news|Apr 14, 2015

The Fight for Net Neutrality Begins… Again

After releasing the new Net Neutrality Rules yesterday, the FCC has come under immediate legal action by lobbyists supporting cable and wireless providers. The FCC released their new Net Neutrality rules to the Federal Register yesterday and one day later the legal battle has begun.  The CTIA, a lobbyist organization for the wireless industry has…
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News|Apr 9, 2015

Amazon Unleashes New Cloud Offerings at AWS Summit

Amazon has announced several new cloud services during their AWS Summit as well as some new features on existing cloud services. Today’s AWS Summit Keynote included announcements for four new cloud services; Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Amazon Machine Learning, AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps, and Amazon Workspaces Application Manager.  They also showcased new features for EC2 including…
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news|Apr 8, 2015

Microsoft Announces New Windows Server Features for Containers

Microsoft announced today Hyper-V Container support to allow virtualization of Docker containers as well as a new barebones version of Windows Server called Nano Server. Microsoft’s Server and Cloud Blog announced new features for Windows Server 2016 that adds further support for the Docker container application virtualization platform.  Docker is a platform for running individual…
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wintellect-blogs|Apr 7, 2015

Why Should You Attend Codestock?

Codestock? If you aren’t familiar with Codestock, then you should be, especially if you live anywhere in the southeast. Codestock is a regional tech conference hosted in Knoxville, TN, and has been going on since 2007. It is consistently a great conference with incredible speakers and technical content at a very reasonable price. Ok, so…
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survey|Apr 2, 2015

Will You Upgrade to Windows 10?

With Windows 10 right around the corner, Microsoft is pushing to get everybody upgraded to their newest OS.  Will all of the free licensing and new features be enough to get you to switch?  Cast your vote in our poll now! [poll id=61]
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news|Apr 1, 2015

Microsoft Announces New Simpler Product Lineup for Visual Studio 2015

Microsoft has announced the new model for Visual Studio editions which includes combining the Ultimate and Premium editions into a single less expensive Enterprise Edition. Microsoft announced on their Visual Studio blog the product model for the upcoming Visual Studio 2015 development tools.  The big news is that they are combining the Ultimate Edition and…
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news|Mar 30, 2015

Microsoft Gives a Peek Into Visual Studio’s Future

Microsoft has posted a list of upcoming features currently in development for Visual Studio 2015 as well as possibly older versions.  While the items don’t include dates they do show a breadth of features and a continued emphasis on supporting applications beyond Windows. Microsoft’s Visual Studio Blog is giving readers a view into the work…
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How To|Mar 26, 2015

Four Steps to Building Your First Web App with Azure App Service

One of the best things about Windows Azure, or perhaps one of the most confusing, is that there are many ways to accomplish a task.  In this post I’ve attempted to describe what I believe to be the shortest path to a working Web App using Microsoft’s recently announced App Service.  This version doesn’t require…
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news|Mar 24, 2015

Microsoft Announces New Azure App Service

Microsoft is announcing Azure App Service today, a consolidation of existing Website and Mobile services as well as some exciting new services for workflows and APIs. Microsoft is making it easier to build apps for any device on their Azure cloud service by consolidating several existing services into a unified model called Azure App Services.  Azure…
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