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Windows 8 continues to flop hard
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[cfsp key="google_adsense_300x250"]“The real take-away from Net Applications’ May 2013 release of NetMarketShare monthly operating system statistics is that, as PC sales continue to collapse, Microsoft’s Windows 8 could be a factor behind the plunge,” Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports for ZDNet. “Windows 8 continues to fall behind Microsoft’s previous top operating system failure, Vista, and Windows is no longer the dominant end-user operating system when PCs, smartphones and tablets are considered,” Vaughan-Nichols reports. “Windows 8′s month-over-month growth rate is lagging further and further behind Vista’s dreadful 2007 adoption numbers. When comparing the operating systems when they were first launched, Windows 8′s adoption rate in its first month trailed Vista by just over half-a-percent among PC buyers. Now, in their 8th month out, Vista’s market-share numbers now lead Windows 8 by 3.64 percent.” Vaug

India’s Top 10 Most Respected Technology Vendors 2013 – Here are the results…
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CIO Reality The CIOs have spoken… 224 CIOs participated in the CIO Association of India‘s annual survey on India’s Most Respected Technology Vendors. We asked them the question “Which technology vendor (operating in India) do you respect the most?“ Key Findings: IBM continues to dominate the list. Even though it has lost more than 8% of the votes compared to 2012, it is still almost three times as respected as the next name on the list. Oracle and Google are no longer part of the top 10, they were at 6th and 10th place respectively in 2012. Microsoft has gained four spots, jumping from 8th to 4th place. Dell and HP have exchanged places, Dell is now 2nd and HP occupies the 3rd spot. Cisco has dropped three places from 4th to 7th. EMC and Cognizant are the new entrants into the top 10. (Click on the image to zoom) Click to view larger image

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Microsoft defends Xbox One $500 price point–”We’re over-delivering value”
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Microsoft’s Xbox boss Don Mattrick has spoken out to defend the Xbox One’s $500 price point, saying the company is in fact over-delivering value with the next-generation system. “It’s a lower number than some of the analysts had forecasted,” Mattrick said on Bloomberg TV. “We’re over-delivering value against other choices I think consumers can get. Any modern product these days you look at it [and] $499 isn’t a ridiculous price point. We’re delivering thousands of dollars of value to people, so I think they’re going to love it when they use it.” -Gamespot You’re not helping, Microsoft.

Xbox One Release Date And Price Revealed
The Gizmo Doctor

Microsoft has released some crucial details about its new Xbox One entertainment system, when you can buy it and how much it’s going to cost. The system, which Microsoft is touting as the ultimate all-in-one entertainment system built for the 21st century living room, will arrive in November – just in time for the Christmas shopping season. It won’t come cheap, The Xbox One launch bundle will be priced at $499 in the U.S. Each system will include an Xbox One console – which features a 500 GB hard drive, Blu-ray player and built-in WiFi – the new Kinect, an Xbox One wireless controller and a free 14-day-trial of Xbox Live Gold.

Nokia working on a quad core Lumia : Report
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E3 2013
The Carousel Podcast
E3 2013, parte 1: o conturbado início da próxima geração de vídeo games
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Microsoft on what defines a next-gen gam
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Where the Hell is Gaming Going?
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My most anticipated game is…
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… The Evil Within! Finally a new and original IP that seeks to bring survival horror games back on the radar. I’ve been craving a good horror game ever since Resident Evil 3 and those golden days. And now it looks as if I will be getting just that. Check out this masterful trailer for the game, and tell me you don’t love the theme. I dare ya. Any horror fan will be very happy with that trailer. But wait, there’s also gameplay showing how perfect it is. I’ve never seen a horror game that has managed to create that tense of a mood simply by using slow opening doors. I have a feeling I will be jumping out of my couch numerous times from this game and be frightened to a near heart attack state. It is without a doubt my most anticipated game for the consoles. I can’t wait to get it for PlayStation 4. This game also takes my most impressive game of E3 award. It looks so freaking terrifying. Can’t wait.

VMware release a deploy guide for deploying VMware Horizon View 5.2 with Microsoft Lync 2013
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Tony Huynh, Product Management End-User Computing posted that VMware has released a deployment guide for installation VMware Horizon View 5.2 with Microsoft Lync 2013 VMware are pleasured to announce that the VMware Horizon View 5.2 Microsoft Lync 2013 VDI Client Installation/Configuration Guide is now publicly available. The document provides a step-by-step guide on how to deploy a Microsoft Lync 2013 client on a VMware Horizon View desktop along with a Lync VDI plugin on a Windows client. By doing so, customers can leverage the power of the Lync VDI plugin to make rich voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) and videoconferencing calls without negatively affecting the datacenter server or network. The document will help partners and customers understand and avoid some common mistakes when deploying the Microsoft Lync 2013 client and Lync VDI plugin with Horizon View desktops. Some common pitfalls when deploying the Lync 2013 client and Lync VDI plugin include: Knowing what is and is not

Addition? More like a tumor…
The Start Button Review

Are you curious as to why the Xbox One (silly name) is so expensive? Just think about that added eyesore that’s on top of it. The Kinect. The all seeing eye. Of course, you can turn it off but you lose all those added features that Microsoft threw in your face. Smartglass and blah. I will have more to say about this in the coming days but know this. Microsoft is going to have to really step it up a notch this video game season.

Skype video messaging now available on all devices except Windows Phone
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Skype video messaging is now out of beta and available on all devices except Windows Phone. Skype video messaging lets users record videos of up to three minutes and send them to other users, even if they are offline. The recipient can play the video when they log in and record their own video to reply. During the beta, users without a premium subscription were limited to recording only 20 videos. Now, all users can record as many videos as they like for free. Interested in learning more? See the Skype blog here.

Postmortem: Xbox One at E3
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So the presentations have come and went at E3 and the gaming community has declared a winner for the next console wars… SONY and the PS4 It has the price, the games, and most importantly its for gamers. The Xbox One on the other hand is an evil black box filled with DRM and Big Brother software and comes with Kinect which no one uses. And that was E3 thanks for coming. Still here? Good.  Now that we have gotten the fanboy mess out of the way we can get down to it. In a lot of ways the reception to the Xbox One was never going to be positive. It was never going to win E3. The consoles strengths are not going to be evident until long after its release. SONY on the other hand delivered what gamers say they wanted; a console with better specs than the last one for a cheap price and acts like a console has always acted. The Xbox One is not the device hardcore gamers were looking for. And Microsoft or really Xbox head Don Mattrick hasn’t really helped their cause. Mattrick 54 seco

SAL
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The Microsoft source-code annotation language (SAL). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh916383.aspx

XBOX ONE AND THE DEATH OF OWNERSHIP (Jimquisition)
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      Well, Microsoft went and did it. It took the step publishers have fantasized over for years, and destroyed the concept of videogame ownership. Never one to shy away from controversy, the irrepressible Jim Sterling delivers a scathing — yet always informed and insightful — rant about whatever aspect of the gaming industry is annoying him that week. Watch the next episode of Jimquisition a week early, only on The Escapist. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Sub2Escapist

Microsoft 70-647 exam practice questions and answers
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