Year: 2010

Microsoft Lowering Prices on Older Xboxes

Microsoft apparently held a media roundtable Monday night after its Xbox press event, confirming that it will eventually phase out its existing models in favor of the new “slim” model. Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP Certification at Certkingdom.com My colleague Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat reported: “The new Xbox 360 with a 250-gigabyte hard […]

Antivirus Protection Varies Widely Between Windows Versions

German antivirus test lab AV-Test.org started a new series of tests this August aimed at certifying antivirus products for use on specific operating systems. The August test used Windows 7 while a just-completed test challenged the same vendors under Windows XP SP2. A comparison of results from the two tests reveals some surprising disparities in […]

Microsoft Dumps Live Spaces for WordPress

Microsoft and WordPress.com announced Monday that WordPress will be the default blogging platform for Windows Live. The partnership will allow Windows Live Spaces customers to upgrade to WordPress.com, let WordPress users notify friends about blog posts via Messenger, and let Windows Live users easily create new blogs on WordPress.com. Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft […]

Microsoft: Silverlight Still ‘Very Important and Strategic’

Microsoft on Monday defended its Silverlight strategy, and stressed that the product is “very important and strategic” to the company. The comments, from Bob Muglia, president of the server and tools division at Microsoft, came after an interview he did with ZDNet in which he said Microsoft’s Silverlight strategy has shifted. Best Microsoft MCTS Training […]

Dell enhances PartnerDirect

Dell has added more sweeteners to its PartnerDirect channel programme across Europe to help partners to grab more market share. The vendor has updated its existing certification paths in enterprise architecture (EA) and SME, included a webcast infrastructure, and also added new face-to-face training programmes. The updates will give partners access to special pricing, support, […]

Vendor exams under fire

Microsoft and Novell’s certification schemes have been criticised for being too vendor-specific, and failing to test candidates’ experience. Jeremy Rawlings, education manger for Unisys, said vendor certification models focus too much on learning material parrot-fashion – rather than industry experience. “All certification proves is that you can pass an exam,” he said. Best Microsoft MCTS […]

Microsoft Office 365 Tackles the Cloud, Rivals Like Google

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Office 365, a solution that integrates Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online in an always up-to-date cloud service. Office 365 is being targeted to Microsoft’s sweet spot market; the SMB. In particular, to small businesses that may not have the resources (or interest) in maintaining on-premise Exchange and […]

Microsoft Starts Rolling Out Xbox.com Facelift

The Major has spoken. Major Nelson, the gamertag for Microsoft Xbox Live’s programming director Larry Hryb, announced “a major facelift” happening at Xbox.com today. Chief among these is a browser-based avatar editor where you can edit and preview your avatar before purchase. Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP Certification at Certkingdom.com But so far, […]

Microsoft Releases Office 2010

Microsoft on Tuesday took the beta tags off its latest office suite and formally unveiled Office 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010. The product is now available at 35,000 retail stores like Best Buy or online at Amazon.com, and can also be purchased pre-loaded on a variety of PCs. For more, see PCMag’s full review […]

Microsoft Windows 8 Coming in 2012?

Microsoft is generally tight-lipped about its operating system releases, but its efforts to stay mum on the topic were apparently undermined by one of its own last week. In an Oct. 22 blog post from Microsoft Netherlands, the writer noted: “Furthermore, Microsoft is on course for the next version of Windows. But it will take […]

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