VolkerW's WebLog

I tend to disagree with Robert . First, Smarttags aren’t “evil” and second, Google may not have plans to ship Hailstorm. J When I read about Mark Lucovsky leaving Microsoft at eWeek this morning, the first thing that came to my mind was – like Microsoft...

" NVIDIA IS first with WHQL drivers for Windows XP, x64 Edition. Nvidia got a confirmation that Microsoft admitted its recently submitted driver for Geforce 6800 Ultra and gave it a stamp of approval for this operating system. Nvidia can rock the Win...

Now you can, with the help of Cherry OS , let loose a “Panther” on your Windows desktop (thanks virtualization.info for the news). Still don’t get why you would do that. Maybe smooth migration to Windows J . One of the main reasons (if not the main reason...

From Dave Kearns' directory lookup benchmarking figures : Eliminating the quad x64 machine left the remaining four with the following "entries per second" returned: * 25,941 for the dual 2.2-GHz Opteron. * 15,677 for the dual 1.5-GHz Itanium II. * 3,482...

Now that we are clear about the Microsoft 64-bit commitment , let’s focus on the future J . Obviously, HPC is a big thing for Microsoft and I expect other important announcements like Jim Allchin’s x64 message in the near future. However, what about virtualization...

On Tuesday Molly Wood wrote an article on c|net: Good-bye, computer; hello, world! I like some of her condierations which start with: "Mark Lucovsky, our aforementioned Microsoft defector, was also the chief software architect for the now-dormant .Net...

At http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10017 Do you use a 64bit CPU in your main computer? Come in and vote, let's see what the OSNews readers are running. If yes, leave a comment if you are using a clean 64bit OS with it too. Read more on this exclusive...

Did not pay too much attention to the developments of OS/2 in the past years. Maybe because IBM did not plan for a 64-bit version (chuckle). This morning I listened to my favorite German radio station DLF . They have a broadcast “Computer and Communication...

Congrat's on being named one of the 5 companies capable of making an impact in Bioinformatics. According to a recent market survey, MSFT was among the best. Here're the links: http://gene2drug.com/about/news.asp?newsId=162 http://gene2drug.com/reports...

One of my colleagues from the HPC team brought this to my attention: "Jim discusses HPC/cluster computing. His comments on HPC being currently seen as a function outside the OS and the corresponding data platform currently being seen as outside the database...

A couple of days ago the Channel9 team posted interviews recorded during the Route64 kick-off event: Over the next few days we'll bring you video from the Route64 Training tour when it visited Redmond . In this first part , you meet Kang Su Gatlin (again...

Yesterday, a few hours before RTM, my blog posting was almost ready, I realized that this blog entry, being posted a few hours before RTM of SP1, had the potenial of becoming 'influencial' to my career. Well, at least I decided not to blog. Only to find...

You certainly want to hear more about what is going on inside Microsoft with the upcoming CCE version of Windows Server. CCE stands for Compute Cluster Edition . Details on this SKU will have to wait a bit. But wrt HPC, Microsoft is working with many...

From the WindowsServer blog : Please join Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Windows Server Division and Abhi Talwalkar, Vice President & General Manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group to discuss Microsoft and Intel’s industry standard...

This week certainly was a week of partner and customer events in the 64-bit Windows world. Ø x64 Partner Summit Ø HPC NDA event Forgot to blog about it. D… Ø The second Route64 event. This time in Houston , Tx . Route64 isa worldwide developer training...

Whatever you call your video media blog, Olivelink might be the product of choice. Found the info at http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2005/03/welcome_to_oliv.html . Certainly will try it on my favorite 64-bit laptop on Monday.

This is the last week of a Microsoft internal awareness 64-bit campaign. Evangelism is not only about external awareness and excitement; you also have an internal audience. Many of us are working on both ends, internal and external evangelism. And some...

On yesterday's blogpulse highlights , I found Amaztype . Very interesting way to search Amazon, even though it seems to require a magnifying glass.

There are at least 2 times in the life of an evangelist when things really change: When the products or technologies you evangelize RTM. When your focus changes. Well, I am lucky. In my life, both happen at about the same time: x64 support is almost released...

Everybody should know by now. But just in case. Here's the news .