{"id":16820,"date":"2014-07-21T08:40:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T08:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16820"},"modified":"2014-07-21T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T08:40:36","slug":"microsoft-news-summary-21-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16820","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News Summary &ndash; 21 July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much news floating about. But the first two items in my summary makes me worry about Microsoft. V- staff (contractors) are going to be blocked from network access intermittently, making them redundant, and baldy needed <em>human<\/em> testers are being made redundant. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winbeta.org\/news\/microsoft-imposes-restrictions-external-staff-limits-their-network-and-business-access\">Microsoft imposes restrictions on &#8216;external staff,&#8217; limits their network and business access<\/a>: This is the sort of bull$h1t that happens when HR people are allowed into meetings or to make decisions. They should be restricted to rubber stamping employment contracts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsoft-layoffs-operating-systems-group-chief-myersons-memo-to-the-troops-7000031774\/#ftag=RSS0966a21\">Operating systems group chief Myerson&#8217;s memo to the troops<\/a>: I have no idea why MSFT is cutting testers when testing quality has been dropping. We need less automation and more human involvement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/rds\/archive\/2014\/07\/15\/microsoft-azure-remoteapp-you-can-now-create-cloud-deployments-with-your-own-template-image.aspx\">Microsoft Azure RemoteApp &#8211; You can now create cloud deployments with your own template image<\/a>: You can now create a cloud deployment using your own template image.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/controlling-smb-multichannel.htm\">Controlling SMB Multichannel in Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>: A post by me on Petri.com.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcentral.ie\/lenovo-gives-up-on-small-screen-windows-tablets-in-us-market\">Lenovo gives up on small-screen Windows tablets in US market<\/a>: Premium 8&quot; Windows tablets not selling in the USA. Small is about cheap. And small requires quantity and quality native apps.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/enterprise\/item\/37674-record-number-of-ddos-attac\">Record number of DDoS attacks in first half of 2014<\/a>: A new report examining distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2014 has shown that incidents are increasing exponentially at 20Gbps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b8c65e0d-15a3-4219-9b71-973fcf41dedb\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Azure\" rel=\"tag\">Azure<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/RDS\" rel=\"tag\">RDS<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage\" rel=\"tag\">Storage<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Networking\" rel=\"tag\">Networking<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hardware\" rel=\"tag\">Hardware<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much news floating about. But the first two items in my summary makes me worry about Microsoft. V- staff (contractors) are going to be blocked from network access intermittently, making them redundant, and baldy needed human testers are being made redundant. Microsoft imposes restrictions on &#8216;external staff,&#8217; limits their network and business access: This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News Summary &ndash; 21 July 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,180,185,80,134,190,99,120],"class_list":["post-16820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-azure","tag-hardware","tag-microsoft","tag-networking","tag-rds","tag-security","tag-storage","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16821,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16820\/revisions\/16821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}