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August 2008 - Posts

Interview with Mark Russinovich: the future of Sysinternals, Security, Windows

David interviewed Mark Russinovich over on TechNet Edge. Don't miss the opportunity to get an inside view into Mark's life (well, his life at Microsoft at least). http://edge.technet.com/Media/Interview-with-Mark-Russinovich-the-future-of-Sysinternals-Security-Windows Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:22 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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More HPC love for developers on the HPC Show

Steven Newhouse and Wenming Ye have spent some time together producing a great series of technical webcasts on Windows HPC Server 2008. Here's the 5 (in words: five) sessions plus a tiny teaser to wet your appetite. Teaser Intro HPC Basic Profile SDK Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 11:22 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

HPC Webcasts in September and October

A bunch of technology webcasts coming your way in September and October. A team of subject matter experts (SMEs) from across the company has put together 3 high value technical webcasts around high performance computing on the Windows platform. The sessions Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 11:13 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Favorite Posts of Week 34

My collection of favorite blog posts from last week in no particular order. Intel backs Microsoft’s concurrent-computing play on Mary-Jo Foley's blog I found the first reference (I'm always a bit late) to Intel's plans on integrating plenty of their Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 10:57 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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IE8 Compatibilities

With IE8 Beta 2 ante portals people start talking more about the next major release of the Internet Explorer. If you followed the discussions on the portal, the forums and blogs , you probably know more than I about what's coming. Be it as is may, I found Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:33 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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SBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!

Congratulations to the team! Fantastic job ! Today Small Business Server (SBS) Standard and Premium are being released to manufacturing. The products will be externally available by our November 12 launch. Check out the team blog for details. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:19 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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VMware now part of SVVP

As seen on The Console , VMware is now part of the SVVP. Welcome to the program! Recently Microsoft made some significant changes to its licensing terms to reflect the increased use of virtualization in datacenters across the globe. Earlier, back in June, Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:39 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Microsoft and Cloud Computing

I was asked by a coworker what I think cloud computing is and if I could recommend some material to get someone started, someone who knows squat about "the cloud". Well, here you go. For many years I work on server platform "stuff" Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:48 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Blue Planet Run

  Thanks Robert . In a post about journalism Robert Scoble points to a book " Blue Planet Run ". In Robert's words: "It’s a stunning book. Shocking." The Rick Smolan book is available for free on Amazon . Spend time assimilating Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:18 AM by Volker Will | 2 Comments
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VHD Test Drive - Update

Time for an update on the VHD Test Drive program. The current program was launched in November 2007. It comes in 2 flavors. The first part allows customers to download and test preinstalled and preconfigured virtual machines from Microsoft via MSDN and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:39 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Hyper-V

"Customers “Get Virtual Now” with increased flexibility and broader support when virtualizing Microsoft server applications." Hard to beat that line from the recent Microsoft press announcement . But what does it mean? Microsoft Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:17 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Confused about Windows Server 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Well, I was when I read a blog post on Mary Joe Foley's blog a few days ago. There's also a later post on her blog clearing up the confusion. Wow, I did even think I missed some changes in direction (again). Thanks Ward for making things clear on the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:24 AM by Volker Will | 2 Comments

SQL Server 2008 Shipped

"Man, is this guy late to the game. The product has been released last Thursday!" you might think. Too late to announce the launch yes but not too late to point you to a nice little video that allows you to be part of the final moments until Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:03 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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WWW 2008

Not what you think. WWW stands for World Water Week . This week is World Water Week. At least for me it almost went completely unrecognized. Thankfully it did not. Almost every night I watch the German news magazine Tagesschau . Old habits. They did a Read More...
Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 1:32 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Favorite Posts of Week 33

My collection of favorite blog posts from last week in no particular order. Technical Books for Multi-Core Software Developers on the Intel (r) Software Network. A great collection of books on multithreaded application development and parallel programming. Read More...
Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 9:47 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Windows 7 Engineering

Wow, the Windows 7 engineering team has just opened the doors to their blog on MSDN. Go to http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/ for the blog and subscribe. Some details about the new blog, its content, the idea behind it and the intended audience from the second Read More...
Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 1:53 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Microsoft Virtualization launch

Mark your calendars, September 8th in Bellevue, WA. If you are in the area, don't miss this opportunity! Microsoft will launch "Microsoft Virtualization". While others build pieces of the puzzle, Microsoft is able to provide the whole picture! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:44 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Try Windows Home Server for Free

Receive a free evaluation copy of Windows Home Server on the Windows Home Server website . In case you are in for the real deal, check out this site and find your local retailer. BTW, Power Pack 1 is now pushed out to existing customers via Windows Update. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:05 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Pixar Celebrates 20 Years of RenderMan at SIGGRAPH 2008

From their press announcement today: "RenderMan Pro Server 14.0 introduces significant performance enhancements including accelerated ray-tracing, faster processing of large polygon datasets, optimized hair performance, faster AOV's, and enhanced Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:19 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

EBS Security, PM Interview and Demo

Before David took off to TechEd South East Asia he posted the latest video in the EBS or Essential Business Server series of videos and screen casts. David is taking an in-depth looks at EBS security and Lingan Satkunanathan, program manager on the Essential Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 6:12 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Windows HPC Server 2008 Head Start

Later this year Microsoft ships the second version of the Windows HPC Server SKU, Windows HPC Server 2008. This product is a real milestone product for Microsoft and – I certainly hope – for the industry as a whole. Tejas Karmarkar a HPC Solution Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 3:59 PM by Volker Will | 9 Comments

Customer ready document on Hyper-V

One of the PMs on the Windows team sent around a list of valuable resources about Hyper-V today. Somebody was asking for technical documents on Hyper-V on an internal email list and Baldwin Ng was kind enough to share some. I am just forwarding this quite Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:50 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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technet Edge in Your local language

With the latest platform update of our IT Pro Community portal TechNet Edge we introduce a bunch of fixes and new features. My favorite is Edge in your local language. Pick your preferred language settings in your profile and off you go. Find out what Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 11:01 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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