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Project Encore is yet another illustrative example of solution providers adapting their products to heterogeneous environments, and customers depending on mixed source IT infrastructures. A Citrix initiative, Project Encore is designed to enhance Microsoft Hyper-V. The promise is that Citrix Essentials take the virtu... |
24 February 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Windows 7 is alone in its evolution from Beta to release Candidate. Even with increasing reports that Windows 7 (7048) Build 6.1.7048.winmain_win7rc1.090211-1625 is actually fake, fact is that Microsoft is already cooking RC-branch builds of the next iteration of Windows beyond 7000, which was the Beta version number... |
20 February 2009
03:55 GMT |
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At the start of 2009, Microsoft made available the first update package for a suite of solutions with Windows Server 2008 at the core. Windows Small Business Server 2008 Update Rollup 1 went live in January 2009 and was released to Windows Update. According to the Redmond giant, the Update Rollup is set up to integra... |
19 February 2009
05:32 GMT |
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As a rule, Microsoft is offering tools and resources designed for developers to build applications on top of Windows client and Server operating systems via the Download Center. However, Microsoft has taken the measure of offering the latest Windows Software Development Kits through an alternative channel that rules ... |
18 February 2009
12:13 GMT |
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Microsoft revealed that users of its hypervisor and Windows Server 2008 operating system have cut costs, on average, by approximately half a million dollars per year. The Redmond company even managed to produce a few examples starting with the Indiana University’s Auxiliary IT Department, which deployed virtual... |
10 February 2009
06:18 GMT |
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The first quasi-public post-Beta release of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is available for download after having been leaked to popular BitTorrent websites. Microsoft is making headway with the development of the second Service Pack for Windows Vista, albeit Windows 7 Beta is inherently stealing all the limelight. At ... |
6 February 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Offered as a new Microsoft Services Premier Support add-on, Premier Mission Critical Support is available worldwide as of February 3, 2009. Premier Support is tailored to the needs of enterprise customers and was designed in order to deliver support for mission-critical solutions. In this manner, the Redmond company ... |
3 February 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Microsoft might very well claim that Windows 7 Server Beta is designed to be deployed exclusively for testing and not production environments, but the company has an entirely different set of rules when it comes down to its own infrastructure. While letting the world test drive Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta, the softwa... |
2 February 2009
11:52 GMT |
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Microsoft has been labeled as one of the leaders among the companies providing application infrastructure, according to market analysis firm Gartner. The Redmond company applauded its positioning in the Leaders quadrant of four Gartner Magic Quadrants: the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Bac... |
28 January 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available what the company referred to as new comprehensive resources for Internet Information Services version 7.0. Put together by the IIS development team, the new technical reference on IIS 7.0 configuration can now be accessed straight from Microsoft. The promise of the Redmond compa... |
26 January 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Windows Server 2008 will benefit from cost-effective fault tolerance via a partnership between Microsoft and Marathon Technologies Corporation. The two companies announced that their existing collaboration was extended with a focus on satisfying the fault tolerant and high-availability computing needs for business cu... |
12 January 2009
04:58 GMT |
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With SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 available as a Beta since the start of December 2008, Microsoft continues to deal with the isolated SP1 issues outside the service pack cycle. An illustrative example in this context is an issue that causes Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 to fail bo... |
29 December 2008
05:40 GMT |
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Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista extends the operating system's support for drivers that play nice with all Windows operating systems. Even as early as the first Beta of SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, the upgraded Windows Driver Model is permitting developers to get a taste of what the gold bits ... |
28 December 2008
14:01 GMT |
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Just as it was the case with Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista RTM, the integration of Service Pack 2 into the operating system is not always a smooth and streamlined experience. In fact, even with the Beta of Windows Vista SP2, Microsoft has warned of installation problems related to the deployment of both the standa... |
23 December 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Microsoft is not only hard at work on the evolution of Windows Vista by building Service Pack 2, but also hammering away at previous releases of the operating system, namely the RTM and SP1 builds. In this regard, the December 2008 Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Update is designed to ... |
15 December 2008
09:04 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista delivers an evolution in terms of compatibility, reliability, and performance, as compared with Service Pack 1. This albeit, the Redmond company did characterize Vista SP2 as nothing more than a standard service pack with no major changes under-the-hood or on t... |
12 December 2008
15:11 GMT |
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In addition to making Windows Vista SP2 Beta along withWindows Server 2008 SP2 Beta available for download, Microsoft is also serving the bits for the second service pack designed for its Windows client and server operating systems via Windows Update. However, the Redmond company is not offering Service Pack 2 Beta a... |
10 December 2008
08:59 GMT |
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Although the Server Message Block remote file was originally introduced in the 1980's, the first major overhauling it suffered was with the availability of Windows Vista RTM in 2007. SMB2, as it was labeled in Vista RTM, was subsequently updated the following year, with the introduction of Windows Vista Service ... |
9 December 2008
10:10 GMT |
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Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again. Until Window 7 drops, users will be able to get their hands on Windows Vista Service Pack 2, currently planned fo... |
6 December 2008
06:59 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering for download not only the first fully-fledged Beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 2, but also for Windows Server 2008 SP2. Starting with Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008, the Redmond company joined its client and server operating systems at the hip. With a common codebase, the two platforms now... |
5 December 2008
10:41 GMT |
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When it comes down to securing sensitive data, Windows Server 2008, via Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS), will integrate closely with RSA’s DLP Suite 6.5, as of later this month. The move is an integral part of a much wider strategy of the Redmond company to help customers not only bo... |
5 December 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Forget Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2 is here already. Well, at least the Beta build. In the second half of October 2008, Microsoft delivered the first taste of Vista SP2 to a small pool of customers, as an integral part of the service pack's Technology Adoption Program. Starting on December 2, the... |
3 December 2008
04:46 GMT |
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As far as the next milestones in the evolution of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are concerned, Microsoft will only confirm officially that the second Service Pack for both the Windows client and Serve operating systems will be made available in the first half of the next year. Having joined Vista and Windows ... |
26 November 2008
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Microsoft has announced a partnership with HP, in a new move designed to support the company's vision of taking virtualization mainstream. The agreement spans from products to sales and to services, with the two companies committing to collaborating in order to lower costs and increase efficiency for Information... |
17 November 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Following the release of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has made it increasingly easy for customers to access and test-drive its latest iterations of Windows client and server platforms. First off, both operating systems offer an extensive trial-base period, Vista of up to 120 days, and Windows Serv... |
11 November 2008
07:40 GMT |
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Microsoft is now one step closer to Apache with its own Internet Information Services. This because the Redmond company made available for download the bits of the Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 RTW (released to web). Essentially, the URL rewrite module replicates the extension functionality already availab... |
11 November 2008
05:29 GMT |
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The latest version of the Microsoft solution accelerator designed to streamline the migration to Windows Vista (including SP1) and Windows Server 2008, but also additional products and technologies, is available for download. At the TechEd EMEA 2008 conference in Barcelona, Brad Anderson, General Manager of the Manag... |
4 November 2008
15:01 GMT |
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The TechEd EMEA 2008 conference is the stage where Microsoft introduced Windows Server 2008 Remote Desktop Services as the evolution of Terminal Services. In the next iteration of the Windows Server operating system, the Redmond giant has labored in order to enable a new level for remote workers scenarios. This is wh... |
4 November 2008
07:57 GMT |
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The Security Development Lifecycle is in no way synonymous with Microsoft's entire span of efforts designed to bulletproof its software products and consumer environments. An illustrative example of this is the Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 4.0. Built as the evolution of Microsoft Security Risk Self-Assessm... |
17 October 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Microsoft made available for download the first service pack for Windows Vista on March 18, 2008, this even though the bits had been released to manufacturing as early as February 4, 2008. At the same time, the Redmond company has moved to the next step in the evolution of the Windows client, onward to Service Pack 2... |
15 October 2008
14:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is advertising offerings built around its Windows client and server operating systems to a 1 million strong audience made up of small businesses. In the software company's perspective, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are applauded as cost-saving technologies. Microsoft is of course betting on the... |
15 October 2008
05:23 GMT |
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Network Access Protection is designed to permit a high degree of control over client computers across a network. A critical feature of Windows Server 2008, NAP is now also supported by Windows Vista RTM and Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. But deploying NAP is not exactly an effortless task. However, Mi... |
13 October 2008
11:00 GMT |
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The Beta bits of Web Platform Installer were made available for download on October 1, 2008, as Microsoft attempted to actually deliver on the promise of an integrated web platform by centralizing its various components in a single location. Designed to integrate seamlessly not only with Windows Vista RTM/Service Pac... |
10 October 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has made a new release of the Windows operating system available for download for free. The Redmond company is offering the gold bits of the next iteration of its Windows embedded platform via the Download Center as of October 8, 2008. Windows Embedded Standard 2009 was packaged as WES2009Eval.iso, an offer... |
9 October 2008
05:31 GMT |
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The Windows 2008 Server Core Configurator, as the label implies, is a tool designed to integrate with the latest iteration of the Windows Server operating system from Microsoft in Server Core deployments scenarios. Windows Server 2008 comes with the option of performing just a bare-bone installation with a mini... |
3 October 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Microsoft is bridging the gap between the latest versions of the Windows client and server operating systems and its web platform. At the end of September, the Web Platform Installer Beta went live on the Microsoft Download Center. Available for download in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, Web Platform Installer Beta ... |
1 October 2008
14:11 GMT |
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There is an intimate connection between technology and sustainability as far as small businesses are concerned. The conclusion was presented via a KRC Research survey commissioned by Microsoft. The Redmond giant revealed that for small businesses, deploying green IT solutions is a move which would result in cutting d... |
30 September 2008
07:59 GMT |
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Windows Essential Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. On September 15, Eric Kidd – General Manager EBS, announced that the English version of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 went gold, with the promise that additional languages would follow soon. The Redmond giant is now ready to off... |
16 September 2008
06:53 GMT |
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At the Microsoft Virtualization Launch on September 8, 2008, the Redmond giant delivered the first public demonstration of Windows 7 Server, the codename for Windows Server 2008 R2. The software company is developing Windows 7 Server and the Windows 7 Client in parallel but essentially based on the same core. And jus... |
9 September 2008
09:45 GMT |
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The debut of September 2008 marked the one year anniversary of the Microsoft and Cisco marriage on the interoperability front. The two companies permitted customers to dictate the next move in their competitive "ballet," and in this regard kicked up a notch the interoperability level of Cisco hardware and Microsoft s... |
4 September 2008
08:48 GMT |
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Microsoft is committed to virtualization for the long haul, with a focus on democratizing the technology. As far as the Redmond giant is concerned, with the debut of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, its efforts to make virtualization mainstream have been kicked up a notch. But the hypervisor in the Windows Server op... |
2 September 2008
09:13 GMT |
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 have issues integrating as guest operating systems on computers powered by multiple processors. According to Microsoft, virtualized copies of the latest versions of its Windows client and server operating systems can cause the virtual machine to restart and... |
2 September 2008
07:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has informed of an issue impacting both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (but not RTM) and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 on machines with AMD SB700 Southbridge chipsets installed. According to the Redmond giant, both the latest versions of its Windows client and server operating systems may crash when placed into... |
1 September 2008
09:09 GMT |
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Microsoft might have discontinued the download pages for Windows Vista RTM Enterprise, and Vista Enterprise plus Office 2007, packaged as virtual hard disks, as the bits continue to be available from its servers, the company is now also offering free trial versions of Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise edition. Just a... |
22 August 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Even as a new player on the virtualization market, Microsoft has touted intentions to democratize the technology. Despite the perception of a revolutionary novelty, virtualization in fact dates back all the way to the 1970's mainframes. However, the technology has so far failed to gain sufficient traction, despi... |
22 August 2008
07:52 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to detail more and more information related not only to Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, but also to the other Windows 7 cooking over in Redmond, namely the first minor evolution from Windows Server 2008. And while mum's no longer the word on Windows 7, even though all informati... |
21 August 2008
08:54 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 SP1/RTM can run into very rare problems when it comes down to integration with hardware components connected via a PCI Express interface. The Redmond giant described an issue occurring only at restart in which cards failing to play nice... |
21 August 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is indeed starting to deliver an increasing volume of details related to the upcoming Windows 7 client and Windows 7 Server releases, but the end of 2009/ the debut of 2010 is still not even on the horizon, and neither are the next iterations of the Windows platforms. And with Windows XP available only on u... |
19 August 2008
12:16 GMT |
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Microsoft offered official confirmation that it is hard at work cooking a pair of Windows 7 releases at the end of 2009, but no later than January 2010. The Windows 7 client, and the successor of Windows Vista, had its development process already confirmed to be scoped three years following the general release of its... |
19 August 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed that the upgrade it is currently pushing automatically via Windows Update for the search infrastructure in the Windows operating systems has problems integrating with some copies of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. However, according to a member of the Microsoft Update team, the fault lies ... |
18 August 2008
09:28 GMT |
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