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Apple iCloud: i is for integrated

By tim, on June 8th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple has announced iCloud, smart cloud storage for Apple devices.

The iCloud will store documents, email, contacts and appointments, and synch the data to multiple devices including iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac or PC. You get 5GB free with more available to purchase. Books are synched so that your place is saved from one device

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Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret about Windows 8

By tim, on June 3rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

There is a long discussion over on the official Silverlight forum about Microsoft’s Windows 8 demo at D9 and what was said, and not said; and another over on Channel 9, Microsoft’s video-centric community site for developers.

At D9 Microsoft showed that Windows 8 has a dual personality. In one mode it has a touch-centric

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A pivotal moment for Microsoft as it attempts to escape its Windows legacy

By tim, on June 2nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Last year I wrote a piece for The Register on 25 years of Windows. I even ran up Windows 1.0 in a DOS box to have a look.

The surprising thing about Windows is not how much has changed in 25 years, but how little. The WIMP model (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) has stayed

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Cracks appear in Microsoft’s bundled installers for Visual Studio 2010 as I try ADFS

By tim, on May 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I am trying out Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), chasing the dream of single sign-on between on-premise Active Directory and the cloud.

Oddly, although ADFS has been around for a while, it feels more bleeding edge than it should. ADFS is critical to Microsoft’s cloud platform play, and it needs to build this stuff

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Microsoft releases IE10 preview, talks up native HTML5

By tim, on April 12th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released an early preview of Internet Explorer 10, which you can download now. It shows the company’s commitment – for the moment – to an energetic release cycle for its web browser.

Why use IE? Microsoft is pushing the notion that only IE is truly native on Windows:

IE10 continues on IE9’s

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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 install failures common?

By tim, on March 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

There are reports coming in of Windows 7 install failures causing problems for users. There will always be some failures, but normally there is an easy way to rollback; unfortunately SP1 is making machines unbootable in a number of cases:

I have about 10pc’s in my company. They all failed this morning after the service

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Server and Tools shine in Microsoft results – so why is Bob Muglia leaving?

By tim, on January 28th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft released quarterly results yesterday:

Quarter ending December 31 2010 vs quarter ending December 31 2009, $millions

Segment Revenue Change Profit Change Client (Windows + Live) 5054 -2139 3251 -2166 Server and Tools 4390 412 1776 312 Online 691 112 -543 -80 Business (Office) 5126 612 3965 1018 Entertainment and devices 3698 1317 679 314

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Fixing slow access to SharePoint mapped drives in Windows 7

By tim, on January 19th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve heard recently from a couple of people who found that accessing SharePoint folders via mapped drives in Windows Explorer had suddenly become very slow – even taking several minutes to open a folder. This is in Windows 7, but the same might (or might not) apply to other versions of Windows.

SharePoint folders in

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Talk of Windows 8 on an smartphone shows Microsoft’s mobile confusion

By tim, on January 18th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

During a conference call to discuss Intel’s latest financials, CEO Paul Otellini raised the possibility of putting the full Windows OS onto a smartphone, running a low power Intel SoC (System on Chip). The matter came up with Otellini was asked about the impact of Windows on ARM, announced at CES earlier this month:

The

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Microsoft WebMatrix released: a simple editor for ASP.NET Razor and more, but who is the target user?

By tim, on January 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released WebMatrix, a free tool for creating web sites for Microsoft’s web server. It uses the Web Platform Installer and installed smoothly on my Windows 7 64-bit box. What you get is a cleanly-designed tool which lets you start web sites from templates or from standard installs of popular applications including WordPress, Drupal

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