It is a curious fact of our digital lives that, despite rapid technological progress and the ultra-sophisticated gadgets now in every pocket and office, one of the most basic aspects of user interaction—how we set up and personalize our devices—remains as disjointed, obscure, and inefficient as...
Microsoft 365 (M365) has become the cornerstone of digital transformation in modern business, evolving from a suite of productivity tools into the brain of operational agility, security, and innovation. As organizations demand more value, scalability, and seamless security from their digital...
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Microsoft is embarking on one of its most ambitious undertakings in recent years: eliminating confusion around USB-C ports and their capabilities on Windows PCs with the roll-out of rigorous new standards through its updated Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP). No longer will users...
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Two decades ago, a wave of optimism swept through the open-source and digital rights communities with the formal approval of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a standard for office documents. The year was 2005, and the concept of open, vendor-neutral file formats seemed poised to reshape not...
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In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, ensuring a reliable power supply is as crucial for vast data centers as it is for the everyday consumer. Recent discussions in the energy sector—exemplified by Utility Dive’s article How to reduce large load speculation? Standardize the interconnection...
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I have a business wanting to change their server setup. Right now I have it so they each use RDP to connect to the server with their own user login. Which works fine by the way. They about 25 employees (25 workstations). What they don't like about it is one user installs a program and it is...
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We are pleased to announce XAML Standard, which is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms.
XAML Standard is a specification that defines a standard XAML vocabulary. With that vocabulary, frameworks that...
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Our organization has recently received a number of Tablet devices (over 100) which we require a standardized image to be deployed to them all, the obvious thing to this was to create a standard image using sysprep however when i run sysprep I get the message 'Sysprep was not able to validate...
By upgrading to Windows 7, Samsung Electronics standardizes operating systems, boosts efficiency and increases cost savings across offices.
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A simple plea (far beyond the remit of this forum).
I know that the windows universe is a rich and diverse one,
That's why I remain with it. Mostly, it's too good; unchained
as it is from the rigours of conformity & standardisation
that makes Apple corp's life so easy. & so godamned smug...