Microsoft Expands in Google's Turf

Microsoft has its roots in Silicon Valley.

The tech giant based in Washington, said it would buy and the expansion of the real estate was leased for the past 15 years in the court of Mountain View Google.

The plan is to significantly redesign the installation of five buildings, to be able to accommodate additional employees 500-1000.

Microsoft currently has about 2,000 people working in a variety of places in the Bay region, which has had a presence since 1981.

The teams in the region, Microsoft is working on projects including Xbox, Outlook, Skype and Yammer.

The provision of a new campus artist released by the company shows a green compound with an expansive courtyard and at least one living roof.

The company still has to go through the authorization process in Mountain View, and construction is not likely to begin before 2017 and take three years to complete, Microsoft spokesman Emily Horn said.

It is hard not to read a lot of symbolism in the new real estate Microsoft.

In the fall of 2014, the company dismissed 160 employees based Bay Area through further cuts in its workforce related to broader restructuring of the company.

But guided by the Director-General Satya Nadella, who took over in February 2014, Microsoft has made a remarkable recovery from its roots as a solitary giant software sales to be a mobile by the company and the first cloud-approved associations with Silicon Valley companies such as Salesforce and Box.

Leveraging its presence in Silicon Valley also help Microsoft compete for engineering talent that may not want to move to the Pacific Northwest.

The technology talent war is heating up because of the demand not only of existing technology giants and startups, but also the increasing number of automakers - including Ford and Toyota - are expanding their outposts in this technology -House hot as they race to develop autonomous vehicles.

Microsoft is not the only high-tech company that plans to build emblematic facilities in Silicon Valley.

Facebook employees last year to a new site, designed by Frank Gehry moved, while Google is making plans to build a new mini-city, near your current Googleplex.

But futuristic Apple takes the cake: the cash-rich company has been busy building a new office oval round, not far from its current location near Cupertino.

70-411 Exam Question No 37

Question No 37:

Your network contains a Hyper-V host named Server1 that hosts 20 virtual machines. You need to view the amount of memory resources and processor resources each virtual machine uses currently. Which tool should you use on Server1?

A. Hyper-V Manager
B. Task Manager
C. Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM)
D. Resource Monitor

Answer: A

Microsoft Slashes Windows 7 And Windows 8 Support

You think that your copy of Windows 7 supports up to 2020? You think that your copy of Windows 8 is supported until 2023? You may want to think again because Microsoft MSFT -4.16% announced radical changes in the way we will treat users of both operating systems ...

Speaking on his blog of Windows, Microsoft announced that it will stop now supports installations of Windows 7 or Windows 8 whether new or upgraded computers running the latest chips from Intel INTC -10.34% -4.44 AMD or Qualcomm QCOM %. Specifically listed as "Kaby Lake '(Intel), Bristol canto' (AMD) and Qualcomm '8996' (the basis for the Snapdragon 820). Between them, these chips dominate sales of all new desktops, laptops, tablets and hybrids in 2016.

In fact, Microsoft goes further because it also refused to support Windows 7 and Windows 8 in the current generation of Intel processors Skylake ', with the exception of a "list of specific new devices Skylake". This list includes the Dell Latitude XPS 12 and 13;. HP EliteBook Folio and G3 and T460s Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon and press Even these devices will last 18 months ending July 17, 2017.

Yes, you read that right: Microsoft violated 31-year history of Windows, by refusing to fulfill its life cycle Windows promised unless users want older hardware. Improve your Windows 7 or Windows 8 exists for these chipsets or buy new hardware and install Windows 7 or Windows 8 on it and the official dates of the life cycle of Windows means nothing.

70-411 Exam Question No 36

Question No 36:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a member server named Server1. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2. You need to collect the error events from all of the servers on Server1. The solution must ensure that when new servers are added to the domain, their error events are collected automatically on Server1. Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. (Choose two.)

A. On Server1, create a collector initiated subscription.
B. On Server1, create a source computer initiated subscription.
C. From a Group Policy object (GPO), configure the Configure target Subscription Manager setting.
D. From a Group Policy object (GPO), configure the Configure forwarder resource usage setting.

Answer: B, C

Microsoft, Samsung showcase smart home tech

Collaboration between companies expands to IoT.
Microsoft announced a partnership with Samsung to develop smart home devices operating on Windows 10.
During the keynote address at CES 2016 Samsung Las Vegas, Microsoft EVP president Terry Myerson Samsung and CMO Dr. Won-Pyo Hong IoT joined to describe the strategy of Microsoft.

A demonstration showed the IO interoperability between virtual assistant to 10 supported Samsung devices IO Cortana and Windows.

At the event, Windows Cortana was called by the voice to request the status of a chip of Samsung washing machine, and was invited to create graphs showing the use of the device for each household member.
"With Samsung, we are very pleased to have this shared vision of millions of devices and the things that communicate via open protocols and open standards," Myerson said.

Dr. Hong said that the associations "are the foundation of success IoT," and he was proud to have Microsoft on board his new partner the IO.

The announcement of this partnership follows the launch last December of the versions of the IO-lists Microsoft Windows 10, allowing manufacturers to design and implement the integration between hardware and the operating system.

70-411 Exam Question No 35

Question No 35:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a serve named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2008 R2. You plan to test Windows Server 2012 R2 by using native-boot virtual hard disks (VHDs). You attach a new VHD to Server1. You need to install Windows Server 2012 R2 in the VHD. What should you do?

A. Run imagex.exe and specify the /append parameter.
B. Run dism.exe and specify the /apply-image parameter.
C. Run imagex.exe and specify the /export parameter.
D. Run dism.exe and specify the /append-image parameter.

Answer: B

Microsoft CEO Admits Their Smartphone Market Share Is Unsustainable

The market share of Microsoft in the mobile phone market is currently very, very small, dwarfed by the likes of iOS and Android. The company has tried all sorts of ways to try to earn a spot, but it certainly seems to be an uphill battle, and recently in an interview with BuzzFeed, CEO Satya Nadella the company admitted that their participation is unsustainable.

Gartner's latest figures show that the market share of Microsoft's mobile is very low 1.7%. However, Nadella believes that success is more than market share numbers. According Nadella, "I think we do a disservice if we measure our success by just looking:? What is the market share of HoloLens What is the market share of the Xbox What share of the PC market, what proportion of our phones on the market? "

Nadella also adds that ultimately what Microsoft intends to create a world in which the device is less important than trying to access services, which we assume is what is Microsoft Windows 10, especially now offers a kind of unified experience between desktop and mobile version.

According to him, "Go back to what I said about the mobility experience. If you think about it more as a graph, these devices [] are all nodes. Sometimes, you use all these devices ... sometimes they used only one or two of our aircraft and other platforms - so be it, but we want to ensure we are to complete the experience of all these devices. ".