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Thursday, September 03, 2009 8:04 AM

The last day of VMworld

Well, today is the last day of VMworld.  I have had a great time talking to all the people here, learning what they are doing with VMware and talking about how Microsoft can help them out.  I have copious notes and thoughts that you can expect
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 2:58 PM

VMworld: Is it a Scalability Issue to run Drivers in the Hyper-V Parent Partition? (Answer: No)

I am sitting in the VMworld session “TA3880 - Head-To-Head Comparison: VMware vSphere and ESX vs. Hyper-V and XenServer”. It is interesting to listen to VMware’s perspective on this. One point that they have raised – which I have heard before – is that
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:42 AM

VMworld Keynote – Day #2

I have just finished watching Steve Herrod’s keynote – which I must say – I found far more enjoyable than Paul’s keynote yesterday.  I am not going to try and summarize the whole keynote – but I do want to dive in on one part. There was a section
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 4:05 PM

Why Virtual PC Guy?

The other day I wrote up the story of how I became Virtual PC Guy .  One question that I left unanswered in that post was why I chose Connectix Virtual PC over VMware Workstation.  Today I would like to elucidate on this question. Before I get
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:36 AM

Heading out to VMworld

I have just seen my children off to their first day of school.  My bag is packed, and I am currently watching the VMworld keynote online before heading out to the airport.  I should be arriving at VMworld around 3pm this afternoon I was worried
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:31 AM

VMworld keynote thoughts

I have just finished watching the VMworld keynote online. Here are some of my rough thoughts: There was a moment when Paul was talking about VMware “providing a set of management products targeted to specific scenarios”. When he said this the display
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Monday, August 31, 2009 6:00 AM

VMworld Update (and how to win a free Zune HD)

Today is the first day of VMworld.  Unfortunately I will not be there until tomorrow – so today I just have to sit here impatiently and follow the event vicariously online.  In the mean time I do have a few updates: First – I now have my final
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:36 AM

What’s up with all the angst / mud slinging?

Over the last couple of months, there has been a rise in discussion between Microsoft and VMware online. While both sides certainly have many moderate bloggers who are conducting civil and constructive conversations, both sides are also guilty of getting
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Friday, August 21, 2009 3:42 PM

Hyper-V versus Desktop Computing

Some of my colleagues were talking to me about this blog entry this morning where Emmanuel is commenting on the inability to run Hyper-V on a system with high end graphics (as discussed here ). Before I talk about my thoughts / reactions here – I want
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:51 AM

My VMworld Schedule

I finally got signed up for various sessions at VMworld.  Unfortunately – I took too long, so there are some that I would like to have attended that were filled up already.  Also, I will not be at VMworld for Monday and the first part of Tuesday,
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Monday, August 10, 2009 2:17 PM

Virtual PC Guy at VMworld US 2009

For the first time ever, I will be attending VMworld this year.  Long time readers of my blog will know that, historically, I only talk about Microsoft’s virtualization products – and not about other virtualization software.  This has been a
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