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I had a bunch of people internally ask me why Windows Server shows it's version as Windows Server 2008 SP1 (for brevity - WS08). I will explain it, but I wanted to use the Writer feature that allows me to insert pictures. Who says anything
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There will be a bunch of news & posts around this today. We came in super early & the finals sign offs for the release off this morning. Steve Ballmer gave a talk to the financial communities Today is a fun day for us - not one that comes along
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As a late breaking thing, I am doing the Keynote for Teched Africa at Sun City, which is near Johannesberg, South Africa. It's a very quick trip - a total of 48 travel for 80 hours on the ground... I've never been there before & wish I could spend
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Today the Register called the Windows Server blog a 'a candidate for ugliest pages on the internet' - I feel this is a challenge. I think this is obviously a challenge i can, as a designer of some of the worst UI known to man, exceed.
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You may have seen a bunch of noise today around dates & Windows Server 2008. Seeing it is my group ' s job to shepherd the release out the door, I thought I would enter the fray. This is kinda the non story of the year because our launch date is exactly
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I’m sitting here in Yokohama, Japan in the middle of rehearsals for my keynote of Tech-Ed Japan. Honestly, getting the big room is both easier and harder than you’d expect. It’s easier because you have a bunch of demos that other people have to do so
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http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-07/bh-usa-07-speakers.html#McDonald I kinda hate the session description. it looks like a way of sending people to sleep. I asked for it to be changed to this: Are you waiting for ways to hack the next Microsoft Server?
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Mary Jo Foley posted a story http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=551 from an interview I did with her at WinHEC. It was verbatim, so I can't really blame anyone else for misconstruing or editing what I said. However, I will say something that didn't come
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Last week at WinHEC I mused that Powershell could one day be the default command shell for Windows Server & maybe be the only shell for Server Core. Betanews picked up that http://www.betanews.com/article/Why_Cant_PowerShell_Be_the_Windows_Command_Prompt/1179385810
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One of the aussies sent me this http://apcmag.com/6121/windows_server_gets_vista_version_itis In the article it is said that Vista would be the last 32 bit release. That comment was regarding Server. We in server don't speak for client &, as far as
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Today Bill Gates announced the real name for Longhorn Server – Windows Server 2008. I suppose people are going to call us boring for keeping the naming convention from previous releases. It’s a server, what da ya expect? We did a naminig video while we
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Today I am doing an Industry panel at the RDP confrence & directly after I get ot do the second keynote of the day. I think they put me on at 2pm so i can wake people up. Tonight i am going down to LA for the WinHEC Confrence - I am doing some press
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I am starting up a series of things I think people would be interested in getting ready for with Longhorn Server. The first is one that a number of people seem to like – Server Core My next ones are about Read Only Domain Controller & Bitlocker on
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This afternoon we signed off Longhorn server Beta 3. i did a channel9 ( http://channel9.msdn.com ) video on the sign off which should be out really soon. its a great release & i have to give props out to all involved in making this. thanks! I think
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Last week, we posted another trial build of Windows Server "Longhorn" - so far there are about 3000 people who have downloaded it & we're pretty happy with the way it looks. There are more builds coming out in the near future. Personally, I would
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