Picking the Numbers: Are 10 or 2016 (Windows, That Is) Winners for You?

NTK 2015
Stopnja 300
Datum sreda
20. maj 2015 15:15

Microsoft's told us that there's a new server and desktop version of our favorite OS on the way… but that they can't tell us everything that's in it. (Apparently it's sort of like Christmas you know your parents are getting you something, but you can't know what it is until The Day, and in this case that day appears to be one in late-October.) On the client side, you already know to get ready for (yawn) yet another new-and-improved UI. But Windows 10 is more than just a pretty or, rather new face. It integrates with the cloud more smoothly. It offers a new kind of app that runs on phones, tablets and full-sized computers. (Yes, Windows 10 will run on many of your existing phones.) It supports an end to passwords … you won't miss having to remember passwords, will you?. Furthermore, it continues in the Vista-and-later tradition of continuously simplifying upgrades -- especially the in-place ones! -- and deployment. (Of course, there's that "where did Windows 9 go?" question, but you'll get the answer to that at this talk.) On the server side, it's clouds again, both on the public and private cloud side. Improvements to Hyper-V kick things off, extending and strengthening the foundation. That's followed by changes to storage -- a nifty storage replicator that, unlike SAN "LUN replicators," works between any kind of architecture, and a heck of a lot more cheaply, as well as, well, something they can't tell you yet that'll be pretty neat (but remember, you didn't hear it from us). Security improves in several ways, including a copy of Defender in every server. You'll see all kinds of "Software-Defined" things in Server 2015 and, on top of that, there is -- of course -- a pile of new PowerShell capabilities baked into this next Server. And there's even more things that, um, they're not talking about just yet. Join Mark Minasi, author of the 20-year series of best-selling Mastering Windows Server books, in this quick, entertaining look at the next crop of Windows. Attend this session with Mark and he'll convert the new software from a numbers game to a sure thing!

Mark Minasi is a best-selling author, popular technology columnist, commentator, keynote speaker, and IT consultant. He first got the chance to play with a computer at a university class in 1973. At that time, he learned two things: •First, computers are neat. (People still said "neat" back in 1973. Hey, it was back in the 20th Century.) •Second, many technical people are very nice folks, but they can sure put you to sleep in an instant while explaining technical things. Mark transformed those two insights into a career making computers and networking easier and more fun to understand. He's done that by writing over a thousand computer columns, several dozen best-selling technical books, and explaining operating system and networking planning, installation, maintenance and repair to crowds from two to two thousand. An independent voice hailed as "Favorite Technical Author" by CertCities four times out of four, Mark has the unusual ability to take even the most technical topics, filter out the hype and explain them in plain English. Perhaps that's why when TechTarget hired him to deliver a webcast on PC tuning, he drew three times as many attendees as any of their previous webcasts, crashing Yahoo's servers, and why he's been hired to deliver keynote addresses at hundreds of techie conferences around the world. Mark is probably best known for his Mastering Windows Server and Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide books, both of which have seen more than 12 editions and sold over a million copies. An audience member at a recent talk remarked that he believed that Mark could "do a talk on watching paint dry that would be so good that people would be motivated to go home and paint a wall just to experience the joy of drying paint." While this has led to many very tempting offers from the likes of Sherwin-Williams and Behr, he's decided to stay with his first love... technology. Mark's humorous, provocative and yet informative style makes him a favorite of audiences around the world. Mark's firm, MR&D, is based in Pungo, a town in Virginia's Tidewater area which is distinguished by having one and only one traffic light.