Dear Microsoft, please listen to the people who designed your new Windows 8 logo

I think it’s fair to say opinion is still divided on the new Windows 8 logo, or at least Microsoft’s version. As I briefly noted in an update to my original post , it turns out the logo the prestigious design studio Pentagram proposed to Microsoft is actually different enough that I think it warrants some extra attention. As they say, design is in the details

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Dear Microsoft, please listen to the people who designed your new Windows 8 logo

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Plan and Deliver Windows PC Management Using Packt’s Latest Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0 Book and e-book

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Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0: Quickstart Administration – book available

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Packt Publishing is pleased to announce Microsoft Windows Intune 2.0: Quickstart Administration book and e-book, a practical tutorial that aims at understanding how to plan, set up and maintain Windows Intune in order to manage one or more business PCs.

Written by David Overton, this book will enable the reader to install and configure Windows Intune, understand the impact and resolution of multiple conflicting policies, and install and manage Microsoft and non-Microsoft updates for computers.

This guide helps administrators diagnose serious system issues with the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset, deal with alerts and remotely connect to a user’s computer to fix issues and offer assistance, right through a reboot if required. Key features of this book include allowing users to easily migrate from Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7 without losing files and settings.

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So about that Windows 8 logo…

So there you have it, the Windows 8 logo . I was wrong about it being a fake. It’s very much a real, thing.

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So about that Windows 8 logo…

Cats & dogs: Microsoft’s charity dog calendar

Where there’s cats, there’s also dogs. Having wrote about the Cats of Microsoft Calendar , I feel morally obligated to give equal representation to canine friends and their Dogs of Microsoft calendar.

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Cats & dogs: Microsoft’s charity dog calendar

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Photo EXIF evidence points to Windows on ARM before iPad release

Turns out Microsoft has been working on Windows on ARM for a while, quite a while in fact. In Steven Sinofsky’s thesis of Windows on ARM (generically dubbed WOA) published on the Building Windows 8 blog today, two photographs of an early development build of Windows running on prototype ARM hardware dates the effort to as far back as 22 January 2010, almost a week before iPad’s announcement on the 27th

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Photo EXIF evidence points to Windows on ARM before iPad release

Microsoft Surface 2 begin deliveries: Samsung SUR40 unboxing and first boot

Two months after Microsoft started accepting pre-orders for the 2nd-generation Microsoft Surface Samsung SUR40 , it has begun making its way into the open arms of developers like the one above for The Robert Gordon University in Scotland.

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Microsoft Surface 2 begin deliveries: Samsung SUR40 unboxing and first boot

Microsoft Surface 2 begin deliveries: Samsung SUR40 unboxing and first boot

Two months after Microsoft started accepting pre-orders for the 2nd-generation Microsoft Surface Samsung SUR40 , it has begun making its way into the open arms of developers like the one above for The Robert Gordon University in Scotland. With the device costing around $9000, those of us who don’t have that kind of money to spare for a 40-inch iPad will just have to experience the thrills through their unboxing video

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The hunt for the perfect computer headset

Before the last couple of weeks, it’s hard to believe I used to hate headsets. Since then, my desk has been covered from anything between three and six headsets at a time supplied by the good folks at Sennheiser and Plantronics. Comparing six different headsets at a time wasn’t easy and I owe many thanks to those who sat with me on Skype while I swapped from headset to headset, plugging and unplugging any one of the six identical USB plugs.

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The hunt for the perfect computer headset