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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

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

Highway to PowersHELL

In the US, this year's Pop Idol is just starting, with those awful scenes of people singing who have no right to try. Recently the Powershell team found a guy who has written a song about Powershell to the sound track of "Highway to Hell - AC/DC". Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:23 PM by neilhut | 3 Comments

Every now and then we come out with funny videos [FOR LAUNCH]

What some people in the company find funny generally concerns me, especially when they create viral videos. This time is a little different with a funny video about the last Windows Server 2003 in the datacenter "Lone Server". Cool jabs and Windows ME Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:07 AM by neilhut | 5 Comments

Microsoft Volta - Splitting the ATOM ( Well CIL )

Microsoft Volta has been creating quite a stir on the community blogs over the last couple of weeks. There has been a lot of discussion about whether this is a direct competitor to GWT. I think that the two are trying to do similar things, but in a very Read More...
Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 9:03 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Windows Server 2008 RC1

The ship is nearing the dock!!! Today we shipped RC1 out to the community which is is a major milestone. We might need another RC before we get to RTM but the quality bar for this release has been pretty high. Another nice aspect is that you will be able Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:46 AM by neilhut | 8 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

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

Mary Jo Foley Article on the "Building the New Server"

I had the chance recently to meet us with Mary Jo Foley and had a discussion about how we support customers and partners in the early stages of a products live, in this case Windows Server 2008. Here is a recent article she published in the Redmond Developer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 6:13 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Transacted NTFS code - TechED DEV335

Presented the session "Whats new for Developers in Windows Server 2008" at TechED yesterday. We were pretty demo packed ( 5 demos which all worked well ) and want to make sure that I point the audience to the content and code from this session DEV335. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 6:05 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments

IIS vs Apache

The debate rolls on. I guess this must be the 11th year since Microsoft shipped its first IIS web platform. I remember installing the first beta version on NT Server 3.5.1 and thinking that this is pretty basic. Things have moved on, on both sides and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:40 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Securing a Web Service using cardspace and "Orcas"

Vittorio in the team has just completed a tutorial on his blog which walks through 5 very simple steps to create a service in Visual Studio Orcas and then secure it with the CardSpace technology. He then extracts specific claims which could then be used Read More...
Posted Friday, May 04, 2007 4:30 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

An easier way to get BETA3 of Longhorn Server

David Lowe just pointed out to me that the best way for customers and partners to get Windows Server "Longhorn" is to go to http://www.microsoft.com/getbeta3/ . This way you not only get the bits, but you also get the product key which is really important Read More...
Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 4:32 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

BETA 3 of Windows Server Longhorn SHIPS

Today, Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” Beta3 was announced to the worldwide community of developers, IT Pros, and early-adopter customers. This is a major milestone in the products development, with the public availability of a very stable platform Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:13 AM by neilhut | 4 Comments

Evangelism of the dream

Ever met an Evangelist? Even wondered what we do and how we, as Guy Kawasaki states go through the process of "Selling the Dream". Microsoft evangelists were interviewed for this along with evangelists from Adobe, Ebay, Google, Yahoo, Sun, etc. As an Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:56 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments
 
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