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Microsoft and Amazon bring together Alexa and Cortana

Microsoft and Amazon announced today that the Amazon Echo will be able to talk to Microsoft Cortana AI (Artificial Intelligence) Platform. Amazons very popular AI platform Alexa will be able to talk to Cortana, and Cortana will be able to talk to Alexa. Microsoft CEO...

August 30, 2017 admin Microsoft Comments Off

Microsoft Is Now A Linux Company

We start out the show talking about a lot of news coming out of the Microsoft camp. We talk about consumer reports and the Microsoft Surface. We talk about Netflix news and David Letterman returning to late night on Netflix. Google has a new messenger...

August 11, 2017 admin Podcast Comments Off

Microsoft News Week

Today we get into the new podcast schedule and what where doing with our premium membership. We get into tech Black Friday Sales and news of the week lots of Microsoft News. We get into Apple and Microsoft partnership. Much Much more….. Microsoft Selling Nokie...

November 30, 2016 admin Podcast Comments Off

Apple Envy

This week on the show we go into past events the Windows 10 event, Apple Macbook event and Office 365 event. We talk about Steve Ballmer and his Apple Envy and how Microsoft dropped the ball on the Windows phone. We talk about Apple and...

November 4, 2016 admin Podcast Comments Off

Microsoft HoloLens Pricing Them Out VR Business

Virtual Reality or VR is defiantly the hot item in tech right now and probably the hot item for the holiday buying season. Google release their mobile VR head set last week called Daydream at a price point of $79. Looking at the product it...

October 17, 2016 admin Microsoft Comments Off

Apple Google Facebook The Messenger War

It’s amazing to me at times in tech the tech world what’s old is now new again just in a different way. For example in the 70’s and 80’s everything was terminals and dial up modems connecting to a mainframe computer hosted at data center....

October 12, 2016 admin Google, Internet, Microsoft Comments Off

Idea Man By Paul Allen

Idea Man By Paul Allen Idea Man by Paul Allen was a good book published in 2011 by Portfolio publishing. The book goes through Allen’s life from his early year’s right up to when the book was published in 2011. The book talks both about...

August 10, 2016 admin Book Reviews Comments Off

Preparing for the future from Windows XP to Windows 8

Most systems administrators by now will already know that April 8th is the day when Microsoft will cease to provide support for any systems that are operating on Windows XP. Many people will have already upgraded to a newer version of Windows, or have simply...

April 3, 2014 admin Microsoft Comments Off

Microsoft Extends Updates For Windows XP Security Products

Microsoft announced it will continue to provide updates to its security products (antimalware engine and signatures) for Windows XP users through July 14, 2015. Previously, the company said: “As a result, after April 8, 2014, technical assistance for Windows XP will no longer be available,...