Month: April 2013

Microsoft to developers: We’ve built it, they will come

At Microsoft’s developer conference, Steve Ballmer talked ecosystem, not tech. It’s day one of Microsoft BUILD, the company’s major developer conference. Traditionally at these things (this is only the second BUILD, but before it there were almost 20 years of PC conferences that served a similar purpose) the keynote presentations are developer-heavy. The speakers tend […]

NASA launches smartphone satellites — downloading images may be an issue

However, NASA is not the first group to launch Nexus Ones into space. NASA on Monday launched three 2010-vintage Nexus One smartphones into orbit via an Antares rocket, saying that the Android devices would be among the cheapest satellites ever devised. The devices are part of the administration’s PhoneSat program, which is designed to ascertain […]

Windows 8 Update: transition from Android to Windows Phone made easier

Windows 8 Update: transition from Android to Windows Phone made easier Also, iPad keyboard/cover to rival Surface, 8-inch Windows 8 tablet UPDATE: Microsoft has delayed availability of its Switch to Windows Phone app until sometime next week. Microsoft figures customers will be more likely to switch from Android smartphones to Windows 8 phones if it […]

70-451 – PRO: Designing Database Solutions and Data Access Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008

QUESTION 1 You work as a database developer at Certkingdom.com. You need to plan a SQL Server 2008 database that will be accessed by mobile users. The database must be able to profile data before importing it from heterogeneous data sources, including Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and CSV […]

70-236 Microsoft Exchange Server 2012

Contents Preface xvii Foreword xxi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 A decade and counting of Exchange deployments 1 1.1.1 The way we were 2 1.1.2 The protocol wars 2 1.1.3 Ever increasing mobility 4 1.1.4 Third-party products and management 6 1.1.5 Some interesting projects 6 1.1.6 The not so good points 7 1.1.7 Exchange’s connection with […]

70-483 Q&A / Study Guide / Videos / Testing Engine

QUESTION 1 You work as a senior developer at Certkingdom.com. The Certkingdom.com network consists of a single domain named Certkingdom.com. You are running a training exercise for junior developers. You are currently discussing the use of the Queue <T> collection type. Which of the following is TRUE with regards to the Queue <T>collection type? A. […]

70-483 Q&A / Study Guide / Testing Engine / Videos

QUESTION 1 You work as a senior developer at Certkingdom.com. The Certkingdom.com network consists of a single domain named Certkingdom.com. You are running a training exercise for junior developers. You are currently discussing the use of the Queue <T> collection type. Which of the following is TRUE with regards to the Queue <T>collection type? A. […]

70-417 Q&A / Study Guide / Testing Engine / Videos

QUESTION 1 You work as a Network Administrator at Certkingdom.com. The network contains a single Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named Certkingdom.com. The network includes servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2012. All servers in the network have Windows Remote Management (WinRM) enabled. You use […]

Amazon’s biggest competitor in the cloud: Salesforce.com?

Amazon’s biggest competitor in the cloud: Salesforce.com? Amazon and Salesforce are each pioneering companies in cloud computing, but are they competitors? Who is Amazon’s biggest competitor in the cloud? The go-to answer for many may be companies like Rackspace with its OpenStack platform, perhaps Google with its Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, VMware or one of […]

For Microsoft, going private may not be such a bad idea

What does Microsoft have left to gain by being public when the stock is at a standstill? Should Microsoft go private? Don’t dismiss the question, it’s a valid one, even if it would be extraordinarily difficult. The stocks of most of the old guard of the tech industry have been stagnant for years, even though […]

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