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Monday, June 30, 2008 4:32 PM

Hyper-V - looking good...

I sit in a group made up of devs (and ex-devs) and infrastructure folks. While "my half" looks forward to new releases of the .NET Framework the other half seem to get all excited about stuff without an API - surely everything has an API!? They
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Friday, May 30, 2008 11:19 AM

Microsoft HPC Pack Beta 2 Released

Whoops - nearly forgot this one. We released Beta 2 of the HPC pack earlier this month. I am a fan of HPC - even if I have no dev skills in it :-) Head over to the connect site (and sign up if necessary) to gain access to the download.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:59 PM

Windows HPC Server 2008 March CTP Available

Apologies for the delay - meant to blog about this (and lots of other stuff) much earlier in the month. We released a new Community Tech Preview of Windows HPC Server 2008 this month. The good news is that you can join the HPC beta today, download an
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:07 PM

Windows HPC Server meets video games

I have previously posted on High Performance Computing and what it may mean to ISVs. Currently two of my ISVs are getting very active with the beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 in the area of Financial Services which is exciting - but not nearly as exciting
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Friday, February 29, 2008 2:37 PM

Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure Webcasts

We are not short of content these days - why not try one or two of our Windows Server 2008 technical webcasts nicely grouped together by my colleagues in Microsoft EMEA. Windows Server 2008 Event Page: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/event.aspx?id=87
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:46 AM

Are you a UK ISV with something great to say about Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008?

At the moment there is a lot of activity in Microsoft UK to gather up all the great stories from our early adopters we have been working with - everything from videos to case studies to short sound bytes. Which made me realise that we must be missing
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:16 PM

Resources for Windows High Performance Computing

The following resources should help you get up to speed on Windows HPC Server 2008 and high performance computing in general - whether you prefer to read, listen, watch or travel. First up, two events in March. Events: London, March 27th 2008: In the
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:12 AM

UK Events - Architect Insight Conference and Windows HPC Server

Two UK events that may be of interest to ISVs. Architect Insight Conference 2008 - April The Architect Insight Conference 2008 registration site is now open. This is the third year of the conference and this year we move venue from Wales to England. I
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:27 PM

Registration details for UK Launch of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 now available

But places are going very fast! From our MSDN Flash (which amazingly some of you don't get! Signup now ) "We are registering IT Pros and Developers via separate URLs, so unless you want to end up in the wrong track, please use the appropriate registration
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:31 PM

Making Windows HPC Server 2008 feel more concrete

I thought a few pics from the technical overview document would make Windows HPC Server feel more real to folks brand new to this area. This post complements my introduction to Windows HPC Server 2008 . A typical Windows HPC Server 2008 Network The Administration
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:36 AM

UK ISV releases Open Source large file transfer solution - nice work!

One of the ISVs I work with is Memba . Memba last year started to beta a file transfer platform to publish, share, send and transfer very large files over the Internet - Velodoc . From that work they went on to create Velodoc XP Edition, a downgraded
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:18 AM

Whiteboard drawing skills... I am slowly getting them back :-)

Something odd happened in 2007. I seemed to spend most of the year talking or "projecting" - and very little time standing in front of a whiteboard working through issues and architectures with ISVs. As a result my whiteboard work was getting
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:18 PM

Links for Architect Forum IIS7 Session

Today I delivered an overview of IIS7 at the Architect Forum held at our offices in Reading. I promised I would share a few of the links I mentioned during the session. Main IIS7 site Summary of how Microsoft.com are using IIS7 and more recent webcast
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:19 AM

After an overview of Windows Server 2008 and the expected impact?

Then check out this short paper created by IDC http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/f/f/1ff030a1-7351-46f4-bee4-14e506be2b7b/207571.pdf . This IDC study provides a review of the new features and functionality in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, along
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:59 AM

Windows Server 2008 Prices Announced

Well - US$ prices anyway. I will have a dig for UK. Details can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12HyperVPR.mspx The headline stuff: Pricing for all Windows Server 2008 products will be increasing by approximately 1 percent
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