Archive for October, 2008

PDC 2008: Windows Azure, Windows 7, Office 14

At PDC 2008, Microsoft announced the availability of an early preview release of the new Windows Azure. this technology enables developers to build apps in the cloud that bridge the enterprise datacenter, and the PC, the Web, and the mobile phone.
Windows Azure is part of the Azure Services Platform - storage, computing, and networking infrastructure [...]

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Windows SP2 for Vista and Server 2008 in Beta

Microsoft announced that the latest service pack for Windows Client and Windows Server is in the works. At the end of October select customers will be recieving access to the beta of SP2 for testing.
The general overview of Service Pack 2:

An update to Windows Vista and Windows Server that, along with improvements delivered to users via Windows Update, [...]

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Office 2007 SP2 – released in early 2009

the Office Sustained Engineering Team has released some additional information on Office 2007 Service Pack 2. The expected availability for Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is between February – April 2009. some of the Service Pack 2 highlights:

file format support / interoperability

Open Document Format (ODF)
XML Paper Specification (XPS)
portable Document Format (PDF) [...]

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Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Released

Microsoft released to manufacturing (RTM’d) System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVmm) 2008 on October 20th, 2008.
The portfolio of technologies we offer spans the entire IT infrastructure from the desktop to the datacenter, while providing the tools for managing a customer’s infrastructure and apps regardless of whether it’s their physical or virtual assets.
Through the SCVMM 2008 [...]

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webcast: MS Consulting on Desktop Deployment

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Join consultants from Microsoft’s Consulting Services.  In this session we’ll discuss our approach to deploying a new desktop to an enterprise environment. We’ll discuss desktop deployment strategies and technologies including the importance of understanding your existing infrastructure and some of the options for auditing your current environment. We’ll also cover some important considerations for [...]

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Hyper-V Server and live migration

Most of you are probably already familiar with “Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V”, in which Hyper-V can be added as a “role” to the Windows Services. This product has been released for a few months now.
What many of you are not familiar with is “Microsoft Hyper-V”, which is a standalone Hypervisor that installs on bare [...]

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big announcements at PDC 2008

There are going to be some big announcements coming from Microsoft beginning with PDC2008, which is being held the week of October 27th, 2008. At PDC they will showcase what’s coming and what’s now here in computing.
cloud computing and Windows 7 will be big topics. keep watching www.microsoftpdc.com.
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