Certification Prep – The 20 Minute Workout

Steven Sinofsky has a new blog post up at Building Windows 8 An inside look from the Windows engineering team and it is a very detailed look at the history of file management and access throughout the history of the Windows operating systems. It also includes a look at what's planned for Windows 8. Steven's intro: Windows Explorer is a foundation of the user experience of the Windows desktop and has undergone several design changes over the years, but has not seen a substantial change in quite some time. Windows 8 is about reimagining Windows, so we took on the challenge to improve the most widely used desktop tool (except maybe for Solitaire) in Windows. Alex Simons on the program management team authored this post with a detailed look at the evolution of Explorer and the major improvements to its interface and functionality for Windows 8. Judging by the passion on file operations and user interface design, we know this is an important subject so we expect a pretty e

By Arielle Levin Becker © The Connecticut Mirror This story originally appeared at CTMirror.org , the website of The Connecticut Mirror, an independent, nonprofit news organization covering government, politics and public policy. HARTFORD — Julie Michaelson has spent five years working on her hospital’s information technology system, but she says it would be a misconception to think she’s computer- savvy. Mary McAward worked for years in data processing before being laid off, and is hoping the coming wave of health information technology will mean a new career path for her. Both are taking federally funded courses at Capital Community College, part of a national effort to educate more than 10,500 people in the electronic systems that, after years of discussion, are poised to become commonplace in medicine. That means jobs, to build, install and maintain the systems. The federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has estimated that

I plan to get a couple of posts up here regarding my current efforts to complete all of my Hyper-V certifications (I recently passed 70-669 and I’ll blog about that at some point) but I am hoping to get to VMWare shortly after as that is what is in use at my current employer, Bloomberg LP. I wanted to finish up Hyper-V as I have more experience with it before I moved over to make an attempt at the VCP certification (if you are a VCP4 you only have until February 29, 2012 to upgrade to VCP5 without having to take a VMware Education course all over again; if you pass that date you’re effectively starting from scratch. I’ll get to all of that in a moment.) I’ve always had great success LEARNING ABOUT THE PRODUCT by getting hands on exposure and filling in the gaps with good training and Train Signal is always my first stop. If they don’t have what I am looking for I may go elsewhere if I feel I am going to need it but I always lean on them first and I have done so since my first purc

Mike Rodriguez over on the TrainSignal Training website has released a great write up focusing on a number of important updates for many of the major certification tracks. He has a write up regarding the New 2011 CompTIA Security+ Exam and the new Security+ SY0-301 Exam Objectives TrainSignal's current Security+ Training offering has received CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC) approval and I am sure as they upgrade their training for the new SY0-301 Exam Objectives they will be able to get the same certification. There is also a section regarding the upcoming Microsoft Exams that are retiring as of this September. You can review the list of exams that Mike has listed and you can take a look at the full list of retired exams on Microsoft's website   Mike's article also has some updates regarding the CCDE Practical Exam, VMware Certified Professional 4 Desktop Exam as well as a couple of others.   I would definitely suggest reviewing his entire post -

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