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Microsoft delivers new test build of SQL Server 2008

On the last day of July, Microsoft made available to testers a new Community Technology Preview CTP build of its SQL Server 2008 database, code-named "Katmai."The July CTP build comes one month after the June CTP. Microsoft is expected to test SQL Server 2008 primarily, if not exclusively, via CTPs,...

Tags: Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server, Development tools, Database

Blog posts 2007-08-01

SQL Server 2008 gets a due date

Even though Microsoft is launching SQL Server 2008, code-named "Katmai," in February 2008, the SQL Server 2008 code won't be released to manufacturing until Q2 2008.Until its Worldwide Partner Conference this week, Microsoft officials had said to expect SQL Server 2008 to ship some time in 2008, after a number...

Tags: Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server, Database

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Microsoft to its hosting partners: Get ready. Here we come

At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week, Microsoft officials are trying to walk the tightrope when it comes to explaining Microsoft's plan to get into the managed services business in a major way.Microsoft officials have made no bones about the fact that Microsoft is planning to offer a...

Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Systems integrators, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-07-10

February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch

Microsoft announced at its partner conference on July 10 that it will launch Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 together in a single launch on February 27, 2008, in Los Angeles.Microsoft officials have been saying for a few months now that while the company planned to...

Tags: Database, Development tools, SQL Server, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), Windows server, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Report finds Microsoft customers increasingly leery of Software Assurance

Microsoft subscription maintenance program for its volume licensees has never been overly popular. But according to a new report from Forrester Research, Software Assurance is looking like even less of a good deal to Microsoft customers than before.Microsoft introduced Software Assurance SA in 2001, and has tweaked continually the SA...

Tags: Windows server, Windows client, Support, SQL Server, Office, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-09

Microsoft headed for a services show-down with its hosting partners

Microsoft is on a collision course with its hosting partners.During the past couple of weeks, Microsoft officials have started touting publicly the handful of hosted managed services that Microsoft is selling directly to customers. This week at the NXTcomm 2007 show in Chicago, Microsoft was out hawking its"Microsoft Solution for...

Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, OEMs, Resellers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, System builders, Systems integrators, Telecommunications

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Microsoft's cool naming trend is over

It was a short but good run: Silverlight, Popfly, Surface. But it's over.At TechEd 2007, Microsoft officials announced the final names of "Katmai," the next version of its SQL Server database, and "Orcas," the forthcoming Visual Studio release.Katmai will be known as "Microsoft SQL Server 2008." And Orcas is "Microsoft...

Tags: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), TechEd 2007, SQL Server, Silverlight (wpf/e), Development tools, Database, Corporate strategy, Code names

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Putting lipstick on a cancelled PDC pig

Microsoft announced late on Thursday May 24 that it has cancelled the Professional Developers Conference PDC that was slated for this October.Microsoft said it had decided to "reschedule" the event to some unspecified future date. The notice of the cancellation is on the Microsoft Developer Network MSDN Web site:"As the...

Tags: .Net Framework, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Silverlight (wpf/e), SQL Server, Vista, Windows client

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Microsoft reorgs again

On May 18, Microsoft announced that it is moving its Server and Tools unit out from under Platforms and Services to the Microsoft Business Division MBD. That means Senior Vice President Bob Muglia's group now falls under MBD President Jeff Raikes' organization. Muglia will report directly to Raikes as part...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Database, Development tools, SQL Server

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projects

Microsoft has a lot of database pilots and projects in the works, among them Katmai, Astoria, Jasper and Volta. But how do they all fit together? Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server, explained to me this week how Microsofts growing number of data-programmability pieces will come together...

Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Database, SQL Server, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Microsoft makes it official: SQL Server 'Katmai' due in 2008

Early reports turned out to be true: Microsoft is planning to release the next version of its SQL Server database, which is codenamed "Katmai," in 2008. Microsoft announced officially its target date on May 9, the opening day of its first Business Intelligence conference in Seattle. More than 2,600...

Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Database, SQL Server

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Jasper: Dynamic languages meet dynamic database development

Its code name central at Mix 07 in Las Vegas this week. On May 2 at Microsofts Web 2.0 conference, officials are set to put "Jasper," a k a "Dynamic ADO.Net," through its paces. In a session entitled "Rapidly Building Data Driven Web Pages with Dynamic ADO.Net," Microsoft officials...

Tags: Visual Studio Orcas, SQL Server, MIX07, Development tools, Database, Code names

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Astoria: Another piece of Microsoft's cloud programming model revealed

On Monday at Mix 07, Microsoft revealed yet another piece of its puzzling cloud-programming puzzle: "Astoria." Astoria is a set of patterns and infrastructure for Web data services, explained Pablo Castro, technical lead with Microsofts database group. Castro showed off Microsofts Astoria work during his session on "Accessing...

Tags: Code names, Database, Development tools, Housekeeping, MIX07, Silverlight (wpf/e), SQL Server, Web 2.0, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-04-30

'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?

Next week is Microsofts much-touted Mix 07 conference. Microsoft has been saying for months that the company will share its vision for its Live development platform at the Las Vegas show. No one from Microsoft is ready or willing to talk publicly about the details yet. Soma Somasegar, the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, WPF/e, Windows Live, SQL Server, Research, Google, Database, .Net Framework

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Is Microsoft's Cloud OS actually a Cloud DB?

Microsoft officials have used "Cloud OS" as shorthand to refer to the Windows Live Core, or the platform that will power Microsofts current and forthcoming datacenter-based family of services. But what, exactly, is Microsofts Cloud OS? Is it an operating system OS at all? Microsoft officials have used...

Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, SQL Server, Google, Database, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Microsoft to help other software vendors go the SaaS route

While Microsoft is attempting to distance itself from other software-as-a-service SaaS players, the Redmond software company is trying to help other software makers move to the SaaS distribution model. On April 16, Microsoft unveiled the Microsoft SaaS Incubation Center program -- an initiative designed to match up independent software...

Tags: Web 2.0, SQL Server, Google, Exchange Server, Database, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Microsoft offers $25,000 for best Office-Oracle mash-up

At next weeks Collaborate 2007 Oracle users group conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft is rolling out a contest to encourage developers to integrate Office 2007 with Oracle applications. The winner of the "O 2 OBA Challenge" gets $25,000 to implement the resulting mash-up. (Microsoft also is convening at...

Tags: Office 2007, Office, Dynamics ERP, Database, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Dynamics CRM

Blog posts 2007-04-12

SQL Server 'Katmai' testing to begin in June

Three cheers for the BabelFish translation system. The only words I recognized in this Austrian TechNet blog post were "Katmai" and "SQL Server." After doing a little on-the-fly Web translation, I learned that Microsoft has begun its internal nominating process for signing up testers via its Technology Adoption...

Tags: Database, Code names, SQL Server

Blog posts 2007-04-10

Microsoft adds new hotfix option for SQL Server users

Microsoft is adding a new hotfix option for its SQL Server customers similar to the one it began phasing in for Exchange Server users earlier this year. Microsoft notified SQL Server users on April 5 of a new option -- known as the Incremental Servicing Model -- via which...

Tags: SQL Server, Database, Exchange Server

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Microsoft tweaks its overall product-support timing, delivery

As part of its April update to its Microsoft Support Lifecycle Web site, Microsoft made a couple of adjustments to its security and overall product-support policies. On the security front, Microsoft is moving more of its security fixes and updates under Microsoft Update. As explained on the companys support...

Tags: Windows server, Support, SQL Server, Dynamics ERP, Development tools, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-04-03