“It is? It’s announced? What’s the name?”“Windows 7”“Yeah.. the product that was codename ‘Windows 7’. What’s the official name?”“Windows 7”“Um.. The official name of what was known as ‘Windows 7’ is..”“Windows 7”! Yep. “I’m confused.”That’s the official name now. Windows 7 is now the official name of the product formerly codename “Windows 7”.Check out the … Continue reading Breaking News: Official Name of “Windows 7” Announced
(RTW = Released to Web) For those of you who may not be aware of these, the IPD Guides (Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides) are a series of guides that can help you with your planning. And your design. “Of your Infrastructure?”You got it.And today the team that makes ‘em announced that two new Windows … Continue reading RTW of two new Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides: File Services and Print Services
Yes, it seems like we’re always launching something at Microsoft. You’d think our MSFT stock share price would reflect that. <grin> And currently we have a series of free events all around Virtualization (Hyper-V, App-V, SCVMM, Oh my!)From October 10 through November 17, 2008, in the United States, there are eleven different events: Date City … Continue reading Let’s Get Virtual. Free events to help you “Get Virtual NOW”.
If you’re into troubleshooting network traffic, and are a real “packet-head”, then this news is for you.. On Monday the team that creates and updates the NETMON (Network Monitor) tool announced that the new version 3.2 is now available. Check out this blog announcement for the details on what’s new and improved. And you can … Continue reading New Network Monitor Version Available
RTM = Released to Manufacturing It’s a big week! Not only is Microsoft releasing an update to the Zune software today, but yesterday (September 15, 2008) the newest offering of Server products – this time specifically for mid-sized businesses – is released: Essential Business Server 2008 “Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is an enterprise-class server … Continue reading Breaking News: Essential Business Server 2008 is RTM!
“Hey Kevin.. the TechNet Events site has been pretty bare lately. Aren’t you guys doing any live events?”Yeah.. unfortunately this is the time of year at Microsoft where budgets are being finalized and plans put in place accordingly. And we can’t plan out our schedule until all of those “ducks are in a row”. This … Continue reading Events! We got ‘em!
(RTM = Released to Manufacturing)Yes indeed.. today the newest version of the best database software platform anywhere reached a major milestone. It’s ready! You can read the PressPass announcement here.And here is the official press location for all things SQL Server.And of course, here is the SQL Server home page.And finally – if you’re a … Continue reading Breaking News: SQL Server 2008 is RTM!
I learned about this a couple weeks ago – and now it’s live. And in my opinion, it’s super cool, and WAY OVERDUE.http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/I personally LOVE THIS. But what do you think?
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