Announcement from Microsoft
Discontinuing sales of the Extender module both sales and support. Read more from Victoria Yudin’s Blog (Thanks Victoria!!!)
Extender will revert back to eOne Solutions, the original developer of Extender, starting February 1, 2013.
I wonder why this move from Microsoft?
Operating system and software
The Nokia Lumia 920 runs the Windows Phone 8 operating system. As with other Lumia devices, the 920 includes Nokia-exclusive apps, like Nokia City Lens, an augmented reality software that gives dynamic information about users’ surroundings. Click here for Specifications.
Inductive charging
The phone can be recharged either physically or inductively using the Qi technology. Rather than requiring the use of a physical connection to the phone, this requires the phone to be placed upon a charging pad which, unlike a physical connector, hinders use of the phone while charging. The charging pad requires a separate power supply.
Processors, memory, and storage
The Lumia 920 has a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Krait, and a Qualcomm Adreno 225 GPU, and has 1 GB of system RAM
Nokia Lumia 920 comes with an internal storage capacity of 32 GB. Although Windows Phone 8 supports storage expansion using microSD cards, Lumia 920 does not support them.
Screen
The Lumia 920 has a 4.5-inch curved glass display running at WXGA (1280 × 768) resolution with an aspect ratio of 15:9 using enhanced IPS screen technology which Nokia calls “PureMotion HD+”. It has less than 9 ms average transition times, where conventional IPS LCDs have an average of 23 ms, which reduces motion blur.
Camera
The Lumia 920 has Nokia’s PureView technology on the rear camera, which Nokia claims to be the best currently available on any smartphone, capturing “five to 10 times more light than competitor devices” via a “floating lens technology that surpasses the optical image stabilization system of most digital SLRs.
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The Windows logo key 
also known as the Windows key, the home key, the meta key, the start key, MOD4, or the flag key is a keyboard key which was originally introduced on the Microsoft Natural keyboard before the release of Windows 95. This key became a standard key on PC keyboards.
Main Keyboard Shortcut to remember for Windows 8
: Toggle between Tile screen and the last accessed application + C: Access the charms bar + Tab: Access the Modern Desktop Taskbar + I: Access the Settings charm + K: Access the Devices charm + Q: Access the Apps Search screen + F: Access the Files Search screen + W: Access the Settings Search screen + X: Access the Windows Tools Menu + E: Open ComputerOther Keyboard Short Cuts
+ O: Lock screen orientation + H: Access the Share charm + P: Access the Second Screen bar + . : Move the screen split to the right + V: View all active Toasts/Notifications + PrtScrn: Takes a screenshot of the screen and automatically saves it in the Pictures folder as Screenshot + Enter: Launch Narrator + Z: Brings up the App Bar when you have a Modern Desktop App running + R: Open the Run dialog box + U: Open Ease of Access Center + 1..10: Launch a program pinned on the Taskbar in the position indicated by the number + B: Select the first item in the Notification Area and then use the arrow keys to cycle through the items Press Enter to open the selected item + T: Cycle through the items on the Taskbar + M: Minimize all windows + D: Show/Hide Desktop (minimize/restore all windows) + L: Lock computer + Up Arrow: Maximize current window + Down Arrow: Minimize/restore current window + Home: Minimize all but the current window + Left Arrow: Tile window on the left side of the screen + Right Arrow: Tile window on the right side of the screen + Shift + V: View all active Toasts/Notifications in reverse order + Shift + . : Move the screen split to the left + Shift + M: Restore all minimized windows + Shift + Up Arrow: Extend current window from the top to the bottom of the screen + Shift + Left/Right Arrow: Move the current window from one monitor to the next + Shift + 1..10: Launch a new instance of a program pinned on the Taskbar in the position indicated by the number + Ctrl + B: Access the program that is displaying a message in the Notification Area + Ctrl + 1..10: Access the last active instance of a program pinned on the Taskbar in the position indicated by the number + Ctrl + F: Open Find Computers dialog box+ Alt + 1..10: Access the Jump List of a program pinned on the Taskbar in the position indicated by the number + F1: Launch Windows Help and Support + Pause/Break: Open the System page
Windows 8 Version details
Unlike Windows Vista and Windows 7, there are no Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, or Ultimate editions
For general public, you need a Microsoft account, you can see all of the apps you bought from the Store and you can install any of those apps on up to five PCs.
Because Microsoft Windows 8 handles activation differently, the grace period has been eliminated. Microsoft has ditched the 30-day grace period, a trademark of Windows 7, in the retail copies of Windows .
For general public release, Microsoft requires a product key during setup because both Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro and the customers must enter a unique product key — a 25-character alpha-numeric string — to proceed during Windows 8 setup. If you cannot provide the key, the process stops in its tracks. The version installed depends on the key provided.
Windows 8 Enterprise, the version aims companies with volume license agreements, uses an entirely different mechanism for activation. Rather than ask the user for a key, it install the Windows 8 Enterprise and activates the KMS (Key Management Service) key that’s activates by an on-premises machine or a MAK key through internet.
Here, (MAKkey scenario) most of the time the system failed to activate the product key.
To activate it manually using MAK key,
OR
As if there aren’t enough scenarios, Microsoft’s free 90-day evaluation of Windows 8 Enterprise does not require a product key. As with the retail versions now available to some users, and that will go on sale Oct. 26,2012 the evaluation automatically activates if the PC has a live online connection. All the Software assurance users, Windows 8 RTM is available for download from their portal itself.
Windows 8 Release Preview is stable and has been thoroughly tested by Microsoft, but it’s not the finished product. Your PC could crash and you could lose important files. You should back up your data and you shouldn’t test Windows 8 Release Preview on your primary home or business PC. Install at your own risk. This copy is only for testing the OS. You can install the release preview from here. For detailed product and feature information, download the Windows 8 Release Preview Guide (available in English only).
Microsoft Store – For general public, you need a Microsoft account, you can see all of the apps you bought from the Store and you can install any of those apps on up to five PCs.
Enjoy!!!
Now you can create bootable USB for Windows 7 or Windows 8. Microsoft has released a new tool for this task to achieve
The advantage to following this process and creating bootable media is that it allows you to install Windows 7 without having to first run an existing operating system on your machine. If you change the boot order of drives in your computer’s BIOS, you can run the Windows 7 installation directly from your USB flash drive or from a DVD when you first turn your computer on.
System Requirements
Enjoy!!!
Ha ha ha… New OS released and we are now findings work arounds…
When you connect a VPN network through Windows 8, how to disconnect an incoming virtual private network (VPN) connection in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012.
New software release for Evoko room manager, that supports Office365 and Google Apps. Read the Blog
Enjoy!!!
Exchange 2013 preview release will subject to change when it reaches to RTM. Installing Exchange 2013 Preview is not for production environment.
Exchange 2013 preview is for simplicity of scale, hardware utilization, and failure isolation. With Exchange 2013 Preview, they reduced the number of server roles to two:
The Mailbox server includes all the traditional server components found in Exchange 2010
The Mailbox server handles all activity for a given mailbox. The Client Access server provides authentication, redirection, and proxy services.
The Client Access server itself doesn’t do any data rendering. It is a thin and stateless server. There is never anything queued or stored on the Client Access server.
The Client Access server offers all the usual client access protocols: HTTP, POP and IMAP, and SMTP.
Managed Store works with the Microsoft Exchange Replication service to manage mailbox databases, which continues to use Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) as the database engine. Exchange 2013 Preview includes significant changes to the mailbox database schema that provide many optimizations over previous versions of Exchange. In addition to these changes, the Microsoft Exchange Replication service is responsible for all service availability related to Mailbox servers. The architectural changes enable faster database failover and better physical disk failure handling.
The Managed Store is also integrated with the FAST search engine (the same search engine used by SharePoint 2013 Preview) to provide more robust indexing and searching.
No more Exchange Management Console (EMC) Administration is now performed using the new web-based Exchange Administration Center and the Exchange Management Shell (3.0)
All certificate management is performed on the Client Access server. The Mailbox server has a self-signed certificate installed by default. The Client Access server automatically trusts the self-signed certificate on the Exchange 2013 Preview Mailbox server, so clients will not receive warnings about a self-signed certificate not being trusted provided that the Exchange 2013 Preview Client Access server has a non-self-signed certificate from either a Windows certificate authority (CA) or a trusted third party.
Exchange 2013 Preview offers greater integration with SharePoint 2013 Preview and Lync 2013 Preview. Benefits of this enhanced integration include:
Public folders in Exchange 2013 Preview now take advantage of the existing high availability and storage technologies of the mailbox store. The public folder architecture uses specially designed mailboxes to store both the hierarchy and the public folder content. This new design also means that there is no longer a public folder database. Public folder replication now uses the continuous replication model. High availability for the hierarchy and content mailboxes is provided by the DAG. With this design, we’re moving away from a multi-master replication model to a single-master replication model.
Exchange 2013 Preview continues to make use of the database availability group (DAG) platform introduced in Exchange 2010 for both high availability and site resilience. Exchange 2013 Preview also includes enhancements to the DAG platform that improve manageability and reduce costs. These features include:
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The improvements to the Remote Connectivity Analyzer CAPTCHA experience. It was very annoying to have both password fields get blanked out if you got the challenge incorrect. While we can’t remove this “feature” completely, we hope the enhancements will make a big difference.
The latest version (V1.4) of the Remote Connectivity Analyzer has the following improvements:
We are using a new CAPTCHA service provided by an internal team!!! EHLO rocks again!!!
To know more, click here
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