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OneNote is now free.  And it’s cross platform supporting Windows, Windows Phone, MacOS, iPhone, iPad, and Android.

And it has tools like Office Lens for digitizing whiteboards & documents into your OneNote file.

So, do you know anyone that wants to switch from Evernote to OneNote?

Here’s your free tool:  (Windows only)

• DOWNLOAD: Evernote2OneNote (SourceForge)
  http://lifehacker.com/migrate-your-data-from-evernote-to-onenote-with-this-to-1560885406

Lync for Mac 14.0.8 now supports Mavericks OS.

The update specifically resolves the following issues:

• 2952676 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2952676/)
  Delegate doesn’t receive notification when you set delegation by using Lync for Mac 2011

• 2952671 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2952671/)
  Update enables Lync for Mac 2011 to run in Mac OS X Mavericks

To download the update and read more information about it visit the following link:

• DOWNLOAD: Lync for Mac 14.0.8 with Mavericks OS support
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2952672

This so awesome.

“You really wanna bring a knife to gunfight?”

Not sure this is SFW.  Just lettin’ y’know.

Looking for information about the new Enterprise Mode in Internet Explorer 11?

Documentation and Other Resources

• The blog announcement is Stay up to date with Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11.
• TechNet contains updated information for exploring, planning, deploying, managing, and supporting Internet Explorer. 
• A section on Enterprise Mode has been added to the Internet Explorer 11 Deployment Guide. 
• The Build session on Better App Compat with Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11 is available as a technical overview.
• Public forums for discussing Enterprise Mode deployment, management, and best practices are available on TechNet Forums.

Enterprise Mode Site List Manager

• Enterprise Mode Site List Manager

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

• KB article – Description of the security update for Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: April 8, 2014
• Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 7 (KB2929437)
• Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 7 x64 Edition (KB2929437)
• Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 in Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB2929437)

Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

• KB article – Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 Update April, 2014
• Windows 8.1 Update (KB2919355)
• Windows 8.1 Update for x64-based Systems (KB2919355)
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Update (KB2919355)
• MSDN Subscribers – Full versions of Windows 8.1 Enterprise with Update

This week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West we will host developers and press from around the world for three days of immersive content and demos during our annual Build Developer Conference. It all begins at 8:30am PDT on April 2^nd.  You can watch the keynotes, live session presentations and Channel 9 interviews from anywhere in the world.

Microsoft’s senior executives and top technical leaders will tell Microsoft’s story through keynotes, supported with some incredible Microsoft product news, partner announcements and compelling demos to show developers what they can do on the Microosft platform. We’ll go to the bare metal with over 130 deep technical sessions, all delivered by the Microsoft Engineers and Evangelists behind our products.  We’ll talk to developers of every type and show the ways Microsoft is supporting their technology investments, working across mobile and cloud and maximizing business opportunities across all platforms.

It is going to be an incredible week.

Tune in…
If you are not attending Build, our Channel 9 Community will broadcast keynotes, top sessions and interviews live throughout the event. Developers and other customers will be able to submit their questions online. Updates and announcements can be found on the Microsoft News Center. All remaining sessions will be made available on-demand within about 24 hours of presentation time.

To watch the BUILD keynotes live, visit:

• Channel 9
  http://channel9.msdn.com/

On-demand sessions will be available 24 hours after presented, here:

• BUILD on-demand playback
  http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build

One of the things that the HTC Windows Phone 8X had as a benefit over other Smartphones in the industry was the unmatched power routed to its audio jack for headphones and its speakerphone.  Branded with Beats Audio, there’s really been no challengers on the market with the same volume & quality of sound.

Nokia has, with the Lumia Icon, gotten bit closer.  According to Phone Arena, the Icon delivered the highest voltage of any smartphone that they’ve tested on the market.

AUDIO OUTPUT:
The “audio output voltage” (.54V) and the “loudness of the speakerphone” (79dB) on the Nokia Lumia Icon is the best of ANY SMARTPHONE ON THE MARKET.  This includes the Samsung Galaxy S4 and all other Lumias, including the 1520.

The benchmark that I’ve personally used has been Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” which is a song with incredibly low bass requiring a strongly backed audio port to sustain the level of bass necessary for the right clarity & minimal distortion.  Previous Nokia Lumias designs didn’t deliver the level of power required to play the song back without distortion.  (much less Android & iPhones)

The Nokia Lumia Icon is a dramatic improvement over existing smartphones for audio quality.  For more information on the tests & the other phones compared, visit the following URL:

• PHONEARENA: Nokia Lumia Icon Benchmarks
  http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Nokia-Lumia-Icon_id8160/benchmarks

Today, Microsoft announced a new suite of technologies called the Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) that solves 3 core challenges for mobile computing users in a single, extremely affordable subscription:

• Identity & Access Management
• Mobile Device Management
• Data Protection

The technologies that are subscribed to by EMS are:

• Azure Active Directory Premium
• Windows Intune
• Azure Active Directory Rights Management Services

Enterprise Mobility Suite is a subscription purchased for $7.50/per-user/per-month and will be first available on May 1st.  This is 30% savings over the aggregate costs of all 3 services.

• Download the datasheet:
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/B/D/6BDADC01-1B7A-4420-9F1A-C1702920607B/enterprise_mobility_suite_datasheet.pdf
• Visit the product site here:
  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/enterprise-mobility-suite/default.aspx#fbid=OUCCNZpf_81
• Read the announcement here:
  http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2014/03/27/enterprise-mobility-for-every-business-and-every-device.aspx

Have you ever noticed that if you have the Preview Pane turned on within Windows Explorer that Adobe Acrobat’s .PDF preview handler for Windows Explorer locks the selected file, preventing you from deleting it? 

This is annoying.  And Adobe’s had this problem for more than 6 years now and never fixed it.

Well, it turns out that Tim Heuer solved the problem at no cost to you.  It involves installing a new Preview Handler from FoxIt, displacing the one used in Windows Explorer from Adobe.  It allows you to continue to use Adobe Acrobat normally as it’s installed but when you are viewing a .PDF file within Windows Explorer through the Preview Pane, it uses FoxIt’s preview handler which doesn’t suffer from the same “locked file” problem as Adobe’s.  As a result, you can preview the file in Explorer… and delete it quickly if the file is nothing you want.  Works on Windows 7 & 8!

(Of course you might just simply want to wholesale switch to using FoxIt’s PDF tools instead of Adobe Acrobat.  FoxIt’s tools are lighter weight, faster, and cheaper.)

• Foxit PDF Preview Handler
  http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/05/09/foxit-pdf-preview-handler.aspx

Download the newly released Office for iPad.  Read, view and present documents, spreadsheets and presentations for free.  To get the full editing & creation experience, you can sign up for a free 30 day Office 365 trial at www.office.com/try. During your trial period, you can use Office across your PC, Mac and iPad.

• DOWNLOAD: Office for iPad
  http://www.appstore.com/microsoftoffice

The announcement & what the press has to say about it:

• Microsoft Office for iPad sets the gold standard for tablet productivity
  By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report | March 27, 2014 — 17:45 GMT (10:45 PDT)   
  It took four years, but Microsoft has finally released full-featured Office apps for the iPad. As expected, the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps are free to install but require an Office 365 subscription to unlock the full set of features. Here’s what you can expect.
  http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-office-for-ipad-sets-the-gold-standard-for-tablet-productivity-7000027797/
• A cloud for everyone, on every device
  27 Mar 2014 10:40 AM   
  The following post is from Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft.
  http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/03/27/a-cloud-for-everyone-on-every-device.aspx
• Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad
  by John Case, on March 27, 2014
  http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/27/announcing-the-office-you-love-now-on-the-ipad/