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Stuff mostly about Windows Fundamentals Also chirping at: https://twitter.com/volkerw

My 2 favorite Windows 7 blog posts

I have more than 2 but these two are at the top. Brandon Live: Windows 7 Beta hotkey cheat sheet...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 02/19/2009

MIX09 “On The Cheap”

There’s so much exciting stuff planned for Mix this year that even a (server) OS guy like myself...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 02/19/2009

Saving Money in Tough Economic Times with UC

In tough economic times like today everyone is looking for new and better ways to save money to...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 02/12/2009

Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Application Quality Cookbook

The well known guide for developers has been updated. Find most relevant information about...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 02/10/2009

Gartner’s Top 10 for 2009

Good summary of the predictions for 2009 on the Government Technology portal. The one I am most...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 02/10/2009

32-bit optional in Windows Server 2008 R2

You may not but have have been waiting for a looong time for this to be happening. We finally ship...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 02/09/2009

New Show on Channel9

The Channel9 team launched a new show about Microsoft on Channel9. I would call it Microsoft History...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 02/06/2009

Windows Backup/Restore from a network location

The Core Team has posted really helpful information on how to use Windows Server backup to run a...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 02/06/2009

Windows HPC powering Eve Online

Massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) Eve Online powered by Windows HPC Server 2008.  ...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 02/05/2009

Sleep and Hibernate in Windows Server with Hyper-V installed

With Windows Server 2008 R2 you can enable hibernate and sleep even though the Hyper-V role is...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 01/22/2009

Inauguration on Silverlight

Today I watched the inauguration of president Obama on a website sporting a Silverlight player, in...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 01/20/2009

Certification for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Bruce Kyle on the US ISV evangelism team has written 2 valuable posts about Logo certification and...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 01/20/2009

MIX09 – What happens in Vegas changes the (Web-) World

I love clear Call-To-Action blog posts. Here’s one from me. If you are doing stuff on the web. Be it...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 01/20/2009

NUMA in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Phil just posted a series of videos/screencasts on Channel9 explaining the concepts of NUMA...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 01/15/2009

Windows 7 – Beta Drivers for Microsoft Hardware

If you are running a beta version of the Windows 7 operating system, the following information can...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 01/13/2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 for developers

If you read this you might have seen a previous post with links to the downloads for Windows 7 and...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 01/13/2009

Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta

Right after Windows 7 beta now the beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 is available too. For...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 01/09/2009

Windows HPC Kit available Today

Wenming has collected the most valuable Windows HPC Server 2008 technical resources in one place,...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 10/21/2008

New Benefits for HPC Audiences on Innovate On

InnovateOn is a central resource to help you build, test, and market your solution based on...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 10/09/2008

Life – as an evangelist – is hard, isn’t it?

Always seeking new ways to reach out to your community; trying to grow it. Constant stream of cool...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 10/03/2008

Month of Parallelism

That is on MSDN Magazine. This month is full of great stuff about parallel programming on the...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 10/02/2008

Microsoft Solver Foundation CTP released

A Solver Foundation program is a declarative model embedded in familiar NETfx design patterns and...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/29/2008

SAP officially supports Hyper-V

Colleagues over at SAP have done an awesome job and provide a lot of information and guidance on how...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/25/2008

Windows HPC Server 2008 for Free

Well, almost. It might have gotten lost in the buzz around the official launch of our V2 product on...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/24/2008

Microsoft Employee Transportation

Starting on October 6th the Microsoft Connector bus service will expand its number of lines. In the...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/24/2008

meet me in LA

Is the slogan for the Microsoft PDC2008. I’ll be there and I don’t need any special reason. The...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/23/2008

Testdrive Windows HPC Server 2008

As part of the IBM Deep Computing initiative you can now test drive Windows HPC Server 2008 without...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/23/2008

One more good reason to go 64-Bit

On Windows. Yesterday Adobe announced that the latest Adobe Creative Suite 4 will come with full...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/23/2008

Favorite Posts of Week 38

What’s going on with me. First no favorites in 3 weeks and now one day late for last weeks...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/23/2008

Windows HPC Server 2008 is available today

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its latest version of the HPC platform Windows...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/22/2008

Buy a Cray Supercomputer for USD 25000

No way you think? Think again. Microsoft and Cray have joined forces to create an offer the HPC...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/16/2008

Favorite Posts of Weeks 35, 36 and 37

Oh my. I've been back from vacation for over a week now and still haven't gotten through all my...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 09/15/2008

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...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/25/2008

HPC Webcasts in September and October

A bunch of technology webcasts coming your way in September and October. A team of subject matter...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/25/2008

Favorite Posts of Week 34

My collection of favorite blog posts from last week in no particular order. Intel backs...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/25/2008

IE8 Compatibilities

With IE8 Beta 2 ante portals people start talking more about the next major release of the Internet...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/21/2008

SBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!

Congratulations to the team! Fantastic job! Today Small Business Server (SBS) Standard and Premium...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/21/2008

VMware now part of SVVP

As seen on The Console, VMware is now part of the SVVP. Welcome to the program! Recently Microsoft...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/21/2008

Microsoft and Cloud Computing

I was asked by a coworker what I think cloud computing is and if I could recommend some material to...

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/20/2008

VHD Test Drive - Update

Time for an update on the VHD Test Drive program. The current program was launched in November 2007....

Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/19/2008

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