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Drawing more Microsoft roadmaps

Now that Microsoft has provided an official ship target for Windows 7, the next major version of Windows client, it's time for some educated guess work.Windows 7 is the only piece of the Windows client roadmap for which Microsoft is willing to provide a date right now. Here's what I'd...

Tags: Windows XP, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Windows Midmarket Server, Windows client, Windows 7, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Fiji, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Microsoft readies new 'Centro' mid-market server test build

Microsoft will release within the next few weeks a new Community Technology Preview CTP build of its mid-market server product, code-named "Centro," according to an e-mail sent to selected testers.According to information posted on the Techlog site, the upcoming Centro CTP will incorporate "many new Windows Server 2008 Beta 3...

Tags: Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Windows Midmarket Server, Code names

Blog posts 2007-06-20

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

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

Windows Server 'Centro' and 'Cougar' go to testers

Microsoft has released to testers builds of its next version of Windows Small Business Server (code-named "Cougar") and its first release of Windows Midmarket Server (code-named "Centro"), company officials said on December 19. Microsoft "recently released to a limited set of partners and OEMS a Customer Technology Preview of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Servers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server Longhorn, server, Microsoft Windows, Centro, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server, Cougar

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

Additional Resources

Marathon Technologies everRun 2G and everRun VM Lockstep

I've been meeting to post something on the announcement of Marathon Technologies' everRun 2G and everRun VM Lockstep. I've spoken the the good folks of Marathon on many ocassions in the past (see Marathon Technologies launches everRun VM, Conversation with Marathon Technology and Marathon Technologies launches everRun CDP to catch...

Tags: Availability, Fault-tolerance, Marathon Technologies, 2G, Server Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-30

News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft’s planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-10-02

News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux

Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Pure play open source Microsoft ISV details transformation from proprietary world

One Boston-area enterprise application software vendor detailed its transformation from a proprietary company into a purely open source ISV â€" at Microsoft’s local headquarters last night. Aras Corp, of Andover, Mass, decided last January to begin offering its commercially established multi-platform product lifecycle management PLM...

Tags: Aras Corp., Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Microsoft solicits testers for its Centro midmarket server

Its been a while since Microsoft has talked up its forthcoming version of Windows Server that will be aimed at mid-sized customers. But on October 11, Microsoft broke its silence about "Centro" by sending out a solicitation for Technology Adoption Program TAP partners willing...

Tags: Centro

Blog posts 2006-10-11

What Microsoft still isn't saying about WGA and Volume Activation 2.0

Microsoft lifted the veil – sort of – about its Windows Genuine Advantage WGA and Volume Activation 2.0 plans for Windows Vista and Longhorn Server on October 4. I say “sort of” because Microsoft is providing publicly little more than bare-bones details about these technologies and how they’ll figure in...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Volume Activation

Blog posts 2006-10-04

Microsoft brings roles to the mid-market

Like any company with a strong survival instinct, Microsoft is constantly looking for growth. The latest target is the amorphous mid-market, and Microsoft is launching a major initiative tomorrow Wednesday, trotting out Gates, Ballmer and other executives to deliver the details. Consider this: Microsoft already has a massive mid-market share...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Dynamics

Blog posts 2005-09-06

Microsoft courts midsize firms with server bundle

Microsoft courts midsize firms with server bundleDON"T BUY OUTDATED MICROSOFT BUNDLEHIs is another Microsoft way to monopolize software don't buy it!!!!Why should the Middle Class get a break HERE?"The midmarket was typically paying more than the segment above them and the segment below them."Careful, Billy, if Dubya finds out yer...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2005-07-07

Balmer: Nothing's rotten in Denmark

Balmer: Nothing's rotten in DenmarkGuess i'll go buy some clogs....I don't plan on becoming Danish myself, but the rest of you can. "Let's get up and really go after the Novell base and help them move into the modern age." and what the heck is this?...

Tags: LDAP, Directory services, advertisement, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-07-13