How Microsoft wants to dominate virtual reality

This new team studying the surface may have been the star of the last show Wednesday from Microsoft, but history has not been enough attention was how Microsoft extends its plans for platforms augmented reality and virtual time believing that mark the beginning of a new era of computing.

Next year Microsoft will release a free upgrade to Windows 10 calls the update of the creators, including the possibility of connecting a virtual reality helmet on your PC. Helmets are also relatively cheap, from $ 299. They will be built by all major PC manufacturers such as Dell, Lenovo and Asus.

 But they are more than just affordable helmets. They also have features that still can not get into the high-end headphones as Oculus Rift Facebook, which costs $ 599. Specifically, helmets are able to provide free range of motion without an external camera that follows.

Alex Kipman, head of HoloLens and other projects of virtual and augmented reality Microsoft, told Business Insider in an interview last week that the new portfolio of virtual reality helmets will be the "most powerful and enveloping helmets more affordable price."

The latter about accessibility is an important caveat, of course. While new helmets Dell, Lenovo, and the rest can not match the Oculus Rift, in terms of screen quality, which will be immediately more accessible and more capable in some respects.

 At this time, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive require very powerful computers that can cost $ 1,000 or more. But the windows 10 helmets will be able to run on personal computers that cost about $ 500. In many cases, if you have a computer that can run Windows 10, which has a team working with VR.

This is a great advantage. VR is still in its infancy and is not accessible to many people. But the opening of a large part of the ecosystem of Windows with affordable VR helmets could give a major boost.

Then there is monitoring. Kipman bragged how it will be an important new helmets active competition. Microsoft will stop VR manufacturers use the same integrated control found in HoloLens town, which is completely untethered from a PC and can "analyze" their environment so you can move freely VR. While the Oculus Rift live and a camera or laser transmitters in your room this is installed, Windows helmets will be able to do so without an external accessory and several hundred dollars cheaper. Facebook briefly joked his own Oculus Rift with this "inside out" followed, but is still in the early stages. Microsoft will be ready next spring.

With a Windows update, Microsoft will jump immediately much of its support from VR. It will be the best, most affordable to the exclusive VR experience and puts the company in a position to dominate the category.

70-411 Exam Question No 59

Question No 59:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2012 R2. On all of the domain controllers, Windows is installed in C:\Windows and the Active Directory database is located in D:\Windows\NTDS\. All of the domain controllers have a third-party application installed. The operating system fails to recognize that the application is compatible with domain controller cloning. You verify with the application vendor that the application supports domain controller cloning. You need to prepare a domain controller for cloning. What should you do?

A. In D:\Windows\NTDS\, create an XML file named DCCloneConfig.xml and add the application
information to the file.
B. In the root of a USB flash drive, add the application information to an XML file named
DefaultDCCIoneAllowList.xml.
C. In D:\Windows\NTDS\, create an XML file named CustomDCCloneAllowList.xml and add the application information to the file.
D. In C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Actionfiles\, add the application information to an XML file named Respecialize.xml.

Answer: C

Microsoft employees love Satya Nadella a lot more than they did Steve Ballmer

A successful business is a productive, and Microsoft employees are very happy, found firm UBS analysts said in a report in early October.

In fact, Microsoft is happier than Apple for the first time since UBS started following the feeling of employees in 2012. The study uses data to track all Glassdoor approval CEO of opportunities for global company advance the overall outlook of the company.

"The overall results support our thesis that MSFT is once again a destination for top talent in technology, with annual evaluations improve continuously and with peers," writes UBS.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella looks particularly good, calculating the ratio. In late 2013, the last days of the reign of former CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft gave a rating of 51% for CEO approval. Nadella took over in February 2014, and CEO approval rating hit 88% by the end of 2015.

This year is not over yet, but now Microsoft makes about 10% higher employee satisfaction in the industry average, UBS said, edges out Apple.

Meanwhile, LinkedIn, Microsoft bought in a blockbuster $ 26.2 trillion in early 2016 agreement, they are not as happy as it used to be.

LinkedIn uses for the best high-tech company in the ranking UBS, with satisfaction levels of 17% above average, and an approval rate of 95% for the CEO Jeff Weiner. not bad, and even 3, but a disappointing letdown for the social network company - Since the agreement, which is up to 11% higher and a rate of 85% CEO approval was announced.

Under Nadella, Microsoft itself has refocused on providing services and tools through a subscription model, even if it means providing products for enemies once as iPhone, Android Apple google, or system Linux operating.