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Interview with Ben Armstrong at Ignite Australia 2017

Paul Schnackenburg interviewed Ben Armstrong, principal program manager on the Hyper-V team at Microsoft, talking about containers in Windows...
Windows 10 S – A Chromebook alternative?

Microsoft has finally announced a competitor to Chromebooks or devices that can run Chrome. Windows 10 S aims to...
Microsoft Ignite 2017 Australia

This article will look at the recent Ignite conference here on the Gold Coast of Australia and the different...
Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition – Get your head in the cloud

Microsoft Press released a new free eBook: Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition. If you read the...
Microsoft Azure for Amazon AWS cloud professionals

Keith Mayer and Gerald Ti (both Technical Evangelists at Microsoft) posted a great series of videos that introduce Microsoft...
New free eBook – Windows 10 IT Pro Essentials Support Secrets

Microsoft Press released a free new eBook, Windows 10 IT Pro Essentials Support Secrets.
Five new free eBooks from Microsoft Press

It's time for me to update our list of free admin eBooks. Five new eBooks made it into the...
Interview with Michael Niehaus about Windows 10 deployment

I interviewed Michael Niehaus, Director of Product Marketing at Microsoft, at Ignite Australia 2015 about Windows 10 deployment.
Did Microsoft’s public cloud just overtake Amazon AWS?

According to Wikibon, a community of business technology practitioners, Microsoft’s cloud (Azure + Office 365) overtook Amazon AWS in...
Windows 10 Enterprise vs. Windows 10 Pro

Windows 10 Enterprise comes with quite a few interesting features that Windows 10 Pro lacks. In this post, I...
How an MVP became a Mac

This is going to get embarrassing. Today, I received notice about my 8th Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award,...
Poll results: When will your organization upgrade to Windows 10?

The poll results are quite amazing. Only 11 percent of voters who responded are thinking of skipping Windows 10....
Poll: When will you upgrade to Windows 10?

You couldn’t have missed the news: Windows 10 is out. You probably also know that the upgrade from Windows...
Windows 10 update options – Is Windows 10 the last Windows version or not?

Numerous news sites comment on the freshly updated Windows lifecycle factsheet. Whereas most journalists focus on the differences to...
Windows Server 2003 support ends today – Have you been left behind too?

The support of Windows Server 2003 ends today (July 14). If you still have Windows 2003 machines in your...
Microsoft finally disconnects Nokia

I admit that I was wrong. When Nadella took over, I predicted that Microsoft will dump Nokia in less...
My top 5 takeaway lessons from Microsoft Ignite 2015

I was fortunate enough to attend the 2015 Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago, along with 23,000 of my closest...
Has the PC industry come to a complete standstill?

About three years ago, I bought a 15" laptop that weighs 1.5kg (3.3lb), has 8GB RAM and a 512GB...
Microsoft HoloLens: Is this the first real post PC device?

Microsoft HoloLens, the world’s first holographic computing platform, is certainly the most exciting innovation in IT since the introduction...