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Creating VM Clones in Microsoft Hyper-V

April 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
VM Cloning

If you’re a virtual machine freak like me, then you’ve most likely upgraded to Windows 8 Pro already due to its awesome built in Hyper-V client! No longer do you need to install Windows Server 2012 or the standalone hypervisor operating system just to be able to build your virtual machine infrastructure on your home [...]

Filed Under: Microsoft, Virtualization

OpenPGP in Outlook with gpg4o

February 5, 2013 By 3 Comments
gpg40

It seems that getting a free OpenPGP solution to work with the Microsoft Outlook email client is harder than I thought it would be. The only thing I could dig up was the Outlook Privacy Plugin, which I wrote extensively about here in this article. At the time I wrote that article, the plugin version [...]

Filed Under: Emails, Microsoft, Security

Why I Can’t Buy the Nokia Lumia 920 Even if I Like It!

November 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
Nokia Lumia 920

I was seriously so excited about Microsoft’s re-entry into the mobile phone market with their Windows Phone 8 (WP8) operating system. In fact, I recently tweeted that I’ve finally made up my mind and decided to go with the new phone being as my contract is about to be up. Now, I’m no rock star [...]

Filed Under: Hardwares, Microsoft

What Can Windows 8 Do For You?

May 29, 2012 By 5 Comments
Building Windows 8

At the time of this writing, Microsoft is getting ready to release the Windows 8 Release Candidate preview. This is a very important release because it gives the consumers a chance to play with an almost-complete version of their newest operating system. Of course, there still could be changes made and features added/removed but for [...]

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Filed Under: Microsoft, Windows 8

A Bing Wallpaper a Day!

May 8, 2012 By 2 Comments
Bing Desktop

A good online buddy of mine and frequent visitor and commenter on AnotherWindowsBlog, Ankur, has written a blog post at TechEveryTime where I first took notice of Microsoft’s new Bing Desktop utility. This utility has been long in the making. Finally, users will have a chance to dynamically set their desktop wallpaper to match that [...]

Filed Under: Freewares, Microsoft

Microsoft SkyDrive Overview

May 2, 2012 By 2 Comments
Skydrive

It seems like only yesterday that Dropbox could comfortably sit back and dominate the online storage world with their awesome file syncing service. Sure, there were a few others out there that offered similar services but as far as ease of use and features, Dropbox in my opinion was the best. They offered 2GB of [...]

Filed Under: Microsoft, Online Service, Productivity