Posts Tagged ‘windows 8’

When I’m not delving into Microsoft technologies, I enjoy making music. A Christmas gift that I received turned out to be an unlikely trigger to make me think about usability. That gift was a book with transcriptions of some popular sax solos and included Money by Pink Floyd. This song is a bit unique in […]

Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell 3.0 offer thousands of new cmdlets to make any scripter happy. One set of cmdlets had me intrigued when I first heard about them. The cmdlets in the storage module interested me because frequently I would have to deploy a bunch of new Exchange servers and depending on the design […]

The Surface Pro pricing details were released recently and with little fanfare.  The Pro model is essentially an expensive Ultrabook that is packaged as a tablet.  The advantages of the Pro model are backwards compatibility with all pre-existing Windows software and more powerful hardware.  Those advantages are going to cost about $500 and half of […]

I am sure you are familiar with the old holiday tune, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”  My favorite rendition as a child was by John Denver and the Muppets.  We had the record- yes, actual vinyl- and would play it over and over again while decorating the Christmas tree.  Growing up, I never really knew what was […]

 Recently (prior to SharePoint 2013 going RTM), Perficient Microsoft hosted their semi-annual Hackathon focusing on the new SharePoint 2013 App Model. We had 6 teams compete (one team was entirely remote with not a single person in the same room, ah the power of Lync!), and I was so amazed by the wide variety of […]

Windows 8 – Hibernation Option Missing?   Enable Hibernation in Windows 8 If you’re a frequent traveler like me, who uses ‘Hibernate’ to save on battery life when not using your device – this article is for you!   For some reason Hibernate is not a choice when you go to shut-down your Windows 8 […]

Enabling Hyper-V Manager in Windows 8 Enterprise, to do this is almost like installing features in a Server OS.

Overview I’ll start off by mentioning that I’ve been using the Surface as my only computer now for the last 4 weeks. No laptop, no desktop. It’s my work computer, my home computer, my tablet and of course my mobile computing platform. In fact, I’ve composed most of this blog post with the Surface on a […]

So I was talking to a colleague of mine, and we were trying to decide if we wanted to run Server 2012 or Windows 8 Enterprise on our laptops. We had a few issues on doing this. Not sure what OS we wanted to run. Not sure all of our current software, will run on […]

I have had a few days to recover from the last 10 days of launches, releases, announcements and presentations from Microsoft and after catching up from the sleep deprivation, I have had an epiphany. Everything you knew about Microsoft has not changed but everything you knew about Microsoft has been turned upside-down. First let’s look […]

Part I: Philosophical Differences The new Microsoft Surface runs Windows RT, a curious product.  It is basically a stripped down version of Windows 8, re-engineered to work on the mobile, low power ARM architecture.  Apple’s iOS and Mac OSX are the closest comparisons to the new Windows Operating Systems. Microsoft has played to their strength by scaling […]

I’m excited to share that Perficient colleague Kyle Burns has authored a book entitled “Beginning Windows 8 Application Development – XAML Edition.”  From the press release, which can be read here This book provides information technology professionals guidance on how to develop on Microsoft’s newest platform – Windows 8. “As the world becomes more connected, […]