Microsoft confirms built-in Hyper-V containers are coming to Windows 10 testers soon

Another new feature in the 'Anniversary' update to Windows 10 will be built-in Hyper-V Container support, Microsoft officials are now confirming.

Microsoft is building support for Hyper-V containers into Windows 10 client, company officials publicly acknowledged late last week.

On the last day of its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft announced that -- as rumored last year -- container support is coming to Windows 10.

Microsoft officials said the feature will be opt-in in "upcoming flights" of Windows 10 for Windows Insiders. (I've seen a screen shot from one Insider, Daniel Gut, that indicates that container support is already an opt-in option in current Windows 10 Enterprise Insider builds, for what it's worth.)

To get access to containers in the test builds, Insiders will need to enable both the Containers and the Hyper-V features once they're available to Insiders testing Windows 10 Redstone 1, a k a the Windows 10 "Anniversary" update due out this summer.

From Microsoft's April 1 blog post:

Bringing Hyper-V Containers natively into Windows 10 ... "will further empower developers to build amazing cloud applications benefiting from native container capabilities right in Windows. Since Hyper-V Containers utilize their own instance of the Windows kernel, your container is truly a server container all the way down the kernel. Plus, with the flexibility of Windows container runtimes containers built on Windows 10 can be run on Windows Server 2016 as either Windows Server Containers or Hyper-V Containers."

Based on information from a Microsoft presentation at Build last week, these containers will support Nano Server only to start, though Windows Server Core support is still coming.

Nano Server offers Windows Server customers the option of running Windows Server stripped down to its smallest footprint. Nano Server is about 1/20th the size of Windows Server Core, and will consist only of the essential components (Hyper-V, Clustering, Networking, Storage, .Net, Core CLR) -- and no user interface.

Insight Into Information Technology in 3years

About a decade ago, there was lots of latest stuff that required to be created — local area network, directory servers, mail servers, company laptops — and lots of baby boomers who still required helped to switch into a processed computerized office. Those days are long gone.

Most of those technologies run themselves nowadays and don’t need lots of effort and time from IT professionals to deploy them and keep them running. IT professionals likewise pay lots less time doing repairs, maintenance, and user technical support. Replacement is the new support. In 2015, organizations can simply swap out their out-of-whack laptop computer, smartphone, or tablet to IT and straight off get a replacement device which will connect with the private cloud and/or public cloud and instantly transfer the user’s apps, settings, and data. A good insight into that is the introduction of Microsoft Office 365

Testing Microsoft Office 2013 and 365 with huge changes

If you’re shocked by the revelation that the retail editions of office 2013 can be costlier than their predecessors and is available with additional severe license restrictions, you haven’t been observant.
The retail editions of office 2013 contain some basic changes that go well on the far side easy changes within the license agreement. They basically alter the method we predict of desktop software package.

The biggest modification of all?

You cannot obtain Microsoft office, Microsoft’s flagship product, on removable media. You can’t even transfer offline installer files for the three retail editions of Office: Home and Student, Home and Business, and professional.

3 Outstanding Jobs in the Information Technology industry this year

There’s a broad concern that has settled over so many of the Information Technology profession in recent years. It’s a glaring distinction to situation simply over a decade ago. At the close of the 1990s, Information Technology professionals were the core of the ball.

The Information Technology labour shortage frequently made headlines and Information Technology professionals were ready to command glorious salaries by obtaining coaching and certification, job hopping, and, in several cases, being the sole qualified candidate for a key position during a thinly-stretched job market. At the time, it absolutely was delayed collectively of the professions of the longer term, wherever a lot of and a lot of of the most effective jobs would be migrating as computer-automated processes replaced manual ones.
Unfortunately, that concept of the future has vanished, or at least transformed into something totally different.

The glory days once Information Technology professionals may name their price disappeared once the year 2K crisis passed so the dot com collapse happened. Suddenly, corporations didn’t need as several coders on staff. Rapidly, there have been lot fewer start-ups shopping for servers and employing system administrators to run them.

New Wonder - Galaxy 7 Tab Plus in SA

Samsung has announced the availability of the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus tab, which uses the Android Honeycomb operating system and is powered by a 1.2GHz dual core processor.

Samsung has announced the launch of the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus - a portable, rich multimedia experience on a 7-inch display, the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus tablet packs power and productivity into a chic lightweight design.

“Samsung pioneered the seven-inch tablet market with the launch of the original Galaxy Tab 7”, marking an innovation milestone in the mobile industry,” said Paulo Ferreira, Head of Mobile Product and Business Solutions at Samsung SA. “Building on the success of the Galaxy Tab 7”, we’re now delighted to introduce the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus reloaded with enhanced portability, productivity and a richer multimedia experience.

The Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus runs the latest version of Google Android Honeycomb (3.2), enabling an easy and intuitive experience allowing users to do anything, anywhere – and do it all faster thanks to the 1.2GHz dual core processor

Silverlight 5 EVOLVES!!!

Better web experience

Microsoft has made available for download the gold version of Silverlight 5, this is its’  latest version of its browser plug-in and Web, desktop and mobile development platform
This latest version which people are saying is the last major release of Silverlight — will be supported by Microsoft until 2021 – So did Microsoft say — which is a much longer period of time than previous Silverlight releases have been supported.