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February 2008 - Posts

POWER TOOLS for Visual Studio Tools for Office released to the web

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 4:23 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Launch With Iain McDonald

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:40 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments

Over 1000 ISVs Supporting Windows Server 2008 at 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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:29 PM by neilhut | 4 Comments

5 STAR review of Windows Server

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 9:56 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Dilbert Stand aside - Enter the Hero's Happen Here Comic STRIP

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://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/comicviewer/default.html Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:08 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Developing Games for ZUNE - NOW YOU CAN

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. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:01 PM by neilhut | 4 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Performance Optimization

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:13 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Application Considerations When Upgrading to Windows Server 2008

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:45 PM by neilhut | 3 Comments

New Software + Services Architecture Center

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 4:26 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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WATTS UP : Reducing Power Consumption - GOING GREEN

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:11 AM by neilhut | 3 Comments

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Supported on Windows Server 2008

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:20 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Making Vista SP1 Available for Technical folks sooner

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, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:33 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Joins OpenID Foundation Board of Directors

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. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 4:37 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Clustering Services Screencast

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 3:52 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Microsoft Server and Tools support for Windows Server 2008

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:25 AM by neilhut | 20 Comments

A discussion with Alex Hinrichs about Shipping Windows Server 2008

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 . Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 8:18 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Forget the Super bowl, Windows Server 2008 has RTM'd

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 4:28 PM by neilhut | 3 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Presentations

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 files. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 9:45 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

MySpace presenting at MIX on RESTful WCF

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) Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 3:14 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
 
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