By Paul Thurrott, 02/06/2012
While we eagerly await the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which is still expected to come sometime this month, two blogs have leaked numerous screenshots of what appears to be the ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/06/2012
Market researchers from Canalys announced that overall sales of smartphone handsets exceeded those of PCs in calendar year 2011.
By John Savill, 02/06/2012
Here's a Windows PowerShell script that tells you if the port is using VMDq.
By John Savill, 02/06/2012
Windows Intune is supported in virtual environments, but you can’t run it on any server OS, so you can’t install it on Hyper-V.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/05/2012
In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly, Iyaz Akhtar, Mary Jo and I discuss the Office 15 Technical Preview, Windows 8 on ARM rumors, Windows Phone 8, AWS on Windows Phone, a ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/05/2012
This week in Windows 8: A few bland official blog posts, but some explosive news around Windows Phone 8, the Start orb, and Office 15. Plus, yes, we're writing about Windows Phone ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/04/2012
While everyone is understandably excited about the recent Windows Phone 8 leak, this revelation also tells us some things we didn't know about Windows 8. So let's look at what ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/03/2012
An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including a Windows Phone 8 leak, preordering a Nokia Lumia 900, Microsoft marketing layoffs, Facebook's IPO numbers, an uproar ...
By John Savill, 02/03/2012
How to enable VMDq for Hyper-V.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/02/2012
Thanks to a recent leak which has revealed some interesting information about the next major Windows Phone version, I can now publicly discuss Windows Phone 8 for the first time.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/02/2012
ARM CEO Warren East said that ARM-based tablets and other devices based on Windows 8 were superior both to Android tablets and to Windows 8 devices that will run on Intel-type ...
By Michael K. Campbell, 02/02/2012
In part two of this article series on high availability, Michael K. Campbell outlines the benefits and negative implications of log shipping as a means for achieving high ...
By John Savill, 02/02/2012
With VMDq, the network adapter can create multiple separate queues, distributing the processing load.
By John Savill, 02/02/2012
Hurray! OneNote is on iPad!
By Greg Shields, 02/01/2012
VMware vSphere 5's Storage DRS load balancing runs by default every eight hours and is also triggered by these events.
By Greg Shields, 02/01/2012
By default, the I/O load-balancing algorithm used by Storage DRS is invoked every eight hours; VMware recommends against changing this default.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/01/2012
This week on What The Tech: Andrew and Paul discuss the situation with MegaUpload. Why did the FBI target them? Should similar services be worried? Andrew brings up recent Xbox ...
By Michael Otey, 02/01/2012
For virtualization trends in 2012, expect continued server consolidation, more VDI and application virtualization, and support for the dynamic datacenter and private cloud.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/01/2012
Microsoft this week unveiled an initiative to attract Google users who are concerned about the online giant's growing data-collection policies.
By Ethan Wilansky, 02/01/2012
Building a complete BCS solution is no easy task, but tips from our experts can help. These 6 lessons are the results of in-the-trenches experience. Take them to heart and save ...