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Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-30142224718475688242019-09-30T00:06:00.001-07:002019-09-30T00:06:09.165-07:00Microsoft 70-461 Question Answer<b>DRAG DROP</b><br />
<b>You use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to develop a database that has two tables named Div1Cust and Div2Cust.</b><br />
<b>Each table has columns named DivisionID and CustomerId. None of the rows in Div1Cust exist in Div2Cust.</b><br />
<b>You need to write a query that meets the following requirements:</b><br />
<b>The rows in Div1Cust must be combined with the rows in Div2Cust.</b><br />
<b>The result set must have columns named Division and Customer.</b><br />
<b>Duplicates must be retained.</b><br />
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Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-2952189177625864032019-01-10T20:11:00.001-08:002019-06-11T23:54:32.197-07:00Microsoft 70-461 Question Answer<b>DRAG DROP<br />You use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to develop a database application.<br />You create a table by using the following definition:<br />CREATE TABLE Prices (<br />PriceId int IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,<br />ActualPrice NUMERIC(16,9),<br />PredictedPrice NUMERIC(16,9)<br />)<br />You need to create a computed column based on a user-defined function named udf_price_index. You also need to ensure that the column supports an index.<br />Which three Transact-SQL statements should you use? (To answer, move the appropriate SQL statements from the list of statements to the answer area and<br />arrange them in the correct order.)<br />Select and Place:</b><br />
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I do not need to spend much space on the merits of the United States v. Microsoft, the case on the extraterritoriality of the email search guarantees that the Supreme Court will decide this term, because Judge Lynch of the Second Circuit, in his concurring opinion in the court below, said almost everything he said.<br />
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This is a much closer case that Microsoft or its supporters particularly claim because all those who once litigated the Stored Communications Act ("SCA") understand that their orders operate more like citations than traditional search warrants. This supports the government's arguments, because the lower courts have imposed citations that order companies to present documents in their "possession, custody or control", even if they are stored in another country.<br />
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On the other hand, like Judge Lynch, I recognize that even if the Tribunal treats these orders as subpoenas, it could still fail against the United States. The rule that the Court has established in the past (which is free to change or abandon in this case) would seek the "focus" of the SCA, an outdated and notoriously complex statute. In fact, the Court would be more successful in seeking the "focus" of a pile of mulch. There is a high likelihood that, under this focus analysis, the United States will lose and, if so, Congress will have to respond to preserve the ability of law enforcement to access e-mail in many major criminal investigations.<br />
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I want to make two comments on the broader context of this case. First of all, it is important to highlight the technical design choices that Microsoft made and could have prevented that led directly to this turbulent international conflict. Second, Microsoft's actions can be read as a secondary declaration of independence from the rule of law, a statement that recruits us all as unwitting revolutionaries.<br />
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Like many others who have commented, what I think ultimately about this specific case revolves almost entirely on facts that the judiciary has so far ignored: the nationality and residence of the owner of the email account. If it is a suspicious US drug trafficker operating within the territorial limits of the United States, which is being investigated by the US authorities, using the email provided by a US corporation, then the fact that the owner clicked on a Check box when you created your account should not raise this case to the international incident level. On the other hand, if this case involves an Irish citizen, sitting in Ireland, who clicked on that checkbox honestly, then this becomes much more complicated and more important.<br />
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I understand why the courts have not insisted on knowing the answer to the question of nationality. The procedural position of this case - an appeal of a contempt judgment that results after a denial of an annulment motion - means that the proceedings are tentative, wrapped up in the necessary secrecy and without the participation of the person whose nationality and residence we want know, and who, after all, has not yet been accused of any crime, and may never be.<br />
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The Supreme Court or Congress could feel differently. Anyone could elaborate a new rule insisting that in cases like this, the parties would be forced to share their best assumptions about the country where the owner of an email account is located, perhaps as part of a multifactorial balance test that try to account for interests of international courtesy.<br />
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I hope this happens, as it will shed light on the fact that Microsoft intentionally designed its service in a way that allows users to decide where to store their records and led directly to this disaster.<br />
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In the debates on technological and political law, we tend too much to consider the current state of technology as fixed, static and not subject to debate by politics. It is just the product of an intimate and secret conversation between corporations and the invisible hand - pillow talk for the whole Chicago School. This attitude reflects, in part, the hard work of libertarians who continually intimidate the rest of us with the idea that we have to think that technology is "granted to" instead of "created by" ordinary human beings.<br />
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Microsoft could have taken some very small steps when it created its first data center outside of the United States that could have told us with much greater certainty the location of the target in this case. If it had, the company could have avoided what is correctly understood as a crisis of manufactured international relations. More importantly, instead of letting outlook.com users choose the data centers where they store their email messages, Microsoft could have answered that question by making a guess based on the user's IP address, the configuration of language and measured network latency. After all, the company continues to proclaim that its only goal was to reduce network latency. If that is true, why did not the company choose to place each user in the data center with the least network latency?<br />
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By not making this simple architectural choice, Microsoft made this case much more difficult than it could have been, even if that was not their intention. If Microsoft had designed outlook.com to hinder its location in one part of the world while storing communications in another, then a legal rule for access to e-mail could have been designed that would better balance the need to investigate crime while respecting the user. rights and international relations. Under such a rule, first, FBI agents would use a citation to learn from Microsoft the data center used to store a particular account. If this throws a response that the data was within the United States, I would suggest a search warrant. If it were answered that the data were in Europe, a mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT) request would be in order.<br />
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<i><b>Declare the independence of Microsoft's declaration of independence</b></i><br />
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There is another issue at play here. The corporate globalists of today are not like yesterday's. Oil tycoons and railroad magnates traded in atoms instead of bits and, as a result, were forced to pay attention to national borders and local rules. This does not mean that they always respected those rules, but at least they had to attend to them. Uber-for all its fundamentally corrupt practices-looks more like iron giants in this respect, fighting and trampling local rules wherever they expand. On the contrary, Microsoft (and Facebook and Google) circumvent the local rule and the rule of law in a much more subtle but equally destructive way: they act as if the global telecommunications network meant that the borders of the world simply do not apply to them , and design their services in ways that frustrate local oversight and transparency.<br />
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We know and can oppose what Uber is trying to do; It is more difficult to understand what bit providers do. If we do not start questioning the technological design choices of companies like Microsoft, as I tried to do in this blog post, they could get away with erasing the limits of our maps.<br />
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I think it's also useful to think about Microsoft's actions in this case in a different, even more pernicious, light. Microsoft's entire course of conduct - from setting up its remote data centers in a way that allows users to select where to place their data to sue the federal government for seeking an order to investigate a drug-related crime - could be considered a Tactic that is not about respecting the rules of Ireland or the United States or the rights of the Irish or the Americans. It is perhaps part of a much more cynical and pernicious movement to declare the independence of the "tired giant of flesh and steel", echoing the giant John Perry Barlow, who died the day I wrote these words. But the difference between Barlow and Microsoft is the person with the pen. Barlow wrote genuinely about a user's revolution against terrestrial states. That is something very different from being dragged into the revolution by benevolent corporate governors.<br />
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This seems more East India Company than Thomas Paine. Revolutions should not be declared by corporations, they should reflect the will of the people, in this case, the users. I am a user, like all of you, and I do not remember registering for the Microsoft revolution. I live in a (mainly) functional democracy; I choose representatives and pay taxes in part to ensure that my wishes are reflected in my society. For me, one thing I need to safeguard is a law enforcement agency with the power to investigate crimes and protect the rule of law. Microsoft also lives here, and could redesign its services to avoid thwarting local government and inflaming international conflict. Maybe Congress should force him to do it. But we, the users, we citizens, should not misinterpret who is to blame for this disaster.Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-29883880279371892792017-12-20T20:07:00.001-08:002017-12-20T20:07:22.110-08:00Microsoft 70-461 Question Answer<b>You create the following stored procedure. (Line numbers are included for reference only.)</b><br />
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Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-89521396531245457702017-11-06T21:56:00.003-08:002017-11-06T21:56:51.570-08:00Microsoft 'Black Friday' 2017: Early Windows Laptop, Surface Pro, Xbox One DealsMicrosoft MSFT + 0.4% is not about to be excluded from Black Friday 2017. Gatecrash the first deals of its rival Samsung, as well as most of the larger retailers (see my cover here for: Amazon, Kohl, Target, Walmart and Best Buy), Microsoft offers significant discounts on some of its most popular products, such as Surface Pro, Surface Laptop and Xbox.<br /><br />But are businesses good? Here is my Microsoft Black Friday 2017 guide to help you achieve the greatest savings:<br />
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Microsoft, like Samsung, will have agreements during November and December and not only during Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Next, I will reveal some of the best current sellers. In addition to buying from the Microsoft Store at Microsoft.com, be sure to keep Amazon, Best Buy, Kohl's and Target on your list of potential locations to find your favorite Microsoft product. All of these merchants will have the most popular Microsoft products, including Office 365, Surface Pro and Xbox One S, while all eyes will be on the Xbox One X.<br /><br />When you buy the Microsoft article on your list, be sure to look for additions and incentives to gift cards that will make the offer even more attractive. For example, I just revealed that Target will offer customers a $ 25 Target gift card when they purchase a 500GB Xbox One S console. It is known that Best Buy makes similar offers, so be sure to monitor that when you reveal to Best Buy the best sellers of your Black Friday advertising leak later this week.</div>
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<br />While the Microsoft store has some stores, its Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are usually concentrated online. Do not forget to check the Black.com page of Microsoft.com (link) because I suspect that you will begin to reveal the sales of Black Friday and Cyber Monday before November 15th.</div>
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<br />If you're looking for a Windows PC, do not overlook Microsoft's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Last year, there were offers for Dell Inspiron laptops and notebooks for Alienware games. The first still has a model for sale, see below.</div>
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The best technical offers prior to the sale of Samsung Black Friday 2017<br /><br />All prices are correct at the time of publication:<br /><br /> Microsoft.com: save on some Xbox One consoles and get two free games of your choice (value up to $ 99) - product link<br /> Microsoft.com: Save up to $ 400 on laptops, desktop computers and games: product link<br /> Microsoft.com - Surface Pro Essentials Kit (save up to $ 159) - product link<br /> Microsoft.com - Surface Laptop Essentials package (save up to $ 109) - product link<br /> Microsoft.com - Studio Surface Kit (save up to $ 99) - product link<br /> Microsoft.com - Dell Inspiron 15 i5567-3654GRY laptop for $ 499 (save $ 200) - product link<br /> Microsoft.com - Huawei MateBook Signature Edition 2 in 1 PC, 128 GB / Intel Core m5 for $ 849 (save $ 350) - product link<br /><br /> Kohl's - Microsoft Xbox One S 500GB Console + $ 45 Kohl's Cash for $ 189.99 (save $ 90) - product link<br /><br /> Walmart - Choice of 500GB Xbox One S console with bonus game and Microsoft driver for $ 279 (save $ 108.88) - product link<br /> Target - Scorpion Xbox One X Edition 1 TB (pre-order) for $ 499.99 - product link<br /><br />What you see above is only the beginning. Microsoft will be great this Black Friday and Cyber Monday both in their own retail stores and through Amazon, Best Buy, Kohl, Sam's Club, Target and Walmart.<br /><br />I will follow the best offers from Microsoft and all these stores throughout the month of November throughout the shopping period of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Mark my page and return regularly to see the latest offers with my daily updates. This is going to be the biggest online shopping season in history. </div>
Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-52312204661325060782017-09-11T04:25:00.000-07:002017-09-11T04:25:03.495-07:00Microsoft 70-461 Question Answer<b>You use Microsoft SQL Server to develop a database application.<br />You create a stored procedure named usp_calculategrowth. The stored procedure modifies<br />rows and can result in several different exceptions.<br />You need to ensure that when the stored procedure is executed, the following requirements<br />are met:</b><br /><br />
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<br />Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-8353134153264928602017-06-14T01:09:00.000-07:002017-06-14T01:09:04.757-07:00Microsoft 70-461 Question Answer<b>You have a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that contains tables named Customers and Orders. The tables are related by a column named CustomerID.</b><br />
<b>You need to create a query that meets the following requirements:</b><br />
<b>Returns the CustomerName for all customers and the OrderDate for any orders that they have placed. Results must include customers who have not placed any orders.</b><br />
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<b>A. </b>SELECT CustomerName, OrderDate<br />
FROM Customers<br />
RIGHT OUTER JOIN Orders<br />
ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID<br />
<b>B. </b>SELECT CustomerName, OrderDate<br />
FROM Customers<br />
JOIN Orders<br />
ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID<br />
<b>C.</b> SELECT CustomerName, OrderDate<br />
FROM Customers<br />
CROSS JOIN Orders<br />
ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID<br />
<b>D.</b> SELECT CustomerName, OrderDate<br />
FROM Customers<br />
LEFT OUTER JOIN Orders<br />
ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID<br />
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<b>You create a stored procedure that will update multiple tables within a transaction.</b><br />
<b>You need to ensure that if the stored procedure raises a run-time error, the entire transaction is terminated and rolled back.</b><br />
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<b>B. </b>SET ARITHABORT ON<br />
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<b>You need to create a query that calculates the total sales of each OrderId from the Sales.Details table. The solution must meet the following requirements:</b><br /><br />Use one-part names to reference columns.<br />Sort the order of the results from OrderId.<br />NOT depend on the default schema of a user.<br />Use an alias of TotalSales for the calculated ExtendedAmount.<br />Display only the OrderId column and the calculated TotalSales column.<br />Which code segment should you use?<br />To answer, type the correct code in the answer area.</div>
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If you thought Microsoft’s vision of the holographic office was cool, you might be happy to know that you can already work on a version of it today—just not using the Microsoft HoloLens.<br />
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Chinese developer Pygmal Technologies recently released a free beta of Space (also known as Space-VR), an app for either the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive. Like what Microsoft showed on stage at its Worldwide Partner Conference, Space allows you to pin multiple windows to a spot in virtual space so you can see everything at once—though so far, it appears to restrict you to browser windows. <b><a href="http://www.passleaders.com/70-461-exam.html">Passleader 70-461 Practice Test</a></b><br />
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(The other difference is that the HoloLens uses augmented reality, superimposing graphics over the real world. Both the Vive and the Rift use virtual reality, which covers your eyes with what essentially is a computer monitor.)<br />
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The idea, as anyone who's used multiple monitors knows, is that you become more productive when you can see everything that you’re working on at once. The Space app allows you to organize six large windows around your face, in much the same way you’d be able to physically place large monitors on your desk. Pygma claims the whole experience has been optimized for readability.</div>
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Launching a window in full-screen mode triggers what Pygmal calls “theater mode,” where the window seems to curve slightly to wrap around your head as you look back and forth to fill your field of vision. Users can also set 360-degree photos as backgrounds for Space—so as you swivel your office chair, you’ll be able to pan around the backdrop as well. (A static background may also help eliminate the “simulator sickness” that seems to affect gamers who become disoriented when focusing on moving VR objects.)<br />
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Space appears to be targeting a slightly different audience than Virtual Desktop ($14.99 on Steam as of press time), an app for both VR platforms that appears to try and mimic your multimonitor setup in VR. If you have two monitors, for example, it appears that Virtual Desktop will display two windows. Space appears to go a step further, and carves out more virtual windows for you to play with, regardless of how many physical monitors you own. But Virtual Desktop also offers its own perks: You can use whatever PC app you’d like, and the app includes its own fleshed-out theater mode as well as some nifty audio visualizations.<br />
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(Startup 8ninths has also developed a HoloLens-powered physical desk that leaves space for virtual windows as well as physical monitors.)<br />
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For now, Space is much more limited—but it’s also free. “When it goes out of beta, we will keep it at a very low cost (or even free) for non-commercial use,” Pygmal pledges. “We also plan to sell licenses for commercial use.”</div>
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<b>Why this matters:</b> Microsoft and many of its competitors are trying to establish AR and VR as a new entertainment medium. But Microsoft built its company on the backs of business customers, and the hefty license fees they’ll pay for tools that invigorate their business. Sizzle may sell the steak, but there are a number of companies eyeing AR or VR for its productivity potential. Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-7531024843677302292016-06-08T22:37:00.001-07:002016-09-26T00:46:17.614-07:00How Microsoft Wooed A Long-Time Apple User<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week, I have a Windows-based computer, purchased for the first time in 15 years.<br />
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I've been a Mac user since 1986 and I have always preferred the world. But this time when I need a new primary computing device, willingly went to leave the apple orchard and a Windows machine is not the only one, but Microsoft, unexpected, develops and sells.<br />
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Like many long-time Mac user does, I never thought that such a choice. Design, innovation and features: But I did it for good purposes.<br />
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Consultants have been the hallmark of Apple devices. intelligent, attractive design with things to do - - easily that victory had not even thought of yet. But this time, the book of Microsoft Surface, a laptop / tablet hybrid (a product segment fast growing) computer, not just the features I wanted, but rather, simply a beautiful piece of hardware that marry performance.<br />
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So I found myself walking in the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley city as a whole and not only with technology and innovation, but incredibly fashionable, lugging a big, big, disturbing untrendy the Microsoft brand bags Microsoft shop.<br />
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Shame. A white plastic bag minimalist Apple has long been a fashion pose. A bag of Microsoft, even for Windows users (and most computer users in the world run Windows) from errs heavily on the Mstrbyn.<br />
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And oh, the Microsoft store. Always ironic contrast to the main store of Apple crystal box about 200 yards away, so one of his last projects department stores, Steve Jobs. Apple store is always packed. Microsoft Store, a lot.<br />
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The reasons for this are not really blame Microsoft shop. windows machines are everywhere and is available from many manufacturers and sellers. So Windows software. Apple things can be found in a limited number of places, but especially the scope of tastes rank exhibited at the Apple store. They have a good sense (and hardware stores).<br />
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But I was at Microsoft Store.<br />
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I was only vaguely aware of the book, until I started looking at Windows machines, the preferred version of the software to run the sound of the nuances that I need, due to repetitive strain injury serious.<br />
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Writing options<br />
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I also like to write options that can help prevent mouse, keyboard and touchpad research.<br />
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It was then that I reserve levels, excellent, top to turn the tablet / laptop that has a lot of energy, Windows software complete audio interactive pen / stylus to control the operating system, in addition to other activities, such as notetaking, Mark and discovery of documents, paintings and so on.<br />
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Send in print or cursive, and software become a word processing document, or write in a web form or the Comments. In the Apple store, which was about to do it is the text of the application for iPad. "Oh, well, no. But anyway," said the sales assistant.<br />
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When you can, I can get a new iPad as well, to replace my aging MacBook Air - I'm not just for Windows. Apple, for me, is still not as useful, and not so attractive in many ways, such as a mixture with an appropriate level book, but detachable keyboard.<br />
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And this is an unattractive. Before buying the book, I have a chat with a friend, a former employee of Apple and hardware, software and design searches that Steve Jobs had worked closely for years. I was seriously impressed with the book. He did it for the plan, external functions, while doing nothing Apple thinks.<br />
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A lot of people have to agree, as their book sales levels and tablet surface initial expectations, Microsoft has passed, pushing sales up 61 percent and hit $ 1.1 billion in Q3 despite some errors in the operating system now seems that the operating system and firmware updates (I'm such everyday issues Apple devices also) is.<br />
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As I bought the book, I remembered that 15 years ago, on a visit to Microsoft headquarters in Washington, I'm one of the main researchers working on a new device called tablet, where users can interview notes they can be converted to type.<br />
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This demonstration was the star in a speech by Bill Gates. Now here it is, weighs about half a kilo of the demo device. So Microsoft did not rush to production. I wonder where they might be with this incredible success now.<br />
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Former Apple as my friend pointed out, Microsoft is becoming an interesting company to watch. Think different, maybe.Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-1784410786621419512016-05-09T00:37:00.002-07:002016-05-09T00:37:35.876-07:00Pass4sure 70-461 Question Answer<b>You have a database that contains the tables shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)</b><br />
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<b>You need to create a view named uv_CustomerFullName to meet the following requirements:<br />The code must NOT include object delimiters.<br />The view must be created in the Sales schema.<br />Columns must only be referenced by using one-part names.<br />The view must return the first name and the last name of all customers.<br />The view must prevent the underlying structure of the customer table from being changed.<br />The view must be able to resolve all referenced objects, regardless of the user's default schema.<br />Which code segment should you use?<br />To answer, type the correct code in the answer area.</b><br />
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<br /><b>CREATE VIE W Sales.uv_CustomerFullName<br />WITH SCHEMABINDING<br />AS<br />SELECT FirstName, LastName<br />FROM Sales.Customers</b>Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-83058202837594328952016-04-05T01:53:00.001-07:002016-09-26T00:46:24.525-07:00Pass4sure 70-461 Question Answer<b>You have a database that contains the tables shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)</b><br />
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You deploy a new server that has SQL Server 2012 installed. You need to create a table named<br />
Sales.OrderDetails on the new server. Sales.OrderDetails must meet the following requirements:<br />
Write the results to a disk.<br />
Contain a new column named LineItemTotal that stores the product of ListPrice and Quantity for each row.<br />
The code must NOT use any object delimiters.<br />
The solution must ensure that LineItemTotal is stored as the last column in the table. Which code segment should you use?<br />
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For all the talk of a new Microsoft, the company can still throw in a dash of the old. The only question is, which one will show up at any given time?<br /><br />On the one hand, there’s little doubt the 40-year-old software giant is undergoing a cultural overhaul under Chief Executive Satya Nadella.<br /><br />Once famously hard-edged and competitive, Microsoft in the past few years has surprised the technology industry with moves to better link its products to those of rivals. Conciliatory gestures toward the likes of Apple and Salesforce, far-fetched just a few years ago, have softened Microsoft’s public image.<br /><br />That spirit is likely to be on display again beginning Wednesday this week, as Microsoft hosts its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco, an event where executives are expected to outline the company’s technology aims and how partner companies fit in. <br /><br /> Beneath this surface, however, even a kinder, gentler Microsoft will still throw a few punches in the service of its core interests, say business partners and analysts who track the Redmond company.<br /><br />Glimpses of that are visible in Microsoft’s two main corporate priorities: the push to spur adoption of the new Windows 10 operating system, and a bet-the-company effort to pull customers into Microsoft’s network of software delivered over the Internet — the much-heralded cloud computing.<br /><br />In recent months, the company has irritated some Windows users with an aggressive push to upgrade to Windows 10, targeted flailing cloud-based note-taking startup Evernote with a new software tool, and briefly uninvited a cloud-computing competitor from a Microsoft conference.<br /><br />“Microsoft is willing to break some glass along the way, as long as they don’t shatter it all,” said Patrick Moorhead, who dealt with Microsoft during stints at PC builder Compaq and chip-maker AMD, and now tracks the company at his private analysis firm. “They’re saying, ‘We’re going to move in this direction, we know we’re going to inconvenience some people, but this is the way that we think the industry is going over time.’ ”<br />
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<br />At last year’s Build, Terry Myerson, the Microsoft executive overseeing Windows, outlined where Microsoft was going with Windows 10, the then-upcoming version of the 30-year-old operating-system franchise. Microsoft, he said, aimed to have Windows 10 running on 1 billion devices within three years.<br /><br />To meet that ambitious goal, Microsoft offered the software as a free update for home users, accompanied by a series of computer prompts to update. This year, those prompts switched for many to an automatic download and upgrade offer as part of Microsoft’s Windows software-update function. <br /><br />The lack of an obvious “no, thanks” option rubbed some Windows users the wrong way.<br /><br />Ron Loomis, a 68-year-old real-estate appraiser in Olympia, said he woke up one day earlier this month to find his home computer running Windows 10, an update he said he didn’t authorize. He rejected a prompt to approve the new software-license agreement, which reverted his system back to Windows 7.<br /><br />After lunch, he found his PC again prompting him to try the new software.<br /><br />“They seem pretty much to have decided that you’re going to have Windows 10,” Loomis said. “So what’s the point in asking?”<br /><br />Microsoft says it offers users an option, not a requirement, to update and that the process requires people to affirmatively click through prompts multiple times. Ultimately, the company says, the software’s beefed-up security features and automatic updates are better for most users than older versions of Windows.<br /><br />That hasn’t stopped people like Loomis from crying foul, arguing Microsoft is pushing a product they don’t want.<br /><br />“They’re being aggressive in encouraging customers and compelling customers to make the move,” said Stephen Kleynhans, an analyst who tracks operating systems for researcher Gartner. “They really do want to get the older platforms out of the market.”<br />
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<br />Microsoft’s push also extends to the cloud, another commitment the company made last year at Build with a bold target.<br /><br />Nadella said Microsoft’s range of business-focused cloud-computing products, including the Office 365 productivity suite and Azure data-center services, would be taking in $20 billion a year in revenue by 2018, a hugely ambitious goal for a set of businesses that, in many cases, didn’t exist just a few years ago.<br /><br />To meet that target, Microsoft has lit a fire under its product groups, sales force and network of software resellers.<br /><br />To entice customers to move to the cloud, Microsoft has started releasing some of its latest features first into its Web-based software variants, with those updates going to traditionally purchased versions later.<br /><br />An executive of one Washington state software firm said the all-in move to the cloud was too quick for some software resellers who built their business off commissions for selling Microsoft’s out-of-the-box software.<br /><br />“I see what they’re doing and why they’re doing it,” said the executive, who didn’t want to be named for fear of jeopardizing business relationships with Microsoft. “They want to move everyone to the cloud, which is recurring revenue for them. But it is not always a great choice for the consumer.” <br /><br />For partners who’d rather continue to rely primarily on noncloud business, he added, “they’ve made it inconvenient in many ways.”<br />
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<br />Okta, a San Francisco startup that builds software that enables businesses to manage their employees’ logins to cloud-based services, is one company recently exposed to the Microsoft sharp elbows — albeit temporarily.<br /><br />The company does much of its work helping companies log on to Microsoft’s Office 365 Web-based productivity suite. During the past two years, Okta has showed off its products at Microsoft trade shows.<br /><br />That symbiotic relationship has a complication, though.<br /><br />As part of its effort to replicate its roster of business software in the cloud, Microsoft recently ramped up its effort to sell its Enterprise Mobility Suite, a product that performs many of the same functions as Okta’s and competes head to head in that marketplace. In media interviews, fast-growing Okta hasn’t been shy about its ambitions to win in the nascent market.<br /><br />Earlier this month, after Okta put down a deposit to exhibit its products at a Microsoft information-technology conference, the San Francisco startup received a letter from Microsoft revoking the sponsorship. The reason: “broad competition between our companies.”<br /><br />After a news story on the decision — and resulting critical reactions — Microsoft reversed itself and said Okta could, in fact, sponsor the event.<br /><br />For Todd McKinnon, Okta’s chief executive, the decision smacked of the Microsoft of yesteryear.<br /><br />“It’s ‘openness and fairness’ where they’ve lost, and old tactics where they think they can win,” McKinnon, in an interview, said of Microsoft’s posture. “They think they can take their (server and desktop software) business and replicate it in the cloud. But they don’t have to lose for us to win. That’s an old-school mentality.”<br /><br />Microsoft says the Okta decision was an oversight, something of a hiccup on the way to turning over a new corporate leaf. Some observers agree.<br /><br />“It takes a long, long time to change a culture,” said Jeffrey Hammond, who tracks developers at researcher Forrester. “For some people, they resist. It takes years to turn over managers, directors, vice presidents.”<br /><br />The technology industry is littered with complicated relationships and changing allegiances.<br /><br />Microsoft’s first markets, programming languages and associated software, made it a partner of the likes of IBM and Apple. But as the company’s ambitions broadened and Microsoft grew into a software juggernaut in the 1980s and 1990s, those relationships soured.<br /><br />Similarly, one of the big, early moves in Microsoft’s newfound openness came in 2013 when the company announced that its cloud-computing platform would support database software made by Oracle. It was a break in decades of occasional hostility between the companies.<br /><br />Of course, that partnership didn’t mean an end to all competition.<br /><br />This month, Microsoft fired an unambiguous shot at Oracle, announcing that it would release a version of its previously Windows-only database software for Linux operating systems, a corner of the market dominated by Oracle.<br /><br />“Oracle could be, conceptually, viewed as a partner when (the first) move happened,” said Wes Miller, an analyst with researcher Directions on Microsoft. “Now it’s very clear. Microsoft is reminding people that they may be a partner, but they’re also a competitor. You just need to be aware of where you fall.” Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-24141880766906768392016-03-21T04:46:00.000-07:002016-03-21T04:46:31.320-07:00Microsoft Agrees Hiring Go-Go Dancers For Its Xbox Party Was WrongMicrosoft says it was "unequivocally wrong" for hosting a party with scantily dressed female dancers during a video game developers' conference.<br />
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An Xbox spokeswoman declined to answer questions about the dancers, who wore abbreviated school-girl outfits as they reportedly greeted party-goers and danced on platforms. The party was held Thursday night during the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.<br />
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Several people who attended the after-hours party complained on social media that they were offended and disappointed at seeing the go-go dancers. Some also noted the irony that, just hours earlier, Microsoft had sponsored a "Women in Gaming" luncheon to promote diversity in the industry.<br />
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In a statement, Xbox chief Phil Spencer acknowledged the event "disappointed many people" and pledged to "do better in the future."<br />
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Artificial intelligence has beaten the ancient board game of Go, but can it master Minecraft? Researchers from Microsoft are opening up the game to computer scientists who want to train up AI programs.<br />
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Using games to test an AI's ability to teach itself a set of rules is an established approach, but most games used so far have been fairly simple. In February last year, for example, the Google-owned DeepMind (the same company that's tackled Go) created an AI that taught itself to play 49 Atari games. This was an incredible achievement, but the games involved were basic, including titles like Breakout that required the AI to only master a few rules (hit blocks; get a high score) in a two dimensional world.<br />
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At the time, DeepMind acknowledged that the next step would be to move onto more complex games, and Microsoft is allowing exactly the sort of next step. "Minecraft is the perfect platform for this kind of research because it’s this very open world," said Katja Hofmann, one of the researchers from Microsoft's Cambridge lab in a press release. "You can do survival mode, you can do ‘build battles’ with your friends, you can do courses, you can implement our own games. This is really exciting for artificial intelligence because it allows us to create games that stretch beyond current abilities."<br />
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To allow computer scientists to plug their programs into Minecraft, Hofmann and her colleagues created AIX: an open-source platform that acts as an AI interface for the game. Hoffman says that using this software, researchers will be able to test their AI on all the complex decision-making the game demands. You can tell an AI controlling a character to find the highest spot in the game, for example, and then the computer will have to work out how to navigate the terrain, make weapons, and kill zombies. Just like real life, of course.<br />
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Using Minecraft also allows researchers to test AI as if they were operating a physical avatar. "It allows you to have 'embodied AI'," AIX software engineer Matthew Johnson told BBC News. "So, rather than have a situation where the AI sees an avatar of itself, it can actually be inside, looking out through the eyes of something that is living in the world We think this is an essential part of building this kind of general intelligence." The company says this means AIX is a stepping stone to creating the sort of AI-interface that could one day be applied to real-life robots.<br />
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Unsupervised learning of the sort that AIX fosters is the next big step for artificial intelligence. Although deep learning systems created by companies like Facebook and Google have proved incredibly successful for commercial applications in recent years, the sort of intelligence they display is narrow. They can understand spoken commands and recognize images, for example, but they still make common sense mistakes. Tools like AIX will help create better methods for AI to teach themselves, and, subsequently, start to learn what the whole world is like, not just a small slice of it.Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-52221284966553107732016-03-10T04:16:00.001-08:002016-03-10T04:16:34.208-08:00Microsoft just joined Facebook and fired a huge shot at Cisco<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwW7iQ47m1dyR9Mu0s_HTYmJGxUO1vX5jRmixTprC8COElJ7fUZeT5w1a-E0QA91qPXiWIEhBJGh_qtJvAsUcOKFJ1-x3mLsc3gPKLbtr72prOwlkG_UcKuki9bQTpi4L3LAWU3IxiFI_/s1600/cisco-chuck-robbins-and-john-chambers.png1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwW7iQ47m1dyR9Mu0s_HTYmJGxUO1vX5jRmixTprC8COElJ7fUZeT5w1a-E0QA91qPXiWIEhBJGh_qtJvAsUcOKFJ1-x3mLsc3gPKLbtr72prOwlkG_UcKuki9bQTpi4L3LAWU3IxiFI_/s400/cisco-chuck-robbins-and-john-chambers.png1.jpg" width="400" /></a>Microsoft on Wednesday made waves in the tech industry when it announced that it is giving away for free some software it designed for its own internal use called Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC).<br /><br />And this news can't be making Cisco happy. <br />SONiC is software used to run an up-and-coming type of computer network switch that is rising in popularity, known as software-defined networking (SDN), that threatens to overturn Cisco's stranglehold on the network switch industry.<br /><br />SDN takes all the fancy features that an expensive switch offers and puts them into software, making networks easier to program, update and change. You still need the hardware, but you can use less of it, or less expensive models.<br /><br />Microsoft is giving SONiC software away as part of its work with the Open Compute Project (OCP), an organization founded by Facebook to build "open source" hardware for data centers the same way that the people behind the Linux operating system do with free, open source software.<br /><br />OCP hardware designs are available for free for anyone to use, change, and contribute changes back to the group to use. Contract manufacturers are standing by to build the hardware.<br /><br />By extension, companies like Microsoft are contributing the software needed to run hardware to OCP, like SONiC.<br />
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<br />Facebook has also been taking shots at Cisco's world. It has been designing creative new network switches that use low-cost hardware and open source software and giving those designs away to OCP. Several companies are building Facebook's switches and selling them.<br /><br />Microsoft developed SONiC to use in its own cloud computing data centers.<br /><br />It's using it now to support its Azure and Office 365, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich tells Business Insider. <br /><br />"We have it in production. One of the things we wanted to do was submit something that we were confident was well-thought through and would work," he says. <br /><br />(By the way, Russinovich is a famous and high-profile guy at Microsoft. He joined the company when Microsoft bought his company, Winternals, in 2006, software that was beloved by IT professionals. He's been popular speaker at many Microsoft conferences, ever since, and he's written a bunch of tech-suspense-thriller novels, too.)<br />
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We've told you before how hackers like to disguise malicious program files as harmless documents, images or music files, and how to spot them. However, hackers can also use regular files to cause problems, specifically Word documents.<br /><br />Using a specially crafted Word document, such as ones from the Microsoft Word Intruder exploit tool, a hacker can crash Word and open a hole to slip in a ransomware virus or data-stealing Trojan. That's why you should never open attachments from unsolicited emails, even if they appear harmless.<br /><br />For businesses it's even worse. Using the "Hawkeye" version of this attack, some hackers have been stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies.<br /><br />The way "Hawkeye" works is that a hacker creates or buys a Word file designed to crash unpatched computers. Then they choose what kind of virus they want to use and add it to the file. In the case of "Hawkeye," it's a keylogger.<br /><br />The hacker then sends the Word file to the employees at businesses in a general industry. Typically, the email will say the Word document contains an order or quote request so it gets to an employee who deals with finances.<br /><br />Once an employee opens and runs the Word document, the keylogger installs. Then the hacker waits for the employee to log in to their company email account and steals the username and password.<br /><br />The hacker logs in to the email account themselves and waits for the company to send out an invoice to a high-value client. Then the hacker sends out their own follow-up email from that email address telling the client that the account number for the payment has changed.<br /><br />The new account is one the hacker set up, so when the company's client pays, the money goes straight to the hacker. Depending on the industry and client, this payout could be upwards of $1 million.<br /><br />In analyzing the Hawkeye attack, security experts found that hackers started with a few thousand scam emails and ended up with only a handful of successful scores. However, because they were so high-value it makes the scam worthwhile.<br /><br />The other takeaway is that thanks to tools and services available on the black market, even low-skilled hackers working alone or with friend can launch this attack.Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-5179703085098100172016-03-01T01:52:00.000-08:002016-03-01T01:52:08.441-08:00Pass4sure 70-461 Question Answer<b>You have a database that contains the tables shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)</b><br />
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You deploy a new server that has SQL Server 2012 installed. You need to create a table named<br />Sales.OrderDetails on the new server. Sales.OrderDetails must meet the following requirements:<br />Write the results to a disk.<br />Contain a new column named LineItemTotal that stores the product of ListPrice and Quantity for each row.<br />The code must NOT use any object delimiters.<br />The solution must ensure that LineItemTotal is stored as the last column in the table. Which code segment should you use?<br />To answer, type the correct code in the answer area.<br />
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Just to reiterate, this isn’t a full-blown review. Having had the laptop for just over twenty-four hours, I’ve been able to sketch out my initial impressions and can see areas that I want to explore in more detail over the next month. It takes time to work through a complicated device like the Surface Book, even though it should be simple enough to be picked up and used by almost anybody. So this is that first sketch, the details will be filled in with a long-term review later in March.<br /><br />The Surface Book has been available in a number of territories since it was announced in October 2015, and in that intervening time it has picked up numerous software updates, bug-fixes, and generally picked up a bit more polish. I don’t think it’s fair to say that it was rushed out, but Microsoft’s commitment to continually evolve Windows 10 as a software platform has been reflected in the number of updates that Windows 10 and the Surface Book has received since last year.<br /><br />It did mean that the first hour out of the box I left the Surface Book to download a significant batch of updates, and I was advised to install a number of driver and firmware updates as well as the over-the-air patches. The Surface Book was still usable during this time and I would assume that in the early period of sales, Surface Book buyers will have done their research and realise this is to be expected. For newcomers to the platform there’s no indication why this is all going on, and that might be a more user-friendly thing to offer.<br />
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<br />The Surface Book is Microsoft’s first laptop, which means that Windows 10 on the device should be regarded as the definitive product. Just as the Surface and Surface Pro range shows an OS running Redmond’s tablet vision, this is the desktop view of its future. That vision includes a heavy use of the cloud to share data, which meant that during the first few minutes of use the settings from my Surface Pro were synced to the Surface Book – my themes, wallpapers, and app lists were waiting for me. It wasn’t a direct clone, but it was enough to make me feel comfortable in the Surface Book environment.<br /><br />Again this just happens in the background as the default behaviour of Windows 10 is to sync data to the cloud at every opportunity, which feels more like a smartphone OS approach than a desktop OS approach. Windows 10 has a ‘tablet’ mode to help modern apps work with a touchscreen and I’ve tended to leave this on when working with the Surface Pro because it just felt right. Not so with the Surface Book. The increase in screen size, the larger trackpad, and the excellent keyboard scream laptop. I’m more than happy to stay in the desktop mode on the Surface Book.<br /><br />The hardware echoes this feeling of a platform that is from ‘five minutes into the future’. The hinge has rightly picked up much of the attention. All design is a compromise, and Microsoft’s decision to have the Surface Book screen detach from the base into ‘clipboard’ mode has been turned into an aesthetic advantage with the rolling nature of the fulcrum hinge.<br />
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Any time you can turn a simple hinge into something that sells your product, you have to thank the designers. I’d say this is the stand out feature – it looks different to everything else on the market. Almost all of my worries about how well-balanced the Surface Book were unfounded – the laptop is stable while working with the screen at any angle, the hinge has enough friction to hold a position, and it’s smooth to open and close the device without requiring any excess pressure.<br /><br />I still worry about how this hinge will cope while travelling. I’m worried enough to consider travelling with the unit split in two so there’s no space between the two sections when it is pushed into a tight space in a carry-on bag. Surely the jam of overhead lockers will expose the Book to more pressure than I would put on it at home? That’s something I’m going to look at in my long-term review. The mammoth SXSW festival is due to take place in Austin, and I’m going to take the Surface Book as my ‘conference computer’ to see how it copes with two transatlantic flights and eleven days of portability. That should tell me a lot about the Surface Book in the real world.<br />
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Maybe it’s me, but I was hoping the fulcrum hinge would act as a safe space to carry the Surface Pen. Unfortunately not. It’s the same pen as the Surface Pro, which is broadly circular in cross-section with a chord sliced off to provide a flat surface that can magnetically attach to the left side of the screen. That leaves it hanging on the outside of the machine and not a suitable place while travelling. Being able to tuck it in the space between the screen and keyboard while closed is an obvious answer that Microsoft has not taken. Carrying the Surface Pen has not been elegantly answered, and when so much focus has been placed on design by Microsoft, this is a curious omission at best.<br />
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<br />The Surface Pen is behind my biggest issue with the Surface Book. Although the fulcrum hinge keeps the laptop stable on a desk (or a lap), there’s more weight in the screen than most laptops to allow it to be used as a tablet. Tapping on the screen with the Surface Pen or my finger on the top half of the screen and there’s a very slight amount of flex where the screen and base connect. It’s just enough to register as a wobble, and to feel that the screen is moving away from me rather than registering a pen or finger input.<br /><br />The Surface Pro, with its full width kickstand, does not have this issue, and I can’t believe it didn’t come up in testing. Which means this is acceptable to Microsoft, and that’s a bit of a disappointment. Yes, the Surface Book is far more a laptop than a tablet with a keyboard (in the way that the Surface Pro range is) which means there’s going to be far more use of the touchpad and the keyboard, but I already find myself actively avoiding using the touchscreen in a way I never did with the Surface Pro. That’s not what I expected.<br /><br />I’m already missing the lack of a kickstand on the clipboard when it’s away from the keyboard base. There’s no natural way to prop it up for a good viewing angle – your choice by design is in your hand, or flat on the table. Microsoft would likely stress that most people will use the Surface Book primarily as a laptop and in pure tablet mode for about a fifth of the time. That’s certainly how the battery usage is split over the two batteries, and is likely behind the decision to place the key peripheral ports on the base of the device. A kickstand would disrupt the graceful look of the Surface Book when closed, but should that be traded against usability? How I manage the two modes and the time spent is something I’ll address in the aforementioned long-term review in four or five weeks time here on Forbes.<br />
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The best word to describe the Surface Book so far is comfortable. After I switched it on and logged onto my existing Microsoft account, it worked away in the background to get itself up to date, it synced my preferences over to give me ‘my’ machine, and because of that everything in Windows 10 was where I expect it to be. The on-boarding process is smooth although the updates do extend the perceived time this takes.<br /><br />The two headline features of the fulcrum hinge and the detachable tablet (Microsoft can brand it the clipboard as much as possible, it’s still a minimalist Windows 10 tablet) are easy to use, stand out well, and in the main do not get in the way of normal operation of the Surface Book as a laptop although I need more time to decide if the flaws above are outweighed by the positive benefits.<br />
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And I’ll touch briefly on the keyboard and mouse. They are going to be the key input devices on the Surface Book and Microsoft has spent time to get these looking and feeling right. The keys have a relatively large amount of travel, which suits my typing style of direct and hard key presses. The bounce back of the key provides me with more than enough feedback and with a similar keyboard layout to the Surface Pro devices it’s easy to switch between devices. The touchpad’s large surface area and glass construction is instantly familiar (especially to MacBook users…) and offers accurate input and multi-touch facilities for extra commands at my fingertips.<br /><br />The Surface Book is a pricey machine, but the evidence of that price is obvious in my first moments with the machine. The question now is how much do these artistic flourishes impact on the day-to-day use of the device, can it be a workhorse machine and remain stylish, and has Microsoft created “the ultimate laptop” that it professes? That’s going to take me more than twenty-four hours, so check back later in March to get my definitive answer. Right now, it’s looking good.Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-21326254798004238002016-02-28T22:15:00.002-08:002016-02-28T22:15:45.427-08:00Microsoft Shores Up Its Cyberattack Defenses<br />
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With a touch of a button on the wall outside Microsoft Corp. ’s Cyber Defense Operations Center, opaque windows turn clear, offering visitors a glimpse of the high-tech bunker where the software giant’s security engineers work to thwart hackers.<br /><br />The new facility is at the heart of Microsoft’s campaign to rebuild its reputation for security at a time when the number of potential targets for cyberattacks—from smartphones to corporate servers and Web services—has exploded. <br /><br />The center isn’t just a workspace it’s also a showcase. When the glass turns clear, clients can look on as engineers battle hackers from behind dual-screen workstations. Pillars around the room are hung with giant monitors listing the latest threats. The far wall bears the directives “protect,” “detect,” and “respond” in huge block letters.<br /><br />Microsoft has long been viewed as doing too little to protect its customers from cyberattacks. The company has said, however, that its customers need to feel safe running Windows, storing data in its OneDrive online data-storage facilities, basing operations on its Azure cloud-computing service, and using numerous other Microsoft products.<br /><br />“Microsoft has been on the fringe of security for some time,” said Duncan Brown, research director at IDC Research Inc. “Now, they are putting it at the center of operations.”<br /><br />On Tuesday, Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith is scheduled to give a keynote speech on security in cloud computing at the annual RSA digital-security conference in San Francisco.<br /><br />The Microsoft facility, which opened in November, brings together roughly 50 security experts from Microsoft’s Office and Windows group, its Xbox and Azure divisions and several other business units. The idea is to unify its disparate security teams, as well as the roughly 3,500 other security employees spread among offices nearby and throughout the world.<br /><br />Microsoft declined to disclose the center’s cost, but it said it spent $1 billion on security last year, including acquisitions.<br /><br />Microsoft isn’t alone in building a cybersecurity war room. Tech companies including networking-equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. and cybersecurity company Symantec Corp. have set up their own operations centers to monitor and foil attackers—and to impress customers.<br /><br />The seed for the Cyber Defense Operations Center was planted by Microsoft’s earlier Cybercrimes Center, which opened in 2013. There, the company combined various groups to take on problems like child exploitation on the Internet. Microsoft found that combining Web-based investigators with its Windows and Office units yielded quicker results than having those groups work independently.<br /><br />Early last year, company executives visited tech and telecommunications companies to learn how they shared data among their security teams. Those visits led Microsoft to design an open collaborative space. The company decided to face computer monitors away from the viewing area so visitors couldn’t see any sensitive information.<br />
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The ubiquity of Microsoft’s products makes it a big target for hackers. The latest Windows 10 operating system is far more secure than predecessors, largely because it includes free upgrades that are installed automatically in the background, ensuring it has the latest protections.<br /><br />Still, Microsoft, with its vast reach in personal computers, game consoles, computer servers and Web services, remains under constant attack. It thinks the new center will help it respond more quickly. That’s important because attackers went undetected on victims’ networks for a median of 146 days in 2015, according to an estimate by cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc.<br /><br />“Minutes matter, and seconds matter,” said Bryan Casper, a security-incident-response manager at the center. “So, looking across the room at someone is better than waiting for an email.”<br /><br />According to Microsoft, the key to rapid response is an emerging technology known as machine learning. The company has hired a group of so-called white-hat hackers known as the Red Team to attack its networks and software. Machine learning programs watch those incidents, as well as real attacks, to learn what attacks looks like and improve defenses. The system sifts the billions of pieces of data—customers logging in and out, using various software features, uploading and downloading files—looking for patterns that match, possibly indicating an attack.<br /><br />“We can be much more predictive about security than we’ve been in the past,” said Pete Boden, Microsoft’s general manager of Cloud and Enterprise Security. Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975299773043710411.post-35548916333120961432016-02-18T01:27:00.000-08:002016-02-28T22:07:21.661-08:00Microsoft’s Outlook.com Now Has An Overhauled Look And Features <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Microsoft announced that it has started rolling out a revamped version of Outlook.com with new features and a new look. The company says that it is rolling out the new version as fast as possible, with millions of accounts being upgraded each week.<br />
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According to Microsoft’s Official Blogs announcement, “The Outlook team is on a mission to bring you the best email and calendar experience at work, at home across all your favorite devices. In recent months, we made several updates to our desktop and mobile apps, launching Outlook 2016 and delivering a steady stream of updates to our iOS, Android and Windows 10 apps. Today, we are announcing an important milestone for Outlook.com.”<br />
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Existing Outlook.com users will get these upgrades soon. The new Outlook.com is built on an Office 365-based infrastructure so users get the benefit of an email service that’s used worldwide, along with all the features spotted on Office 365. Microsoft allows you to do things like stay on top of that address book and automatically add flight info to calendars.<br />
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In terms of new features, Outlook.com will also allow you to edit documents and respond to emails side by side. The company says, “Managing edits in an attachment can be an arduous multi-step process, especially in other email services that don’t work well with Office documents. Outlook.com is deeply integrated with Office, with a new side-by-side editing feature designed to simplify this process. You can now view or edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents and photos while simultaneously replying to the original message.”<br />
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The biggest feature added to the new version is add-ins. Users can now add a GIF file from Office 365 or even search for and share restaurant reviews from Yelp. You can even manage your o-do list from Wunderlist, among many other things. Soon, users will also be able to schedule a Skype call right from Outlook.com.
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When we reviewed Microsoft's Surface Book back in October we noticed a number of weird issues. Bluescreens and driver crashes occurred frequently, and the docking app for the display crashed occasionally. Microsoft assured us that some of the issues would be addressed before consumers started purchasing the devices, but they weren't. A growing number of Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 owners have been voicing their issues recently.<br /><br />Paul Thurrott labelled the problems Microsoft's "Surfacegate" last month, and Surface owners have been turning to Microsoft's support forums. Now the software maker has now been forced to finally respond. Microsoft is rolling out new firmware updates today for the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that address power management problems and Intel driver issues. Microsoft doesn't state whether this addresses all of the complaints, but Surface boss Panos Panay notes he has been reading blogs, comments, social media, and forums to take in all the feedback.<br /><br />"We are committed to continuing to improve Surface," says Panay. "And to continue to help all our customers realize the full benefits of the latest silicon and Windows 10." This latest silicon, Intel's Skylake processor, has been particularly troublesome. According to sources at Microsoft, the company has been struggling with the power management of Intel's new Skylake chipsets.<br />
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Microsoft isn't alone, either. Dell has suffered similar problems with Intel's Skylake chips, and has had to issue a number of BIOS updates to address early glitches with power management. OEMs generally have a few bugs with any processor transition, but we've heard there have been a few more issues with this architecture transition.<br /><br />Microsoft is addressing some issues today, and will continue to push fixes through Windows Update. Despite the feedback and issues, Panos Panay is still pumped about Surface. "We are pumped that many of you love your Surfaces," says Panay. "Keep the feedback coming."Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03502413668997385462noreply@blogger.com0