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Build Conference 2015 and Significance of Windows 10

Posted on April 28, 2015

I really wanted to make this post in time for the Build 2015 Conference that opens tomorrow in San Francisco. Windows 10 will be in the spotlight. Why is Windows 10 important? It is not about the new UI features … Continue reading →

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XLStyles Tool store app works great on latest Windows 10 build 9926

Posted on January 23, 2015

I installed Windows 10 Technical Preview today and went through all XLStyles Tool usage paths. All issues that came up in the previous build have been fixed (e.g., file picker started working as expected, cancelling file open action no longer … Continue reading →

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2014 in review

Posted on December 29, 2014

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 190,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading →

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XLStyles Tool for Win8.1 (release 4) submitted to the app store

Posted on November 27, 2014

Why and what is in this release? A user from Norway mentioned that he can’t see XLStyles Tool in the app store. This was weird because all apps are always published for all markets. App store tech support took about … Continue reading →

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XLStyles Tool on Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on October 18, 2014

Happy to report that Windows App Store version of the XLStyles Tool app successfully tested on the latest version of Windows 10 technical preview. The builds before 9840 had an issue in full screen mode: file picker would remain hidden … Continue reading →

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Creating Rolling Periods Dimension in PowerPivot or Tabular models

Posted on April 23, 2014

If you created trend reports in Power View and then created some more and then when the next month came you cursed at yourself for being so prolific, then you will really benefit from the latest article I co-authored with … Continue reading →

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Windows XP is no Longer Supported

Posted on April 8, 2014

As of today Windows XP won’t be getting any updates or security patches. If you didn’t upgrade because you didn’t want to move your files here is free Windows XP data migration tool.

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