Mark Michelet's Microsoft Platform Blog
Check out Snip from Office Mix!
Great tool I started using today. Designed to replace the snipping tool, it grabs screenshots but...
Author: markmic Date: 08/27/2015
Updated list of Free Microsoft eBooks posted
Thanks Eric!...
Author: markmic Date: 07/08/2015
Academics invited to create new Microsoft HoloLens experiences
From the Microsoft Research Connections blog yesterday:...
Author: markmic Date: 07/07/2015
Windows 10 Rollout plan
With about 4 weeks to go before Windows 10 General Availability, Terry Myerson just authored this...
Author: markmic Date: 07/02/2015
The future of End User Programming
The bar for creating your own applications keeps getting lower. Can you create a PowerPoint...
Author: markmic Date: 07/02/2015
Office 365 Deployment Center and Customer Success Center
Two more Office 365 resources I often point my customers to that they find useful: Accelerate...
Author: markmic Date: 07/02/2015
Office 365 Adoption Kit for Healthcare
This is a great resource for our Healthcare customers:...
Author: markmic Date: 07/02/2015
Preview of New Skype for Business Services in Office 365
In March, 2015, we announced our intention to deliver a full set of Skype for Business voice and...
Author: markmic Date: 07/01/2015
July Microsoft Technology Center Studio Virtual Events - The Trusted Cloud Series
You have questions. We have answers. Join us live in July. Cloud Services can help companies be more...
Author: markmic Date: 07/01/2015
Download Microsoft Azure (IaaS) Cost Estimator Tool from Official Microsoft Download Center
Great tool for folks evaluating IaaS workloads for Azure was released to web last week:...
Author: markmic Date: 08/11/2014
First Person Hyperlapse Videos
GoPro fans will love this goodness coming out of Microsoft Research. Interesting uses for this in...
Author: markmic Date: 08/11/2014
10 good Windows 8 tablets
Informative article by James Kendrick on ZDNet 10 good Windows 8 tablets
Author: markmic Date: 03/22/2014
Check Out This Video To Know About Power Of Windows RT For The Enterprise Users
Michael Niehaus gave a great overview at TechEd last week on how the improvements in Windows 8.1 may...
Author: markmic Date: 06/10/2013
Windows Server 2012 R2 bulks up on storage and networking
Author: markmic Date: 06/06/2013
New Video Takes You on a Tour of Windows 8.1
Check it out at:...
Author: markmic Date: 06/06/2013
Microsoft Demonstrates Immersive IllumiRoom Experience
This is pretty cool stuff. Starting in gaming (as we did with Kinect), but I can see applications...
Author: markmic Date: 04/30/2013
E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies
Great TechNet Wiki post on free ebooks:...
Author: markmic Date: 04/03/2013
Are you smarter than a 5th grader in creating Hyper-V virtual machine and installing Windows Server 2012?
Another video just for fun :)...
Author: markmic Date: 03/19/2013
Surface Pro Hijinks: The Video - Building Clouds
This is just plain fun :)...
Author: markmic Date: 03/12/2013
Surface Pro releases February 9th!
Announced today:...
Author: markmic Date: 01/22/2013
Acer Reduces Data Center Costs by $600,000 a Year with Hyper-V
Great Case Study from a VMware switcher:...
Author: markmic Date: 01/22/2013
Windows Azure Benchmarks Show Top Performance for Big Compute
This was an interesting read:...
Author: markmic Date: 11/15/2012
Disclosures from SQL PASS Summit 2012
New in-memory database capability (code named “Hekaton”) SQL Server 2012 PDW SQL Server...
Author: markmic Date: 11/14/2012
You’re running out of excuses to not try Microsoft Windows Azure
Interesting take from Forrester on ZDNet:...
Author: markmic Date: 11/12/2012
Ford And Microsoft Deliver Their 5 Millionth SYNC-Enabled Vehicle
Big milestone this week with Ford:...
Author: markmic Date: 11/08/2012
The Register Takes Another Look at Windows Server 2012
The Register Takes Another Look at Windows Server 2012 and likes what they see with callouts about:...
Author: markmic Date: 11/05/2012
Windows 8 Brings Security, Collaboration Features for Health Care
Interesting read from eWeek for Health Care organizations:...
Author: markmic Date: 11/01/2012
Microsoft Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire StorSimple
Interesting news on the Azure Storage front. StorSimple created an appliance that you can drop into...
Author: markmic Date: 11/01/2012
My next phone :)
https://cnettv.cnet.com/htc-windows-phone-8x-winner/9742-1_53-50134144.html
Author: markmic Date: 10/31/2012
Microsoft's Windows Phone 8: What's new for business users
We launched Windows Phone 8 on Monday (right on the heels of Windows 8), and carriers will start...
Author: markmic Date: 10/31/2012
Microsoft eBook Gallery
Here's another great link to a bunch of FREE Microsoft eBooks:...
Author: markmic Date: 10/28/2012
Windows 8 PCs review on CNET
This article does a good job reviewing a bunch of the new Windows 8 PCs in one place:...
Author: markmic Date: 10/28/2012
Microsoft 30th Annual Employee Giving Campaign
Microsoft celebrates their 30th Giving Campaign and announces that since the campaign began,...
Author: markmic Date: 10/19/2012
ZDNet: Windows 8 Tablets: The most successful tablets ever
https://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-tablets-the-most-successful-tablets-ever-7000005805/
Author: markmic Date: 10/19/2012
Microsoft Surface goes up for sale on the Microsoft Store!
Pre-ordered mine today :) https://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US
Author: markmic Date: 10/16/2012
Network World: You might be surprised at which Web browser aced this security test...
https://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/092712-web-browser-microsoft-security-262850.html
Author: markmic Date: 10/04/2012
CIO Magazine: Windows 8 Finally Makes 'Windows' Make Sense
Interesting read: https://www.cio.com/article/716901/Windows_8_Finally_Makes_Windows_Make_Sense
Author: markmic Date: 10/04/2012
Bing It On Challenge tops 5 million hits
In a blind test of search results, users preferred Bing over Google 2:1...
Author: markmic Date: 10/03/2012
Free Microsoft eBooks!
I ran across this post from Eric Ligman a couple of months ago that I thought could prove useful to...
Author: markmic Date: 10/03/2012
Microsoft Hyper-V Keeps Pushing On VMware
With Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V brings improved virtual machine scalability and performance,...
Author: markmic Date: 10/03/2012
Many Windows 8 Tablets Will Sport a Keyboard
Interesting article from the Technology Review at MIT:...
Author: markmic Date: 10/02/2012
Its Launch Season!
I've been delinquent on posts recently - it is a BUSY and EXCITING time for Microsoft and our...
Author: markmic Date: 10/02/2012
This is my next: Windows 8
David captures my sentiments exactly! (Except I don't have a Mac to replace :))...
Author: markmic Date: 08/16/2012
Skydrive Pro
I am really excited about where we are taking Office 2013. One of the most interesting pieces of it...
Author: markmic Date: 08/16/2012
Microsoft Gives Windows a Clean Sweep
Good overview of our Signature PC program from Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal:...
Author: markmic Date: 05/17/2012
Windows Server 8 review in the Register
I think this is my favorite Windows Server 8 quote so far: “Technologies that last year were...
Author: markmic Date: 03/15/2012
Windows Server "8" Beta
We are very excited for the Windows Server “8” beta release this week and the wave of...
Author: markmic Date: 03/02/2012
Windows 8 on ARM update
Very thorough and interesting post by Steven Sinofsky on the Building Windows blog yesterday...
Author: markmic Date: 02/10/2012
Windows 8 tablets on Wired.com
This was an interesting read: https://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/windows-8-tablets-world/
Author: markmic Date: 01/18/2012