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Windows Foundation Server

So Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer "revealed" today that his company will ship something called Foundation Server this year: In today’s Strategic Update Meeting for Wall Street, Steve Ballmer spoke of a future Windows Server Family SKU, Windows Server 2008 Foundation, disclosing rough pricing and...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-24-2009
Windows 7: the untold story of how the enterprise gets snubbed

Julie Bort over at Network World interviewed me for a piece on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, specifically how they do or do not interact. My feeling on this is that the Windows 7/R2 “better together” story is a little on the weak side, that Windows 7 is more of a consumer release than a business...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-23-2009
Windows Search Advanced Query Syntax

Microsoft can and should be credited with being the first of the mainstream OS makers to announce and then implement system-wide instant search functionality in its operating systems. And now, years later, Windows Vista/7, and 2008 users (and XP and 2003 users, via an add-on) know the wonders of what's...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-20-2009
Windows 7 Beta Network Performance

David Travis posts some interesting Windows 7 network file copy performance results . You may recall that I had noticed some issues with network file copies myself, and Microsoft was curious about this. In my case, the copies were all to Windows Home Server, which is based on Windows Server 2003. And...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-14-2009
Public release of Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 SP2 Beta 2

If you’ve been waiting to test the beta 2 version of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, your time has come. There are separate 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) versions available for interested parties. Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Beta and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-05-2008
What’s new in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2?

There’s been some confusion about what is included in Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. For example, I saw somewhere that Hyper-V is supposedly added to Windows Vista in this release. It is not. Here’s what’s new: Windows Vista Inclusion of Windows Search 4.0 for improved...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-02-2008
WinHEC 2008: Microsoft announces support for 256 processors in Windows Server 2008

Which is odd, since I wrote about this two weeks ago . Anyway. :) Here’s the word from Microsoft: The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) continued in Los Angeles today with a keynote from Bill Laing, corporate vice president, Windows Server and Solutions Division. Laing announced in the...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-06-2008
PDC 2008: Microsoft Unveils the Windows Azure Cloud OS

This will be in WinInfo tomorrow, but in the interest of expediency… PDC 2008: Microsoft Unveils the Windows Azure Cloud OS During the opening keynote address for its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 in Los Angeles on Monday morning, Microsoft revealed that its cloud computing platform,...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-27-2008
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta

I’ve already posted some early screenshots of the first external build of Windows Vista Service Pack 2, but it looks like Microsoft is trying to muscle in on my action now. :) Here’s the word from Mike Nash : We are committed to continually improving Windows, and we've been getting some questions...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-24-2008
Microsoft RTMs Virtual Machine Manager 2008

From Zane Adam , Director of Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft: I’m writing today to announce the exciting news that we’ve released to manufacturing (RTM’d) System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and to talk a bit about its critical role in the broad set of virtualization offerings from Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-21-2008

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