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Laptops for the Casual Gamer

You don’t necessarily need an expensive gaming laptop play your favorite Flash-based or 2D games. We give you four that can keep you in the game without emptying your wallet. So you’re looking for a gaming laptop, but not to play hardcore games like Crysis or Civilization V. You’re steering toward more casual games like […]

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Now Available

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac is now available. For the first time, Office for Mac includes Outlook for Mac, as well as the usual products: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Messenger. There a few different price options for the program. Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Student versions with one license costs $119.99, and the same […]

Google Testing “Record Calls” Feature Within Gmail

Google is slowly unlocking a new feature for Gmail that allows users to record calls directly out of their inbox. That might sound a little strange at first, so bear with us. Within Gmail, it’s possible to link one’s Google Voice VOiP service to one’s Inbox by first enabling the company’s Chat service on the […]

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 […]

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