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(A PDC peek at a Microsoft server container (photos))

Free cooling?Can this contain take advantage of the ambient temperature during the winter? And are their freeze protection measures? RE: (A PDC peek at a Microsoft server container photos)Blooty Marvelous i want that woone !And like mobile phone and microwave and sat base/earth stations i am guessing...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Server, PDC, photograph, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds

Microsoft's way of accomplishing missionI'm not ever going to say "Mission Accomplished".Another VP of cloud at the PDC saying "I'm not going to give a timeframe".I could go and gather more quotes but am too busy to search. All I've got to say is looking good Microsoft (to crash and...

Tags: Ray Ozzie

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Microsoft PDC Live Blog Day Two: IE, Silverlight 4.0 and more

The biggest news here is that MS is losing its grip on developers as they are switching to programming for the web and cross platform tools.Microsoft and its future.The chief software architect not ever going to say "Mission Accomplished".Another VP of cloud at the PDC saying "I'm not going to...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., dotnet, PDC, silverlight

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess

This wasn't cloud computingThis wouldn't have happened with cloud computing. In a cloud architecture users wouldn't have even realized any disruption. They would have automatically been distributed among other non failed geo dispursed instances while the failed instance was automatically restarted on other hardware and restored from replicated data...

Tags: Virtualization, PDC, cloud computing, SideKick, T-Mobile, public relations

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Microsoft PDC 2009: What's on tap for developers this November?

Microsoft PDC 2009: What's on tap for developers this November?Silverlight MobileI hope they finally, finally open up some silverlight mobile goods. My waiting listVisual Studio 2010.WorkFlow 4.0C# 4Oslo.A preview of SilverLight 4 would be nice but probably too much to ask.What about WPF?Hey, Mary Jo,I scanned your post for "WPF"....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Telephony, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

IGES Import for Bricscad 1.0 (Windows)

IGES Import for Bricscad is a plug-in for Bricscad powered applications. IGES Import for Bricscad gives Bricscad the ability to import geometric data from IGES files. IGES files contain graphical data in the form widely accepted by most CAD/CAM systems. IGES Import for Bricscad converts this geometric data into corresponding...

Tags: PDC, blogging

Software downloads 2009-01-02

That "unlocked" Windows 7 taskbar is also unfinished

My hat’s off to blogger Rafael Rivera, who returned from last week’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference and apparently didn’t sleep until he figured out how to unlock the flashy new Superbar interface that Microsoft showed off at PDC but didn't make available to PDC attendees. Rafael's clever hack does indeed...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Rafael, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ed Bott, PDC

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Harnessing a multicore future

Last week's PDC was about more than just Microsoft's new cloud initiative Windows Azure and the next version of Windows (Windows 7). It also concentrated on what Microsoft is doing to assist programmers to tackle the big shift to multi-core computers. Harnessing the power of multi-threaded programming will...

Tags: Multi-core, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll, Processor, Microsoft .NET, Construct, Transistor, LINQ, PDC, Moore, Windows Workflow Foundation

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Windows 7 - user interface is king

Windows 7 places user interface design at the center of the Windows 7 development effort. WPF - Microsoft's new .NET API for Windows user interface development - will also truly come into its own in Windows 7 timeframes. Oh, and WordPad in Windows 7 supports ODF. by John...

Tags: User Interface, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll, Application, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp., PDC, Wordpad

Blog posts 2008-10-30

You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answers

My first look at the pre-beta PDC release of Windows 7 inspired plenty of great feedback and questions, along with an understandable amount of confusion and apprehension. Is it really faster? Is the new desktop/taskbar UI just a fresh coat of paint on the Vista interface? What's in it for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott, Microsoft Windows Vista, PDC

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Windows 7: preview of final user interface and 'studenty' features

It's a difficult and strange time for many in the IT industry. It seems most people from home consumers to students, IT professionals and governments have rejected Windows Vista, and many have their reservations about Windows 7. Will it be another disaster like Vista? Or will it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, PDC, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexedHead in the clouds...So, Microsoft "cloud computing" is another huge boon to IT Departments who want to hire more staff? I wonder if anyone will eventually wake up and realize that IT departments can usually be replaced by a dozen temp...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Databases, Windows Azure, Azure, PDC, Microsoft Corp., data center, server, ISV

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

PDC Keynote One: Live blogging now

PDC Keynote One: Live blogging nowNot the most important thing butThe name is good. Certainly better than the rumored Strata. Azure makes me think of openness, clarity...blue sky. Nice.Two wordsUesless + BoringWaiting for the videosThey are gonna put the videos for these sessions online. That solves my problem for...

Tags: Corporate communications, PDC, Live blogging, blogging

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Next week: All PDC, all the time

Next week: All PDC, all the timeBob Muglia's titleI'm not sure, but I think you have Bob Muglia's job title wrong. According to the official MS blurb (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/bobmuglia/), he's responsible not just for Windows Server but also many other MS server products.thanksYes, his full title is, indeed, Sr. VP...

Tags: Servers, Bob Muglia, PDC, server

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?

Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?Its such a mix mash of thingsA lot of the Services/Cloud efforts Microsoft is spearheading seems too conflicting at times. I personally started to use Live Mesh to store documents and other files, yet it does so many of the things...

Tags: Programming languages, SkyDrive, Microsoft Corp., stand-up

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK

Silverlight snippets from reMIX UKAnother stupid cash cow?Well I hope it's not another milking of the MS cash cow i.e. delaying the release of SL2 until the PDC sells up because seriously .NET devs have been losing out to Flash over the last two years (good news for you, Ryan,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, PDC, reMIX UK, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK

Microsoft held reMIX UK last week in Brighton which as others have noted was an addendum to the MIX conference in Las Vegas which unfortunately came in the shadow of PDC where we should probably see a Silverlight 2 release as well as a bunch of other goodies from Microsoft....

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, PDC, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Oslo and Live Mesh: Will the two platforms ever meet?

Oslo and Live Mesh: Will the two platforms ever meet?Don't extrapolate too much from PDC session descriptionsThe PDC session descriptions, while helpful, probably aren't a stable enough place on which to base conclusions.Proceed with caution.

Tags: session description, Live Mesh, PDC

Discussion threads 2008-09-14

Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7

The incredibly tight veil of secrecy around Windows 7 is about to lift, at least a little. After months of information lockdown, Microsoft is ready to begin talking about the next version of Windows. The first bits of information come from the very top, with a new blog written by...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, PDC, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google

Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than GoogleCreative distruction makes us all stongerI think Ray is right. His biggest competitor is open source. I'm not sure Microsoft will recover unless they learn how to embrace open source. The patent wars they have started make them toxic...

Tags: PDC, open source, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, disruptive competitor, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-28