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Info about Microsoft Exam 70-236

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Microsoft TS: Exchange Server 2007, configuring; the 70-236 plays an significant role in getting your certification. This test for Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (TS) was first released in February of 2007. As it is the container with other Microsoft certification exams, this too is tremendously detailed and covers various diverse technological areas.

 


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Course Outline:
– Configuring Recipients & Public Folders
– The Configuring of Exchange Infrastructure
– Monitoring & Reporting
– Setting up and Configuring of Microsoft Exchange Servers
– Configuring for Disaster Recovery

It is a core examination and is obtainable in English and  German. When you do pass the Exam 70-236: TS, you complete the necessities for certification(s) such as: MCST (Microsoft certified technology specialist): Microsoft exchange server 2007 configuration.

A applicant qualified for Exam 70-236 TS: Exchange Server – 2007, Configuring, normally:

– Administers messaging security with Exchange Server – 2007
– Recovers the messaging servers & databases using Exchange Server – 2007
– Sets up and manages Microsoft Exchange Server – 2007
– Supervises and troubleshoots Exchange Server – 2007

To help you in preparation for this test, there are example questions and answers accessible on the web accompanied with detailed elucidations. Sample questions and answers provide the candidates the knowledge similar to that of taking the real test and thus ensure that they completely appreciate the questions and also the concepts of the questions. There are many sites that offer these 70-236 examination questions and answers and exam simulators that assist you to pass your 70-236 exams in the first attempt itself. Although you may have to spend some bucks here, it is a expensive investment that can help you overtake the exams with flying insignia.

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Dirty IT jobs: Partners in slime

Carcasses, garter belts, and anthrax — techs get nasty in the name of IT
You think your job is bad? You ain’t seen nothing until you’ve had to pick moldy food and cockroaches out of a dead PC or been asked to find out what your coworkers have been up to online when they were supposedly working. You definitely haven’t earned your IT creds until you’ve stood in two feet of water holding a plugged-in server while trying not to get electrocuted, found yourself inside a sniper’s crosshairs while you’re attempting to install a communications link, or had to worry about bombs going off while you’re futzing with network protocols.

 

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[ Also on InfoWorld: For more dirty IT jobs, see “The 7 dirtiest jobs in IT,” “Even dirtier IT jobs: The muck stops here,” and “The dirt locker: Dirty duty on the front lines of IT” | Find out which of our eight classic IT personality types best suit your temperament by taking the InfoWorld IT personality type quiz. ]

In our fourth installment of the Dirty Jobs series, we visit with the dedicated geeks who hold jobs like these and ask how they managed to survive or, in some cases, thrive under difficult conditions.

Next time you’re hating your job, remember: It could be worse.
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Dirty job No. 1: Systems sanitation engineer
Beer cans. Food wrappers. Cigarette butts. Moldy bread. Cockroaches. Things you’d typically find in the bottom of your average dumpster — only in this case, the dumpster is the shell of a discarded computer.

It’s all part of the job at Redemtech, an IT asset disposition firm that processes the aging hardware Fortune 500 companies no longer want. Somebody has to go through each piece and muck it out, decide what can be saved and what must be discarded, says Chomroeun “C-Ron” Sith, technical supervisor for Redemtech’s Grove City, Ohio, facility (and no relation to the Dark Lord).

Though it varies widely, Sith says approximately half of the systems he sees can be refurbished and resold. The other half gets recycled in an environmentally responsible way. Before that happens, they have to be inspected and cleaned  — and that’s where things can get nasty.

“Some of these things look like they’ve been sitting the back of a warehouse for years,” he says. “They come in covered in dust, with cobwebs, rat droppings, and roaches inside. Sometimes they’re so rusted that when you pick them up your hands turn orange. One of the systems we got in was covered in makeup. Every time my guys touched it, they got all glittery.”

Then there was the time they opened up a desktop CPU and found a dead animal.

“It may have been a rodent or a bird,” he says. “We couldn’t tell for sure. But it was definitely dead.”

Sith estimates less than 5 percent of the 6,000 to 10,000 items his facility processes each week arrive in such bad shape they have to be wrapped in plastic to avoid infecting his staff or causing allergic reactions. Still, that’s plenty.

“Every other week some associate comes to me and says, ‘I don’t want to touch that system, I can’t take these cockroaches any more, this is ridiculous.’ I get that complaint a lot.”

Dirty job survival tip: Don’t wear your Sunday best.

“I tell my guys, ‘You can wear whatever you want, but don’t get mad if you come home dirty,'” Sith says. “That happens about 99 percent of the time.”

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Understanding Microsoft MCAD Certification

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Certifications are a immense way to improve your resume. These are of a great advantage particularly when you are aiming for aggressive job profiles in the enormously dynamic IT industry. Microsoft, one of the most important names of the IT industry has its own education and skill development department that provides teaching to students and others, and also offers various professional certifications and qualifications. Being a supposed company, certifications from Microsoft are standard all over the world, and candidates with these certifications are always given favourite over the others.

 


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A very well-liked certification of all is the MCAD certification, which stands for Microsoft Certified Applications Developer. The audience profile for this certification entails IT professionals or developers, and candidates who wish to go in for the MCAD certification are expected to have a smallest amount of one to two years of experience in construction, deploying and marinating applications.

Like all Microsoft certifications, the MCAD certification too has a set of examinations emotionally involved with it, that need to be cleared by the candidate. These include written papers to test the theoretical base and theoretical knowledge of the candidates. There are practical exams too in which the candidates are put in environments and situations similar to the kinds they would be experience in real-time jobs. Here, they have to carry out a set of tasks given to them.

Place this certification; the candidates will be able to show their ability in just beginning applications by making use of the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET. For training purposes, Microsoft offers classroom education, which can be either supplement with, or even substituted with the online lectures. Apart from these, there is no end of e-learning material obtainable over the internet which can be accessed by the candidates. Self tests and other mock tests too can be taken as exercise before the specific exams to test the height of foundation.

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Microsoft Office 2010 takes on all comers

OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, IBM Lotus Symphony, SoftMaker Office, Corel WordPerfect, and Google Docs challenge the Microsoft juggernaut

Ask most people to name a productivity suite and chances are they’ll say Microsoft Office, but they might also name one of the numerous competitors that have sprung up. None have completely displaced the Microsoft monolith, but they’ve made inroads.

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Most of the competition has positioned itself as being better by being cheaper. SoftMaker Office has demonstrated you don’t always need to pay Microsoft’s prices to get some of the same quality, while OpenOffice.org proved you might not need to pay anything at all. Meanwhile, services like Google Docs are available for anyone with an Internet connection.

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Microsoft’s response has been to issue the newest version of Office (2010) in three retail editions with slightly less ornery pricing than before, as well as a free, ad-supported version (Microsoft Office Starter Edition) that comes preloaded on new PCs. Despite the budget-friendly competition, Office continues to sell, with Microsoft claiming back in January that one copy of Office 2010 is sold somewhere in the world every second. (Full disclosure: The author of this review recently bought a copy for his own use.)

How well do the alternatives shape up? And how practical is it to switch to them when you have an existing array of documents created in Microsoft Office? Those are the questions I had in mind when I sat down with both the new version of Microsoft Office and several other programs (and one cloud service) that have been positioned as low- or no-cost replacements.

Microsoft Office 2010
Despite all efforts to dethrone it, Microsoft Office remains the de facto standard for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and to a high degree, corporate email. Other programs may have individual features that are better implemented, but Microsoft has made the whole package work together, both across the different programs in the suite and in Windows itself, with increasing care and attention in each revision.

Test Center Scorecard

20%    20%    20%    15%    15%    10%
Microsoft Office 2010    10    10    10    8    9    9
9.5
Excellent
20%    20%    20%    15%    15%    10%
OpenOffice.org 3.3.0    7    7    7    7    7    7
7.0
Good
20%    20%    20%    15%    15%    10%
LibreOffice 3.3.1    7    7    7    7    7    7
7.0
Good
20%    20%    20%    15%    15%    10%
IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0    7    7    7    7    8    8
7.3
Good
20%    20%    20%    15%    15%    10%
SoftMaker Office 2010    9    9    9    7    7    9
8.4
Very Good
20%    20%    20%    15%    15%    10%
Corel WordPerfect Office X5    6    6    6    5    6    6
5.9
Poor
20%    20%    20%    15%    15%    10%
Google Docs    7    7    7    7    7    7
7.0
Good

If you avoided Office 2007 because of the radical changes to the interface — namely, the ribbon that replaced the conventional icon toolbars — three years’ time might change your mind. First, the ribbon’s no longer confined to Office only; it shows up in many other programs and isn’t as alien as before. Second, Microsoft addressed one major complaint about the ribbon — that it wasn’t customizable — and made it possible in Office 2010 for end-users to organize the ribbon as freely as they did their legacy toolbars. I’m irked Microsoft didn’t make this possible with the ribbon from the start, but at least it’s there now.

Finally, the ribbon is now implemented consistently in Office 2010. Whereas Outlook 2007 displayed the ribbon only when editing messages, Outlook 2010 uses the ribbon throughout. (The rest of Outlook has also been streamlined a great deal; the thicket of settings and submenus has been pruned down a bit and made easier to traverse.) One feature that would be hugely useful is a type-to-find function for the ribbon; there is an add-in that accomplishes this, but having it as a native feature would be great.

Aside from the interface changes, Office 2007’s other biggest alteration was a new XML-based document format. Office 2010 keeps the new format but expands backward- and cross-compatibility, as well as native handling of OpenDocument Format (ODF) documents — the .odt, .ods, and .odp formats used by OpenOffice.org. When you open a legacy Word .doc or .rtf file, for instance, the legend “[Compatibility Mode]” appears in the window title. This means any functions not native to that document format are disabled, so edits to the document can be reopened without problems in earlier versions of Office.

Note that ODF documents don’t trigger compatibility mode, since Office 2010 claims to have a high degree of compatibility between the two. The problem is “high degree” doesn’t always mean perfect compatibility. If you highlight a passage in an ODF document while in Word 2010, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice recognize the highlighting. But if you highlight in OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, Word 2010 interprets the highlighting as merely a background color assignment for the selected text.

Exporting to HTML is, sadly, still messy; Word has never been good at exporting simple HTML that preserves only basic markup. Also, exporting to PDF is available natively, but the range of options in Word’s PDF export module is very narrow compared to that of OpenOffice.org.

Many other little changes throughout Office 2010 ease daily work. I particularly like the way the “find” function works in Word now, where all the results in a given document are shown in a navigation pane. This makes it far easier to find that one occurrence of a phrase you’re looking for. Excel has some nifty new ways to represent and manipulate data: Sparklines, little in-cell charts that usefully display at-a-glance visualizations of data; and data slicers, multiple-choice selectors that help widen or narrow the scope of the data you’re looking at. PowerPoint lets you broadcast a presentation across the Web (via Microsoft’s PowerPoint Broadcast Service, the use of which comes free with a PowerPoint license) or save a presentation as a video.

One last feature is worth mentioning as a possible future direction for all products in this vein. Office users who also have a SharePoint server can now collaborate in real time on Word, PowerPoint, or Excel documents. Unfortunately, SharePoint is way out of the reach of most casual users. But given how many professional-level features in software generally have percolated down to the end-user level, I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft eventually adds real-time collaboration, perhaps through Windows Live Mesh, as a standard feature.

Among the many new touches in Office 2010 is a much more useful document-search function, which shows results in a separate pane.

Among the many new touches in Office 2010 is a much more useful document-search function, which shows results in a separate pane.

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13 features that make each Web browser unique

Many cynical users assume Web browsers do little more than dutifully render HTML. The content is the most important part, they say, so it makes little difference which browser you use.

 

 


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This may be true for basic tasks, but for all their similarities, browsers differ in subtle and significant ways, thanks to the hard work of vendors looking to establish any edge that might attract more users to their stack of code. There are even some features that make each browser unique, and in the technology world, unique functionality often points the way forward.

[ Find out how to hack your browser in 7 easy steps | Also on InfoWorld: “HTML5 in the browser: Canvas, video, audio, and graphics” | “HTML5 in the browser: Local data storage | “HTML5 in the browser: HTML5 data communications” | “HTML5 in the browser: HTML5 forms” | “HTML in the browser: Geolocation, JavaScript, and HTML5 extras” ]

To get a better sense of the evolution of today’s browsers, we compiled the following list of promising features unique to one browser. Don’t think this was an easy task; many of the most important and competitive areas are hard to pin down. For instance, all browsers tap the power of multiple cores and make use of the video card, but each approaches this territory in a slightly different way.

Also note that while some of these features are found on only one browser, many can be imitated on other browsers by installing extra code. Some of these extensions even allow you to change the appearance of a browser so that it looks like another — you get the guts of one and the face of the other.

Given the pace of browser updates these days, don’t be surprised to find the best of the bunch being copied by competitors soon. After all, yesterday’s browser bells and whistles are today’s must-have features. Grab quickly.

Chrome: SPDY
When the https: protocol was designed, Web pages consisted of text and a few images. Today’s Web pages come packed with dozens of style sheets, JavaScript files, and an untold number of images. https: forces browsers to request each item individually, adding to the overhead.

Enter SPDY, an entirely new protocol Google has created to fight this sluggishness. Not many websites speak SPDY yet, but Google claims those that do can deliver their information about twice as quickly. Chrome is the only browser currently working with SPDY-enabled websites, many of which happen to sit in Google server farms.

Firefox: Deep extensions
All of the major browsers have plug-in architectures, but only Firefox offers a deep, sophisticated API. While other browsers allow you to write plug-ins in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, essentially creating a Web page that wraps around the Web page, Firefox goes one level deeper, giving you access to an API that allows you to build full desktop applications out of browser parts. This is largely an accident of history because Firefox was one of the first with extensions, and the other browsers that came along afterward decided the world didn’t need these extra features.

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About Microsoft 70-290 Exam

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70-290 Examination is the other name for the Microsoft certification exam MCDBA – Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment. The MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator) on Windows Server 2003 credential (or 70-290 exams) is meant for IT professionals employed in usually complex computing environment of medium and large businesses.

 


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To be free for taking part in this examination, you will need at least 6 to 12 months of experience in managing network and client operating systems in environments having the following features.

– Network resources and services like intranet, messaging facilities, file and print proxy server, database, firewall, Internet, client computer management and remote access.
– Three and more physical addresses.
– Connectivity necessities like the need to link corporate networks to the web & individual users and branch offices in remote locations to their corporate network.
– 250 to 5,000 users and more.
– Three or more than three domain controllers.

The 70-290 tests evaluate the aptitude of the candidates to run and sustain a Windows Server 2003 environment. If you are preparing for the 70-290 exams, you can try making use of 70-290 Test Questions and 70-290 Practice Exams available on the internet. You can also find a lot of free demos for the 70-290 exams (MCDBA – Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks) on the internet. You can also visit microsoft.com for more information on this examination.

These sample exams that arrive with a comprehensive Questions and Answers collection, are good enough to aid you to pass the exam without difficulty without the required for extra study materials or having to take part in pricey preparation classes. Also, transitory the exam in the first effort itself saves a lot of time and stress.

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Microsoft Q3 2011 by the numbers: Record $16.43B, Windows revenue declines

Today, after the closing bell, Microsoft answered an oft-asked question: What would the quarter be with no new major products in the pipeline? Would Windows 7 and Windows Server R2 (released October 2009) and Office 2010 (released May 2010) provide enough sales tailwinds?

For fiscal 2011 third quarter, ended March 31, Microsoft’s revenue rose 13 percent to $16.43 billion, year over year. Operating income: $5.71 billion, or 10 percent increase. Net income rose 31 percent to $5.23 billion, or 61 cents a share. Earnings per share rose by 36 percent year over year.

 

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Twenty-seven months ago, Microsoft stopped providing Wall Street analysts with quarterly and yearly guidance, in a move that is highly unusual for so large and so successful a public company. Microsoft’s refusal to give guidance creates unnecessary negative perceptions about its performance. As such, Wall Street analysts had to rely solely on their wits to call the quarter (again). Average consensus was $16.1 billion revenue and 56 cents earnings per share. Revenue estimates ranged from $15.83 billion to $17.17 billion, with estimated year-over-year growth of 11.7 percent. So Microsoft topped the Street.

“We delivered strong third quarter revenue from our business customers, driven by outstanding performance from Windows Server, SQL database, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync and increasingly our cloud services,” Microsoft COO Kevin Turner said in a statement. “Office had another huge quarter, again exceeding everyone’s expectations, and the addition of Office 365 will make our cloud productivity solutions even more compelling.”

The PC Shipments Quandary

For the second quarter in a row PC shipments hung like a shadow over Microsoft results. Fifteen days ago, Gartner and IDC reported weaker-than-expected demand during first calendar quarter, which coincides with Microsoft’s third fiscal quarter. Globally, PC shipments fell 3.2 percent year over year during first quarter, according to IDC, while Gartner put the decline at a less anemic 1.1 percent. Gartner had predicted 3 percent growth, while IDC expected 1.5 percent growth. Manufacturers shipped 84.3 million PCs in the quarter, according to Gartner, and 80.6 million by IDC’s estimate.

The reasons for the declines are worse for Windows PC manufacturers, which have played a fierce game of lowering prices. The gambit’s effectiveness is over. “Weak demand for consumer PCs was the biggest inhibitor of growth,” Mikako Kitagawa, Gartner principal analyst, said in a statement. “Low prices for consumer PCs, which had long stimulated growth, no longer attracted buyers.

“Instead, consumers turned their attention to media tablets and other consumer electronics. With the launch of the iPad 2 in February, more consumers either switched to buying an alternative device, or simply held back from buying PCs. We’re investigating whether this trend is likely to have a long-term effect on the PC market.”

The problem isn’t so much that tablets are replacing PCs as displacing some of their functions. People who might otherwise buy a new PC are getting other devices instead. According to a recent AdMob survey of tablet owners, seven out of 10 use their PC less. Nearly 30 percent of tablet owners use the device as their primary PC.

But while the consumer market goes gaga over tablets, businesses have been down to the business of upgrading aging Windows XP PCs. When Windows 7 launched in autumn 2009, about 80 percent of the install base was still on XP. The lengthy, and heady, transition has been good for Microsoft, which last week revealed 350 Windows 7 license sales during the operating system’s first 18 months of marketability. Yesterday, Gartner revealed that Windows accounts for 78.6 percent of all desktop and server OS revenues.

However, even with businesses continuing Windows 7 upgrades, revenue for the Windows & Windows Live division fell 4 percent year over year.

Q3 2011 Revenue by Division

* Windows & Windows Live: $4.445 billion, down from $4.650 billion a year earlier.
* Server & Tools: $4.104 billion, up from $3.706 billion a year earlier.
* Business: $5.252 billion, up from $4.341 billion a year earlier.
* Online Services Business: $648 million, up from $566 million a year earlier.
* Entertainment & Devices: $1.935 billion, up from $1.21 billion a year earlier.

The Mobile Conundrum

Microsoft’s most immediate, long-term competitive challenge remains mobile, where upstarts like Apple and Google body slammed Windows Mobile during 2009-10. There is the aforementioned competition from iPad, too. Apple shipped 4.69 million tablets during calendar Q1 for about 19.5 million total for the first four quarters of sales. Apple’s tablet generated nearly $12.4 billion in new revenue during the first 11 months of availability. Mobile devices running Apple’s iOS generated $43.79 billion during calendar 2010, or about 57 percent of Apple revenues.

By most every estimate, mobiles are the future of computing, something iPad’s negative impact on PC sales shows. Mobile applications are set to generate enormous revenues that may soon begin to cannibalize PC applications. Gartner predicts $15 billion revenue generated by mobile apps this year, up nearly three times from 2010.

But Microsoft isn’t rudderless in the cloud-conncted device seas. During the quarter, Microsoft and Nokia announced a definitive, non-exclusive agreement for Windows Phone 7. Nokia plans to ship Windows Phone as its primary operating system, starting in 2012. Nokia and Microsoft signed the deal — it’s official now — one week ago. Yesterday, the axe fell at Nokia: Symbian is being outsourced to Accenture and 7,000 Nokia employees will be transferred or sacked. Gartner and IDC both predict that the deal will propel Windows Phone to second in smartphone market share, behind Android, by 2015. Meanwhile, Microsoft plans Windows 7.5, codename “Mango,” for release before the holidays.

As for tablets, Microsoft is working on a new version of Windows for ARM processors. There categorization gets messy. Gartner and IDC classify Android, BlackBerry and iOS slates as “media tablets.” While tablets running Windows count as PCs. This has caused some confusion among bloggers and journalists about Microsoft having no tablet strategy.

I contend that Microsoft could still be a major player in the cloud-connected device market even without a tablet or tablet operating system, from back-end hosted applications and Azure.

Q3 2011 Income by Division

* Windows & Windows Live: $2.764 billion, down from $3.073 billion a year earlier.
* Server & Tools: $1.419 billion, up from $1.27 billion a year earlier.
* Business: $3.165 billion, up from $2.542 billion a year earlier.
* Online Services Business: Loss of $726 million, up from $709 million loss a year earlier.
* Entertainment & Devices: $225 million, up $150 million a year earlier.

Breakdown by Division

Microsoft reports revenue and earnings results for five divisons: Windows & Windows Live, Server & Tools, Business, Online Services and Entertainment & Devices.

Windows & Windows Live. Weaker than-expected PC demand hurt the division during fiscal third quarter, with revenue falling 4 percent year over year. Profits declined, too (see below). While Microsoft reported business PC sales up 9 percent year over year, consumer sales fell 8 percent. Netbook sales plummeted 40 percent, which is mixed blessing. According to analysts, many potential netbook buyers are choosing tablets, with major benefit going to Apple — that’s the bad. The good: Netbooks generally ship with lower-margin Windows versions, such as Starter Edition. The shift in mix to “Premium” Windows versions is better for Microsoft.

Overall, Microsoft said that global PC sales declined 2 percent year over year, which is in line with aforementioned analyst data. OEM revenue fell by 3 percent, which is to be expected given the macro-PC economics. Enterprise Windows 7 deployments doubled over six months, Microsoft Peter Klein said during Microsoft’s earnings conference call today.

Server & Tools. Revenue rose about 11 percent year over year. The division is insulated against economic maladies, because about 50 percent of revenues come from contractual volume-licensing agreements; annuity revenue grew by 11 percent year over year. Additionally, enterprise services revenue grew by 12 percent, or $90 million.

“Product revenue increased $308 million or 10%, driven primarily by growth in Windows Server, SQL Server, and Enterprise Client Access License (“CAL”) Suites, reflecting continued adoption of Windows platform applications,” according to Microsoft financial statements.

Business. The division was the quarter’s big overall performer, with revenue up 21 percent year over year. Business non-annuity revenue grew by 28 percent, which isn’t ideal. Microsoft benefits more when businesses buy annuity contracts, which revenue grew by just 5 percent. Consumer revenue rose 26 percent, or $220 million, surprising considering Microsoft’s cited attach rate to PCs, which sales were down for the quarter.

Starting with the 2003 release cycle, Microsoft repositioned Office as the front end to the larger stack of server applications. During fiscal 2011, Microsoft has started to reap substantial sales from the strategy. Klein described Office 2010 as the fastest-growing version of the suite — deployments are five times Office 2007. But this isn’t happening in a vacuum. Enterprises are “purchasing our entire productivity suite platform,” he said. Klein’s comment puts context behind Turner’s canned statement about server software.

It’s my assessment that fiscal 2011 marks a turning point for Microsoft’s two cash cow products — the ascension of Office as the stronger product and one with greater sales longevity. Some of that relates to the aforementioned competition from cloud-connected devices but also the success of the Office-as-front-end to back-end business processes running Microsoft server software.

Like, Server & Tools, contractual volume-licensing agreements are high — 60 percent, which directly derives from the Office-to-server applications stack strategy. This largely insulates the division from slowdowns in the PC market. By comparison, only about 20 percent of Windows sales come from contractual licenses. Most customers by the operating system with new PCs.

Online Services Business. Search and display ads drove up online advertising revenue by 17 percent — $84 million to $586 million. Despite revenue gains, the division’s losses increased from fiscal Q3 2010.

Entertainment & Devices. The division’s revenue increased a whopping 60 percent year over year. Microsoft shipped 2.3 million Kinects during the quarter days, adding to the 8 million units from the sequential launch quarter. Xbox console sales rose 79 percent — that’s 2.7 million units. “Xbox 360 platform revenue grew $712 million or 69 percent, led by sales of Kinect sensors, increased volumes of Xbox 360 consoles, and higher Xbox Live revenues,” according to Microsoft financial statements.

Regarding Windows Phone, Microsoft claims 90 percent customer satisfaction. However, the company didn’t release sales figures.

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Understanding Microsoft MCITP Certified

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Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) is one of the most popular certifications awarded by Microsoft. This certification will help you demonstrate your range of expertise, practical skills, and a thorough knowledge of Microsoft technologies. The Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) credential endorses the knowledge and skills of an IT professional with respect to performing a given job role including those like database administrator or enterprise messaging administrator. One of the most distinguishing features of this certification process is that it is built by Microsoft on the technical proficiency assessed by the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications. This fact will enable you get one or more MCTS certifications as you progress on your way to securing an MCITP credential.

 


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MCITP certification attests that the candidates have the essential set of skills to deploy, build, optimize, design various applications operating technologies with respect to a particular job role and that they are capable of designing and making a number of technology decisions crucial to accomplish successful technology implementation projects.

While the Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) credential enables IT professionals with a more focused and simpler framework to display their technical and professional skills, some reputed MCITP 70-642 certification training programs available on the net enables the candidates to systematically acquire the required knowledge and skills needed to make their cherished IT dreams come alive and besides with no trouble securing a great paying job in the purview of the IT industry.

One of the most significant aspects that you need to note regarding this certification is that it also highlights your exclusive field of expertise as there are about twelve concentrations available within this one certification. This will help you distinguish yourself among other IT professionals by possessing the up-to-date skills and surpassing job-role capabilities to effectively work with a comprehensive set of Microsoft technologies.

While choose the right site for getting trained for this certification, always look for programs that are offered by certified instructors. This will help you with a quality education necessary to enhance your IT career. One of the greatest advantages of securing this certification is that you are actually letting the employers know that you are more capable than others to get the job done right.

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Windows Thin PC: because budgets are shifting to tablets

When Microsoft announced the release of Windows 7 SP1 in early February, the company also released some information about a couple of upcoming products: Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) and Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM.)

 

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Monday, Microsoft shared the first round of information about WinTPC, how it will fit in with volume licensing somewhere between Windows Virtual Desktop access (VDA), and Microsoft Software Assurance (SA), and why it is coming out in the first place.

“Depending on the device and the capability, a thin client could cost as much as a low-end PC,” Microsoft’s Karri Alexion-Tiernan said on Monday. “Many of you told us that budgets for buying new devices have been reduced, and that you prefer allocating funds towards devices that offer more functionality and flexibility, such as new Windows 7 PCs, tablets, or slates.”

So WinTPC will help businesses turn their aging PCs into thin clients without incurring the VDA licensing charge for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) typically ascribed to Windows Embedded thin clients or old PCs running Windows Fundamentals.

WinTPC instead will be a benefit of the Software Assurance (SA) program, and businesses enrolled in the program will be able to turn their hardware into WinTPC clients with no additional VDA licensing costs. Businesses that don’t have SA on their Windows PCs will still be able to purchase a VDA license for each device to get access to WinTPC, but Microsoft hasn’t outlined how much this will cost yet.

Microsoft will be disclosing more information about WinTPC at an event this Thursday March 10, and we’ll be looking for more information at that time.

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Get to Know about Microsoft MCSE Certification

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Big companies of the IT industry have these days started coming up with various kinds of certification examination for students and other budding professionals. These certifications are aimed at providing the necessary qualifications to people, with adequate preparation and skill development, so that they are capable of holding competitive job profiles. Microsoft, one of the leading names of the IT industry also has its own teaching and examination department, which has various certifications on offer. One of the most common Microsoft certifications which are sought by many is the MCSE certification.

 


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MCSE fundamentally stands for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Post the attainment of this certification, a candidate is talented to display expertise in designing and implementing infrastructure Microsoft Windows 2000 server. Candidates setting up to go in for this certification should at least have one to two years of experience designing, configuring, and installing and troubleshooting network systems. The MCSE certification is quite tough to achieve, and is meant only for the solemn minded. This is the only cause why unlike many other kinds of certifications, this one demands some experience in the candidate side view.

After captivating the path of a basic MCSE certification, you have the option to choose a kind of specialization. This would detectably depend on your interests as well as your career goals and targets. The good thing in taking the MCSE certification from Microsoft is that you will have a reputed and respected name on your CV, which will give you an edge over the others when you look for a spirited job profile.

Information of all kinds such as examination course outline, course material, exam schedules, marking scheme etc. is all regularly updated on the Microsoft website. One can always find the applicable information there, along with a list of FAQs too.