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May 2008 - Posts

Vista 30, Rootkits 0

Keith posted an interesting article about Vista security. He talked about the positive stories around Vista Security and the fact that even through we have millions of desktops to protect, Vista is a highly secure platform.  See “ Vista's Despised Read More...
Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 2:53 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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PDC 2008 Registration OPEN

The great news is that the PDC 2008 registration site is now open . This is going to be one of the coolest events from Microsoft in a long, long time with some very interesting announcements and long term product strategy road maps which developers can Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:43 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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The Race to the Cloud

As predicted from TechCrunch yesterday, Google has announced the pricing model for their App Engine pricing, plus a few other features which are coming down the pipe a little later in the year. With the following pricing ( together with AWS ), this sets Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:24 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Microsoft migrates MSCOM (MSDN and TechNet) to Hyper-V virtual machines

MSCOM have been working for a while to get their infrastructure completely virtualized. If you were at MMS 2008 and heard Bob Muglia’s Keynote , you already know that MSDN.microsoft.com (MSDN) and TechNet.microsoft.com (TechNet) have been successfully Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:50 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): MSCOM_Virtualizes_MSDN_TechNet_on_Hyper-V.pdf

SQL Services Data Services (SSDS) Cloud Sample - PhluffyFotos

  Ryan has been making some modifications to the PhluffyFotos sample to make it even more easy to access. PhluffyFotos is a Web 2.0 Picture Gallery Service where users can upload their pictures from the web or mobile device. This sample is designed Read More...
Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 9:18 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Building the Microsoft Data Center

When we are adding 10,000-20,000 servers to your data center every month, you need to have a pretty good architects and a plan for how you can reduce the carbon footprint. Secondly, have you ever heard about container-based data centers??? Read on. Mike Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:19 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments

Worldwide Telescope from Microsoft Research

Keith Combs placed a very cool screencast on EDGE which shows a WorldWide Telescope application from Microsoft Research.  WorldWide Telescope - video demo and information Stars, Constellations, galaxies are all there. Very cool. You can check this Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:39 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

SMALL BUSINESS SERVER & ESSENTIAL BUSINESS SERVER preview and demo

So this feels like Demo week for me. Essential Business Server (EBS) demo with Bjorn We just shipped the first public preview of Small Business Server and Essential Business Server(EBS). David on the EDGE team had an interview with one of the program Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:39 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

WPF Week on Channel9 - READY FOR AN AMAZING DEMO??

On channel9, it is WPF ( Windows Presentation Foundation ) week. This is being  hosted by Tim Sneath and team. One of the great interviews/demos that they did was with David Teitlebaum who takes the team on a tour of graphic applications that take Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:31 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit - May Preview

The .NET evangelism team just released a revision of the .NET 3.5 SP1 + Enhancements Training Kit, updated to reflect the changes in .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1. The May Preview release includes updated hands-on-labs as well as new presentations. The following Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:40 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Interop Support

Matt Hester created a great screencast which showed how IE8 is going to help with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 and browser  interoperability.   He also showed how you can get IE 8 to support IE7 standards mode with the following meta Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:34 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments

SAP / Peoplesoft Office Integration Kit

If you’re looking for guidance on how to integrate SAP and/or PeopleSoft into your Office applications, then the Office Business Application(OBA) Sample Application Kits are a great place to start. These kits provide some great documentation and Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 10:52 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Twitter rumor that they are abandoning Ruby on Rails

I guess after two years plugging the holes, there are rumors that Twitter is planning to move from Ruby on Rails because of scalability issues, the most embarrassing being the failure during the Keynote at Mac World . I guess we will see how many more Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 5:29 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Labs RELEASED

Jason has just finished the first four labs in a series of Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility labs have been released on MSDN. You can find them as follows: - MSDN Virtual Lab: Windows Server 2008 - Access Rights, Impersonation - MSDN Virtual Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:42 AM by neilhut | 3 Comments
 
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