtual Machines.
Continue at IT Pros ROCK! Blog
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Categories: Microsoft Tags: Azure Virtual Network, Cloud, Cloud computing, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Virtual machine, Windows Azure Virtual Network
Less than a year remaining until XP End of Support
Yesterday marked the day of the 1-year count down of when Microsoft softs supporting Windows XP.
In this blog post Stephen Rose provides some answers to help explain what the end of support is and what you need to do to move to a modern OS like Windows 7 or Windows 8.
Microsoft will end Extended Support on April 8, 2014. Why?
In 2002, Microsoft introduced its Support Lifecycle policy based on customer feedback to have more transparency and predictability of support for Microsoft products. Per this policy, Microsoft Business and Developer products – including Windows and Office products – receive a minimum of 10 years of support (five years Mainstream Support and five years Extended Support), at the supported service pack level. Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 will go out of support on April 8, 2014. If your organization has not started the migration to a modern desktop, you are late.
Continue at the Springboard Series Blog
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Categories: Microsoft Tags: 8 April 2014, Microsoft, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP
Windows 8 Camp in a BOX
This download includes the hands-on-labs, presentations, samples and resources from the Windows 8 camps. The Windows 8 camps are free training events for developers ramping up on Windows Store app development. To sign-up for a Windows camp, please visit http://devcamps.ms/windows.
Download Windows 8 Camp in a Box
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Categories: Windows8 Tags: Features new to Windows 8, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Windows, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Windows Store
Towards Interoperable Pointer Events: Evolving Input Events for Multiple Devices
Today, the W3C has accepted and published Microsoft’s member submission describing a new way for Web sites to support multiple pointing devices such as mouse, pen, and multi-touch. Our proposal for a new Pointer Events Web standard is based on the APIs available today in IE10 on Windows 8.
The Web is more exciting and interactive for users when sites enable experiences for multi-touch. It is even better when the same site continues to work if you switch to using a mouse or pen. We believe the Web should not be fragmented into sites designed for only one type of input. We designed Pointer Events to make it easier for developers to avoid this fragmentation by abstracting the differences of input devices while still allowing for device-specific enhancements when desired.
Our goal with this submission is to work with other browser vendors and the wider Web community to move to adopt a new approach to multi-touch input. In the future, we hope that Web developers will only need to write to one pointer input model no matter if their users are using mouse, pen, touch, or whatever comes next. The W3C noted, “This Submission comes at a time of significant developer concern about creating content that works well on multiple input modalities, and in light of some disadvantages to the touch event model currently under standardization.”
Other approaches to supporting multi-touch input require Web developers to write their code once for mouse input and again for touch, dealing with the sometimes complex interactions between the two models (for example, when touch events are mapped to mouse events for compatibility). Throughout the development of IE10, and thanks to your feedback, we designed the Pointer Events model to be more compatible with the existing Web and avoid these complexities.
We encourage you to review the proposal and share your thoughts. The specification is a starting point and calls out several open issues for discussion and we look forward to making improvements based on your feedback
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