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Leaked Shots Reveal Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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 ...

Obviously, Smartphone Shipments Exceeded PC Sales in 2011

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.

Q: How can I tell which virtual machines are using Virtual Machine Device Queues with Hyper-V?

By John Savill, 02/06/2012

Here's a Windows PowerShell script that tells you if the port is using VMDq.

Q: Can I use Windows Intune in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environment?

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.

Windows Weekly 246: Helsinki Syndrome

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 ...

8 Days a Week: Phone 8, Orb, and Office 15

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 ...

Windows 8 Secrets: What Windows Phone 8 Tells Us About Windows 8

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 ...

WinInfo Short Takes, February 3, 2012

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 ...

Windows Phone 8 Preview

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.

CEO: ARM-Based Windows 8 Devices Will Be Superior

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 ...

SQL Server High Availability for Developers, Part 2

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 ...

Q: What are Virtual Machine Device Queues?

By John Savill, 02/02/2012

With VMDq, the network adapter can create multiple separate queues, distributing the processing load.

Q: Where can I get Microsoft OneNote for Apple iPad?

By John Savill, 02/02/2012

Hurray! OneNote is on iPad!

Q: After what events will a vSphere Storage DRS imbalance calculation be automatically invoked?

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.

Q: How often is vSphere Storage DRS's imbalance calculation invoked?

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.

What The Tech 103: You're Not Steve Jobs

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 ...

Virtualization Trends in 2012

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.

Microsoft Aggressively Courting Concerned Google Users

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.

6 Lessons for Developing a Business Connectivity Services Solution

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 ...