From the monthly archives:

April 2012

Data Driven Decisions for Startups

April 29, 2012

Editor’s note: Uzi Shmilovici is the CEO and founder of Future Simple, the company behind Base CRM. “If you don’t have any facts, we’ll just use my opinion.” – Jim Barksdale (former president and CEO of Netscape). Startups are the sum of the decisions made by the people who run them. Should you raise money? Who should [...]

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The dawn of Haiku OS

April 28, 2012

“Ultimately, Haiku represents a different way of viewing your personal computer. If you think that software shouldn’t be riddled with bugs and incompatibilities and inefficiencies, if you hate being forced to swap out your hardware and software every few years because ‘upgrades’ have rendered them obsolete, and if you find that the idea of using [...]

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The Wrap: Secrets of a No. 1 app, the minds behind Metro, 5 hot apps

April 28, 2012

This week’s story highlights are dedicated to the hardworking indie coders out there dreaming up and writing cool apps for my Windows Phone. You guys rock. Here’s some inspiration: What’s it take to make your app No. 1? Microsoft’s Chris Barrows kicked off a new App Hub series this week called “App Insights” that you [...]

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How large is my Exchange Offline Address Book (OAB)?

April 28, 2012

When we perform network bandwidth planning for Exchange deployments we always ask “what is the size of your OAB?” This is important since if you have a large OAB file it can severely affect the amount of network bandwidth that you require. One of the things that I noticed while creating and validating the Exchange [...]

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A tangled web…

April 27, 2012

The moment of infection, and the circumstances that lead to the introduction of malware to a system, are often not obvious. This short case study examines our observations and investigations into a particular example that illustrates a fairly typical method of compromise that is played out countless times each day​ all over the web. A [...]

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The Fantastic 12 of 2012: A Behind the Scenes View of Blazing Fast Performance

April 27, 2012

Last week we kicked off the Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes Blog Series, the first episode covering SQL Server AlwaysOn was just the beginning of this unique 12-part look into the SQL Server Engineering Team. Download The Fantastic 12 of SQL Server 2012 (PDF) to follow along with all the episodes and learn [...]

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How to use certificates to authenticate computers in workgroups or untrusted domains with Data Protection Manager

April 27, 2012

System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 supports protection of computers in workgroups and untrusted domains using local accounts and NTLM, however in scenarios where an organization does not allow creation of local accounts this solution does not work. System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) now allows you to use certificates to authenticate computers in [...]

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Gmail, now with 10 GB of storage (and counting)

April 27, 2012

Posted by Nicholas Behrens, Software Engineer Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re increasing everyone’s free storage in Gmail from 7.5 GB to 10 GB (and counting) to celebrate today’s launch of Google Drive. The increase will take effect over the next 24 hours. We hope you all enjoy the little bump! Gmail Blog

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Galaxy Nexus now on sale in Google Play

April 27, 2012

We started shipping Nexus phones more than two years ago to give you a pure Google experience and access to the latest Android updates. Today, we’ve started selling Galaxy Nexus (HSPA+) from a new Devices section in the Google Play web store, so you can quickly and easily purchase an unlocked version of the phone. [...]

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Updated Facebook Provider for Outlook Social Connector and Group Policy settings

April 26, 2012

This post describes an update to the Facebook provider for the Outlook Social Connector and the related policy settings that are available for Administrators. Outlook 2010 includes a feature called the Outlook Social Connector which can show social updates for the people your users email with, directly in Outlook. Earlier this year, the Outlook team [...]

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