Archives April 2015

The presentation will be about Microsoft Cloud services with a focus on Virtual Machines with Windows Server or Linux. It will cover essential concepts and tools for people who are new to Azure.

“If deploying an application requires a developer’s involvement, it’s not IaaS”

Take your laptop, if you have one, and activate a trial subscription for Azure, so you can join the global compute pool for breast cancer research.  (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/)

Date and time: April 25^th, 2015

Location: Polytechnic of Zagreb, Konavoska 2

Price: Free

Register for the event via the link below:

Agenda:

For the first time, Hrvoje Kusulja will be presenting on the Microsoft NetWork conference. It is the fifth edition of this event, and this year it will be held in Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The presentation will be about the possibilities of Office 365 Power BI solutions and their integration with on-premises SQL databases, including Microsoft SQL Server and other database engines like MySQL and IBM DB2.

It is a very useful presentation to those who have existing databases on which they’d like to apply various Business Intelligence scenarios.

Date and time: April 29^th, 2015

Location: Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Register for the conference via the link below:

About Hrvoje:

System engineer by profession. Information Technologies Graduate from Polytechnic of Zagreb; worked in parallel in his own company on system engineering tasks such as IBM Enterprise Systems, Microsoft solutions – Windows Server, Exchange, System Center, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure Cloud solutions, etc. Earned numerous Microsoft and IBM certifications, as well as various awards and honors from his high school and faculty. Mostly devoted to Cloud technologies and constantly perfecting himself in this field.

Hrvoje Kusulja, 3 PRO’s Chief Operating Officer, became a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Office 365. It is an award for prominent, independent community leaders who share their technical expertise related to Microsoft, and it is given for contributions over the previous year – especially for sharing knowledge within the technical community that utilizes Microsoft technologies.

Only Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 Update will be able upgrade to Windows 10 through the Windows Update service. Users with older editions will have to install the upgrade from a USB drive or DVD media, loaded with a disk image downloaded from Microsoft’s servers. It will not be possible to upgrade retired versions like Windows XP; Windows Vista will also not be upgradeable.

Windows 10 will use less storage space on your computer. Microsoft revealed information about a new compression algorithm for compressing system files that saves ~1.5 GB of storage for 32-bit and ~2.6 GB of storage for 64-bit Windows.

Also, a new build of Windows 10, 10049, is available at this time. With this release comes the new, awaited Project Spartan web browser.

You can download the Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10049 here.