IE11 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses

Body: ​ Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is available worldwide in 95 languages for download today. We will begin automatically updating Windows 7 customers to IE11 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE11 Developer and Release Previews. With this final release, IE11 brings the same leading standards support–with improved performance, security, privacy, and reliability that consumers enjoy on Windows 8.1—to Windows 7 customers. And with Windows 8.1,…

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November 2013 Update for the Lync 2013 Desktop Client

Body: ​ Nikolay Muravlyannikov, Lync Program Manager IIDebbie Arbeeny, Lync Program Manager IITim Woo, Lync Technical Product Manager In the November Update for the Lync 2013 Desktop Client, the Lync team is pleased to introduce several new features to enhance your Lync experience. These were created based on the feedback we received from our partners and customers through Microsoft field personnel and Technology Adoption Programs (TAP). So please continue to provide feedback to your…

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BIG NEWS ABOUT YAMMER AND 365

Body: ​Microsoft Updates Office 365, Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps, Adds Yammer To All Enterprise Versions It’s been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over 2 million consumers now subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium (the Office 365 “family pack” with five licenses) and 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using it in some form. This,…

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DIRSYNC can now be deployed on a domain controller

Body: ​ The latest release of DIRSYNC (version 6553.0002) can now be installed on a domain controller according to the release notes at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18429.windows-azure-active-directory-sync-tool-version-release-history.aspx   The details on how to go about this are located at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/17370.best-practices-for-deploying-and-managing-the-windows-azure-active-directory-sync-tool.aspx#A11 DIRSYNC is a stand alone application that copies information from the local active directory (user names, passwords etc) and copies them to Office 365, saving you from having to create these attributes in…

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The Cloud OS!

Body:    Over the last year, Microsoft have made some incredible developments with Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and the new release of Windows Intune – and I am incredibly excited for these products to reach general availability today! Leading up to this, Microsoft team has worked incredibly hard to share as much information as possible about this new platform and its vast array of capabilities – and…

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11 Razões para Experimentar o Office 365

Body: O Office 365 é muito mais do que uma coleção de programas de software para utilização profissional. O Office 365 inclui todas as funcionalidades que a sua empresa precisa para criar uma infraestrutura de TI profissional. Eis onze boas razões para experimentar o Office 365: Disponível em qualquer dispositivo: Os empregados têm acesso ao Office Web Apps quer estejam num PC de casa, num PC do escritório, num smartphone…

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Chegada do Windows 8.1

Body: ​ ​ ​     ​ Chegada do Windows 8.1 O Windows 8.1 chega a 18 de Outubro a Portugal! Novidades como a pesquisa única, o novo Internet Explorer e navegação lado-a-lado vão acelerar as tarefas na sua empresa. Tudo isto cada vez mais orientado para o toque e para a cloud, a pensar na sua produtividade. Faça já o download do preview!   ​   Windows 8.1: Funcionalidades…

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Moving Toward the Private Cloud

Body: ​  The private cloud is emerging as an attractive alternative to the public cloud for many IT organizations. Although the public cloud puts the control and cost in the hands of the cloud hosting provider, that’s not the case with the private cloud. The private cloud puts the control and costs of the infrastructure into the hands of your organization. All the concerns about infrastructure availability and data security…

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Microsoft Defines the Cloud with One Word – Value

Body:    The modern workforce isn’t just better connected and more mobile than ever before, it’s also more discerning (and demanding) about the hardware and software used on the job. While company leaders around the world are celebrating the increased productivity and accessibility of their workforce, the exponential increase in devices and platforms that the workforce wants to use can stretch a company’s infrastructure (and IT department!) to its limit.”…

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