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July 2007 - Posts

More computers running Windows than cars on the road

A stunning tidbit from Ballmer, who spent his childhood in Detroit: Some time next year there will be more computers running Windows than automobiles on the road. Persistence sometimes pays off nicely. Found this in an article on Forbes ' website about Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:17 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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HPC clusters starting to run Windows, not Linux

"Microsoft Windows is emerging as an acceptable operating system for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters in place of Linux, lowering the bar for entry into that space, according to some analysts and major vendors". Read the whole story on TechTarget Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:10 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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HPC Video Interview on Microsoft and OpenSource

Over at the Search and High Performance Computing blog the folks blog about an interview with our very own Ryan Waite, Group Program Manager for High-Performance Computing at Microsoft. How Software is Built is conducting the interview. GO check it out Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:01 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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TechReady is like PDC or TechEd but better

Arriving at the venue in Downtown Seattle I started filming the internal crowd. I'll post the video later. After meeting with old friends from Germany and Singapore I attend the first meeting. Currently I am in a HPC session my coworker Giovanni is delivering. Read More...
Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 2:10 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Off to TechReady

TechReady is one of the most important internal Microsoft event for technical professionals. I started end of last week with pre conference sessions, meetings and activities. Official launch was this morning and I missed already all of the keynotes. Bummer. Read More...
Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 11:10 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Wolf in a Sheep's Clothing

Hide-A-Pod. Hilarious. Thanks Grant . Virtually Yours Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:19 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Wanna be a Simpson

I don't think so. But it is great fun to build your own Simpson Avatar at: http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html . Virtually Yours Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:34 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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How Green Is Viridian?

Today I met with DaveO, an old colleague of mine. He left the company some time ago to pursue his own thing. Now he's kind of back. At least for a project. He recently finished working on an article for Technet about Green Computing. The article should Read More...
Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 7:47 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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VHD Test Drive MOSS images now includes Visio 2007

The VHD test Drive team just finished an updated version of the MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) image and uploaded it to Microsoft Connect . The new version of this image now contains Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 + Microsoft Office Enterprise Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 2:33 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

CCS back on the Top500 list of Supercomputers

From a Microsoft press release : Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 served as the underlying operating system for a new HPC cluster at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, which is a part of one of the largest financial services institutions in Japan. Its expanding Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:57 PM by Volker Will | 2 Comments
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Back in Redmond

After a week in Dresden at ISC'07 and a week off with the parents it is good to be back in Redmond. Especially since it was raining all week in Northern Germany and the weather is so much better here. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:46 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Windows Virtualization Team Blog adds new member

Starting yesterday Jeff Woolsey, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Microsoft Virtualization team started blogging. You can read his first blog post here . If you have not yet subscribed to the team blog. Here's one more good reason. Moving forward Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:46 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
 
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