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Silverlight : I guess it is all in the name, ( I mean in the version )

I guess it is all in the name, ( I mean in the version ), but today we announced a few changes around Silverlight. Silverlight 1.1 was originally intended as an incremental release, but there have been quite a few people dropping things into the hopper, Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:54 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

DAY #2 : Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop

In September, we recorded the sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop. These sessions were delivered by several of the Technical Evangelists on the Visual Studio team and Program Managers from the product group. Last week we released Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:21 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

IIS7 key features show through web casts

Ryan on the team demo'd some of the key new features of IIS7 at a reviewers event here at Redmond. They were really well received, so we asked him to capture them into a screen cast so that everyone can see them. We placed them on the Edge site ( http://edge.technet.com Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:44 AM by neilhut | 3 Comments

Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop Recordings

In September, we recorded the key sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop. These sessions were delivered by several of the Technical Evangelists on the Visual Studio Rhythm team and Program Managers from the product group. We have Read More...
Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 9:08 AM by neilhut | 3 Comments

New Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Lab

One of the hands-on labs from the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit is now online and available as an MSDN Virtual Lab. The “Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008” lab is available on MSDN Virtual Labs here . Developers can now get started with Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:08 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments

Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit - Download it now

After the release of Visual Studio to RTM, the tools and framework evangelism team are pleased to announce that the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit on MSDN. This has been created for the RTM code-base and is released on the Microsoft.com Download Center Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:36 PM by neilhut | 6 Comments

SNEAK PEAK - Windows HPC Server 2008

Giovanni in the team has created a screen cast for the first beta of Windows Server HPC 2008 (V2 of the product ) which walks you through the new capabilities including setup and deployment, monitoring, reporting and resource management. Giovanni also Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 7:53 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

WIndows HPC Server 2008 - New Name, New VERSION, NEW SPEED

So at Super Computing 2007 we announced a new name called Windows HPC Server 2008 ( instead of Windows Compute Cluster Server -- it never really did zing - clusters what is that all about) and the fact that we are shipping the first beta of the V2 product. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:26 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Manchester University move to Windows for High Performance Computing

Giovanni in the team has been working really closely with the University of Manchester on a High Performance computing project which used Windows Compute Cluster Server ( HPC ) together with Windows Workflow Foundation to study the effects of molecular Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:16 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

EDGE is Launched

Well I guess the story is out anyway, with Mary Jo Foley's post about the EDGE site over the weekend, but this afternoon in Barcelona we are officially announcing the site at the TechED ITFORUM keynote. I have to say that I am not that happy about us Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 1:02 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments

Daniel Reed Joins Microsoft to head up Multi-core Computing Research

For a while now, multi-core and symmetric processing have become hot issues within the software industry and during a recent Microsoft platform strategy review with some of our closest partners, this was one of the most important subjects they came to Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 9:00 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Does Google want to be in the phone business with "Android"

So Google announced that they are going to offer a free phone operating system to the mobile suppliers and carriers. Does this mean that Google is really into the App Platform or operating system market or does it mean something else? Not so sure..... Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:45 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments

Announcing Windows Essential Business Server

After two years of announcing our intent to build a medium business solution, the Windows Server Solutions Team today announced the new integrated server solution designed for midsize businesses – "Windows Essential Business Server" - previously known Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:28 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Managing Local Policy on a Windows Server Core Installation Set to "Workgroup" config

There has been a recent discussion about managing policy for a Windows Server Core instance that is in a workgroup configuration. This is a little more complex than normal, but here's what you'll need to do to enable Allow remote access to PnP interface Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:52 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

TechED Europe - Meet the Server and Tools Evangelism Team

For TechED Europe ( Developer ) this year in Barcelona, a number of my team are going to be there presenting an amazing 23 sessions on a number of sessions around the .NET Framework 3.5, IIS7, Biztalk Services and the Identity Meta System ( CardSpace Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:52 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

EDGE

Psssss. There are a whole number of these stickers around Building 18 which look like this? If I ask anyone, they will not say what it is all about. Its all huss, huss. All will be revealed on the 12th. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:32 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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Windows Sharepoint Services splits from Windows Server 2008

Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 is going to be removed from the final version of Windows Server 2008 and will once again be an installable component from the web. This change has been made pretty late in the game, but this is no difference to the situation Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:08 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments
 
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