Neil Hutson - Focused on Emerging Technologies for Microsoft

9 new "Power Tools" have been released to the web to help in the development and analysis of applications written for Office 2007, Open XML support and configuration of your office systems. The 9 tools are packaged in 3 groups. There is an overview...

This week David had a chat with Iain McDonald who is the person responsible for getting Windows Server 2008 to the party on time. Pretty interesting how his PM team works to make sure that all the parts of the product come together. Server 2008 launch...

A new Server Operating System is not a whole lot of good without great applications running on it. This time around some of these are even open source vendors. The list of partners supporting Windows Server 2008 provides an insight into the momentum around...

There have been a number of reviews of Windows Server 2008 since we made the RTM 3 weeks ago (doesn't time fly ). The latest comes from Paul Thurrott's super site for Windows where he puts the product through its paces. There he lists his top features...

As part of the Windows Server 2008 launch wave, its seems that we are moving into the comic business. I was brought up on "The Dandy", where Desperate Dan ruled. Here is one, but there are a whole lot more at the following link   http:...

How cool is this? The XNA Community Games Platform team has just announced the ability to deploy games built with XNA Game Studio 3.0 onto the Zune devices.  This will not just be able to make the game run, but there is some other cool stuff too...

Adam in the team met with Bill Karagounis who is responsible for the performance enhancements in Windows Server 2008. He talks about some of the improvements that they have made in networking and Terminal Services plus a lot more details. Very cool and...

So how do servers upgrade themselves to Windows Server 2008, and how does data, that is not part of the operating system get handled? One of the interesting point to note is that in Windows Server 2008 the data that is part of the operating system, the...

Building the right architecture for the next generation of applications which need to take advantage of the intelligence on the local PC, combined with the global presence of interaction with Internet services is really important. In fact, you could quickly...

So how much power does your PCs draw? How much more efficient are the new machines vs. the old machines??  And how do you figure that out the best options to go GREEN? You will be very surprised... These are the problems what Grant in out Platform...

I want to keep you continually informed as more Microsoft Server products are supported on Windows Server 2008. Yesterday we released WSUS 3.0 SP1 which now fully supports Windows Server 2008 and can be used to download software updates to your client...

Last week we RTM'd the SP1 release of Vista. I installed it, and have to say that this is a major improvement in performance and stability ( I have a VAIO which hated to be docked ). So I am really impressed, and I think that most of you will be too,...

One of the great stories coming out at the end of last week was the inclusion of Microsoft onto the OpenID Foundation board of directors. This news is that a whole bunch of players have joined : Google, IBM, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo joined together...

This week on EDGE I had a chat with Adam about the new failover clustering capabilities within Windows Server 2008 and he showed this in action. After a discussion on the whiteboard, Adam walked me through the installation of clustering support on Windows...

I have had a number of customers and partners asking what "Microsoft" products will be supported at the Windows Server 2008 at launch and beyond? Fair question and below is the current status. I have placed them into four categories, RTM, H1 2008, H2...

Ever wanted to know how we shipped Windows Server 2008? Here is a discussion Dan had with Alex about the ship process. Here is the interview .

For me it has been a long road. It all started 2 years ago with the "Longhorn Server Software Design preview", followed by countless training events and deep dive labs in Bld20 and around the world. Today we announced that Windows Server 2008...

We have just uploaded 7 presentations about compatibility issues between Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 to MSDN. These are all going to be linked from the Windows Server 2008 dev center . In the mean time, here are the details to these...

Most people consider Windows Communication Foundation ( WCF ) as a great framework for communicating between applications using the open standard WS-* protocol. I am not sure that many realize the high quality support that WCF (in .NET Framework 3.5)...