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- How will Windows Server 2008 fare on the compatibility front?
- Windows Server 2008, a k a Longhorn Server, isn't expected to be released to manufacturing till the end of this year. But that doesn't mean it's too early to start thinking about compatibility issues that might arise.Microsoft, for its part, already is thinking about it -- and has been doing...
- Tags: Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy, App Compatibility
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Microsoft steps up its green datacenter campaign
- Green computing is a hot topic these days. And "Big Green" a k a Microsoft wants to make sure its next-gen Windows Server products are among the greenest of them all.As a result of power-management tweaks it has made to its software, Microsoft is expecting Windows Server 2008 systems to...
- Tags: Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Windows Server team: No detours from the roadmap
- The Windows client team may have decided that it's done talking futures. But the Windows Server team isn't afraid to show off its planned roadmap.At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC on May 16, Microsoft officials talked about the company's next few planned releases. As previously indicated, Microsoft is readying...
- Tags: Fiji, Corporate strategy, Code names, Vista, Windows 7, Windows client, Windows Midmarket Server, Windows server, Windows Server Longhorn, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Longhorn Server to be christened Windows Server 2008
- To next to no ones surprise, Microsoft is going to christen Longhorn Server "Windows Server 2008." And it might do so as early as next week to coincide with the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC in Los Angeles. How can I be so sure? Microsoft posted the new...
- Tags: WinHEC, Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Microsoft postpones 'Viridian' virtualization features
- Microsoft has postponed a handful of its "Viridian" hypervisor features in order to maintain its goal of delivering the technology as an add-on to Longhorn Server within 180 days of Longhorn Servers shipment. In a May 10 blog post, General Manager of Virtualization Strategy Mike Neil, acknowledged that Microsoft...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Virtualization, Windows server, Windows Server Longhorn
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- VMware attacks Microsoft virtualization strategy
- Microsoft is "trying to restrict customers flexibility and freedom to choose virtualization software by limiting who can run their software and how they can run it." Those are the charges levied by Microsoft virtualization competitor VMware, which over the past few days, has come out swinging against Microsoft. ...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Virtualization, Vista, Windows server, Windows Server Longhorn
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- My top 10 Microsoft event picks for 2007
- Im sure Ill be adding more to this as the year rolls along, but heres my list of must-attend Microsoft events. (Some of these -- like the MVP Summit and MGX -- I am not authorized to attend. But I still consider them key for anyone watching the...
- Tags: Housekeeping, Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Database, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Office, Management tools, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: Centro
- Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead -- there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest....
- Tags: Code names, SQL Server, Windows Midmarket Server, Windows server, Corporate strategy, Windows Server Longhorn, Centro Best guess, codename, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-12-30
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: Carmine
- Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead -- there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), codename, Carmine Best guess, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- Microsoft products, people and strategies that disappeared in 2006
- Quite a few of the e-mails I receive start out with "Whatever happened to ... (insert Microsoft product, person and/or strategy here). In that spirit, here are ten Microsoft-related disappearances about which Im left wondering as 2006 draws to a close. Anyone know the whereabouts of:...
- Tags: SQL Server, System Center, Management tools, Research, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Corporate strategy, Database, Windows Live, Windows Server Longhorn, Knowledge Network, Dynamic Systems Iniative, Microsoft Corp., Cambridge Technology Partners
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: Quattro
- Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead -- there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest....
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., codename, Quattro Best guess, server, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Microsoft still has more OS tricks up its sleeve
- Over the past couple of days, theres been much made of Gartner Groups prediction that Windows Vista will be "the last big release of Windows." Thats a pretty sweeping -- and vague -- prediction. How is Gartner defining "big"? And what will count as an "operating system release," going forward?...
- Tags: operating system, Microsoft Corp., Corporate strategy, Windows Live, Windows server, Windows client, Windows Server Longhorn, Vista
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Vista RTM marks the end of an era
- The expected announcement on November 8 of the release to manufacturing RTM of Windows Vista is a milestone on many fronts. For one, it’s the end of the Jim Allchin era and the start of the Steven Sinofsky one, in terms of Windows leadership at Microsoft. On October 18,...
- Tags: Vista, Windows Server Longhorn, Windows client, Windows server, Windows Live, Corporate strategy, Windows XP, Windows Mobile
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
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- Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November
- Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ($999), 2.93GHz Core i7-940 ($562) and 2.66GHz Core i7-920 ($284). Nehalem is manufactured using the same 45nm...
- Tags: Desktop, Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Nehalem, Server Processor, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
- I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...
- Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Are there really too many Windows editions?
- Ask any Windows pundit about all the different versions of Windows Vista that Microsoft offers and you'll invariably get the same response. There are too many! Consumers are confused! It all needs to be simplified! To which I say: Be careful what you wish for. The case for reducing the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Edition, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
- Today I am launching a new series, "Microsoft Big Brains." Over the course of the coming weeks, I'll be profiling Microsoft's Technical Fellows -- the 22 or so individuals who are helping to fill Chairman Bill Gates' shoes at the company, in terms of setting Redmond's future product/strategy agenda. The...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Search, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'
- Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview CTP form at the Professional Developers Conference PDC, by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Models, Research & Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
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