Microsoft Patent Renders Give a Tantalising Glimpse at What the Surface Phone Could Look Like

Microsoft’s next Surface device could be a foldable mobile tablet, if renders inspired by Redmond’s patent filing are anything to go by.

Designer David Breyer posted detailed images of 3D renders he’d made based on patent filings Microsoft made last week which tease a foldable mobile device.

While we have to take such renders with a pinch of salt, there’s no denying that Breyer’s interpretation of the patent is eye-catching, showing a device that looks a little like a sleeker Nintendo 3DS crossed with Surface Pro and Surface Book design cues.

A lovely looking hinge awash with the type of industrial design one would expect of find on a MacBook Pro acts as a fulcrum for the foldable display to be wrapped around.

When the device is closed, a part of the screen runs along its side like the seam of a book and Breyer has it displaying notifications, such an email alerts and calendar notifications, which helps the device have a form-follows-function style of design.

Breyer has the Surface device sporting a USB Type-C port, which has been missing in Surface tablets and laptops until the recent Surface Book 2.

A Surface Pen appears alongside the Surface device, suggesting that it’ll be one of the main ways to navigate the gadget.

The renders do look like a solid interpretation of the patent Microsoft has filed, but there’s no guarantee that such a device will be made by Redmond, as the patent could merely be a prospective one such as those filed by Samsung and Apple that promise features and designs that never make it out of research and development stages.

But if Microsoft were to make such a Surface device then it could offer all manner if interesting functionality, from being a device for on the move productivity to a handheld gaming console with access to Windows based games and indy titles available through Steam.

We don’t reckon we’ll hear anything more on this until 2018, but there’s a slim chance such a Surface device could crop up in CES 2018 or MWC 2018 a month or so later.

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Microsoft’s Smaller Xbox Wireless Adapter

Microsoft reported its littler Xbox Wireless Adapter prior this month, enabling Windows PCs to utilize a Xbox One controller remotely. It's 66 percent littler than the more seasoned adaptation, and just resembles a general USB stick. Like its ancestor, the new connector underpins up to eight controllers in the meantime, and in addition four normal talk headsets or two stereo ones.

The new Xbox Wireless Adapter should go on special a week ago for $24.99, yet Microsoft has now deferred its discharge until January 2018. In an abnormal move, Microsoft is discharging the connector in a few nations in front of January, however deferring its dispatch in the US advertise.

Windows Central reports that it would seem that Japan will access the connector first not long from now, close by New Zealand and Australia in September. It's not clear when the connector will be accessible crosswise over Europe, or whether different nations need to hold up until the point when January like the US. Microsoft hasn't given any motivation to the deferral, yet it's conceivable that the organization has a ton of supply of the old model still in its retail locations that it needs to offer.

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Here's Why Microsoft Could Be A Buy Ahead Of Earnings

In front of Microsoft's quarterly income report due out on Thursday after the market close, one large scale strategist is denoting the stock as a purchase.

The inheritance innovation organization has seen a solid long haul incline, said Boris Schlossberg, overseeing chief of remote trade system at BK Asset Management. Regardless of the possibility that Microsoft sees a transient decrease here, it's as yet going to exhibit a decent purchasing open door as a decent "relative esteem wager," he said Wednesday.

"One of the key things to look for is the manner by which effective Microsoft will be later on in changing over buyers to a membership display. By and large, the greater part of the investigators anticipate that Microsoft will come in solid in this quarter, however will be watching the numbers. What's more, the more essential point here is that the more extended term incline for Microsoft is extremely positive," Schlossberg said Wednesday on CNBC's "Exchanging Nation," including that the stock is very money substantial is still exceptionally underestimated in respect to its companions.

Supporting Schlossberg's bullish standpoint is the organization's capacity to advance as of late from a product endeavor business to one dependent on membership income and cloud administrations.

"Rather than attempting to catch income as far as possible in advance, they settled on an extremely sharp business choice to attempt to catch income each and every year by securing clients to their Office 365 item," he said.

Convincing buyers to move up to a membership demonstrate for Office 365 administrations has been a powerless spot for the organization, however, Schlossberg stated, as Google's suite of office devices could exhibit rivalry.

"Microsoft has all the earmarks of being an exceptionally solid exchange still for the following quite a long while as this business change keeps on creating," Schlossberg said.

The stock was exchanging unobtrusively higher on Wednesday. Investigators are expecting profit per offer of $3.03, as per FactSet gauges.

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70-417 Sample Exam Question

Question No: 41

You work for a company named ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single Active Directory forest named ABC.com. The forest contains a single Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named ABC.com. All servers in the ABC.com domain run Windows Server 2012. ABC.com works with a partner company named Redbridge Logistics. The Redbridge Logistics network consists of a single Active Directory forest named RedbridgeLogistics.com. The forest contains a single Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named RedbridgeLogistics.com. All servers in the RedbridgeLogistics.com domain run Windows Server 2012.

A forest trust exists between the two forests. The two networks are connected by a WAN link. A server named ABC-DNS1 hosts an Active Directory-integrated zone for ABC.com. A server named RL-DNS1 hosts an Active Directory-integrated zone for RedbridgeLogistics.com Users in the ABC.com domain need to be able to resolve names of servers in the RedbridgeLogistics.com domain. You need to configure a name resolution solution that will enable name resolution in the event of a WAN link failure. What should you do?

A. You should configure a forwarder on ABC-DNS1.
B. You should configure a forwarder on RL-DNS1.
C. You should configure a secondary zone on ABC-DNS1.
D. You should configure a stub zone on RL-DNS1.
E. You should configure a stub zone on ABC-DNS1.
F. You should configure a conditional forwarder on ABC-DNS1.

Answer: C

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70-417 Sample Exam Question

Question No: 40

Your role of Network Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named ABC.com. The network includes servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2012.

A server named ABC-Win12Admin runs Windows Server 2012. You use ABC-Win12Admin to administer the Windows Server 2012 servers in the domain. You configure several custom Data Collector Sets on ABCWin12Admin to collect performance log data from network servers. To preserve disk space on ABC-Win12Admin, you need to automate the deletion of performance log data that is more than one week old. What should you do?

A. You should modify the Folder Action settings in the properties of the Data Collector Sets.
B. You should configure a quota on the folder containing the performance log data using File Server Resource Manager.
C. You should configure a disk quota on the volume that contains the folder containing the performance log data.
D. You should modify the properties of the %Systemdrive%\PerfLogs folder.

Answer: A

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70-417 Sample Exam Question

Question No: 39

Your role of Network Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named ABC.com. The network includes servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2012. A server named ABC-Win12Admin runs Windows Server 2012. You use ABC-Win12Admin to administer the Windows Server 2012 servers in the domain. You configure several custom Data Collector Sets on ABCWin12Admin to collect performance log data from network servers. To preserve disk space on ABC-Win12Admin, you need to automate the deletion of performance log data that is more than one week old. What should you do?

A. You should modify the Folder Action settings in the properties of the Data Collector Sets.
B. You should configure a quota on the folder containing the performance log data using File Server Resource Manager.
C. You should configure a disk quota on the volume that contains the folder containing the performance log data.
D. You should modify the properties of the %Systemdrive%\PerfLogs folder.

Answer: A

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70-417 Sample Exam Question

Question No: 38

Your role of Network Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named ABC.com. A server named ABC-DC1 runs Windows Server 2012. ABC-DC1 has the Active Directory Domain Services role installed and is configured as a domain controller in the ABC.com domain. You need to move the Active Directory database to a new volume on ABC-DC1. Your solution must minimize server downtime. You configure a new volume on the server. Which three of the following steps should you perform to move the Active Directory Database to the new volume? (Choose three).

A. Restart ABC-DC1 into Directory Services Restore Mode
B. Stop the Active Directory Domain Services service.
C. Use Windows Explorer to move the database files.
D. Use NTDSUtil to move the database files.
E. Restart ABC-DC1 into normal mode.
F. Restart the Active Directory Domain Services service.

Answer: B,D,F

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