Users of the 32-gigabyte version of Surface available 16 GB

Surface has been in the hands of iFixit, who studied it with passion for maintainability. Then the cost of components gadget experts evaluated the company IHS iSuppli. In the first two cases, the device did not bring big surprises, in the context of available hard disk space Microsoft new tablet pretty distinguished.

For buyers device was a big surprise, that is available for their use only half of the available memory Surface. In particular, many are unhappy with the fact that the model with 32 gigabytes of storage capacity offers at least 16 gigabytes of space. Surface users with 64 GB of "missed" about 18 GB.

Microsoft today explained the mysterious disappearance of gigabytes. Thus, when expressed in radix 32 gigabytes become in fact the 29 GB and 64 GB reduced to 59 gigabytes. About 5 GB borrow backup OS and another 8 GB to the operating system and associated applications.

What if the remaining 16 GB of anything missing? In Redmond advised to use the "cloud" storage SkyDrive, as well as memory cards and USB-drives.

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack MDOP 2012 officially released

Microsoft just released the official version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2012. MDOP Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft volume license corporate customers with a solution software suite, which contains a variety of software, can be used to improve the compatibility and manageability of the Windows desktop, reduce support costs, every year the launch of the new version.

Compared with the 2011 R2 version released in August 2011, MDOP 2012 includes the following changes:

Add: Microsoft user state virtualization (Microsoft User Experience Virtualization, referred to as the UE-V) 1.0 upgrade: Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT) 8.0 upgrade: Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 upgrade: Microsoft BitLocker management and monitor removal: remove Microsoft asset information collection service (AIS) 2.0: Microsoft Desktop Error Monitoring (DEM) 3.5

User state virtualization technology support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 Microsoft account sync personalized settings functionality similar to Windows 8 integrated in a nutshell. But there are many differences between the two: the DaRT 8.0 toolset decided to support Windows 8 and can produce 32-bit and 64-bit recovery image, and the image deployed to the U disk environment to support UEFI start support GPT The hard disk partition table, but does not support Windows To Go on Windows 8. Windows 7 can continue to use the old the DaRT.

Asset information collected Service (AIS) 2.0 online services enterprises due to the use of very small, and there is an overlap with other Microsoft technology functions, currently faces an uncertain future.

In addition, MSOP 2012 still contains the following old components:

Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 SP2, 4.6 SP1, 4.6 SP2

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0,2.0

Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 3.0 and 4.0

Microsoft diagnostic and recovery tools package (the DaRT) 6.0 , 6.5, 7.0

The official three download MDOP way:

Microsoft Volume Licensing Site (for volume license enterprise customers)

MSDN subscription download site

TechNet subscription download site