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Nigel Watson, an Architect Advisor at Microsoft, based in Melbourne Australia.

December 2005 - Posts

Team Foundation Server: 2000 Users? No worries!
Just up on Brian Harry's blog in the last couple of days: load-testing results show that TFS will happily scale to accomodate development teams of up to 2000 developers. This was on a split app/data tier config, with 2Way/4GB in the app tier and 4Way/16GB Read More...
"Java is the new COBOL"
My mate Hugh just spent a weekend hanging out in Melbourne with Princess and I. Hugh works for an Australian company who build FIX (Financial Information eXchange) engines and assorted ancilliary software products. This generally means that he spends Read More...
Windows Server 2003 R2 RTMs
News just in this morning... Windows Server 2003 R2 has been released to manufacturing. This is great news, and is a fantastic stepping stone for the Windows group towards building Longhorn Server. You can get more info on R2 here . Read More...
New architecture podcast series from channel 9: ArcTalk
The first episode of Ron Jacob's new ArcTalk podcast series is available now at Channel 9 . In the first podcast, Ron talks with Steve Cook from Microsoft's UK-based Software Tools Group about Microsoft's take on Model Driven Architecture - and how Domain Read More...
December interim community drop of EntLib for FX2.0 released
The EntLib team have released an interim drop of EntLib for FX2.0. This release is source only - i.e. no docs or MSI's - but does include the long-awaited new configuration tool. This drop is a near-complete version of the final release... according to Read More...
Office 2003, and Windows XP now support reo Maori... choice!
Just announced this week - Reo Maori Language Interface Packs (LIPs) for Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Office System 2003. This was the result of a collaborative effort between Waikato University, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori, and Microsoft New Read More...
WinFX November CTP available... but how much do I have to download again?
As you probably know, we've released the WinFX November CTP - this is the version that works with the release version of VS2005. The question came up at the VDNAUG meeting the other night (which was an excellent meeting by the way, thanks to all who attended!) Read More...
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