Good post from the DS blog below, thanks to Ned Pyle .. The long-awaited Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) have been released for Windows Vista. These will allow administrators to use their Vista machines to manage their Windows 2000, Windows...

Windows Live now offers a translator for web pages as well as normal text. Try it out -> http://translator.live.com/

Microsoft strengthens anti-malware protection with leading-edge rootkit detection provider. REDMOND, Wash. — March 20, 2008 — Today Microsoft Corp. announced it has acquired Maryland-based Komoku Inc., a provider of advanced rootkit security detection...

Just a last reminder to current MCSA/MCSE 2000 holders, you have until March 31st 2008 to sit the two exams (70-292 & 70-296) to upgrade to MCSA/MCSE 2003. These and other exams are being retired . Info on upgrading to the Windows 2008 certs are here...

Bit of deja vu here, been a while (or an OS or two) since I discussed defrag seriously. Nice article from the performance team talking about defrag . Recently installed the new version of diskeeper on my Vista machine, pleased to say I could actually...

Coming Soon ... FAQ The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space telescopes to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe...

As most people know, Internet Explorer 8 beta has been released, Home Page for IE 8 Nice VHD download for testing, so you don't have to touch your day to day machine, VirtualPC available here Some images of the beta (from Microsoft site)

The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common interest...

Nasty little Windows hack using Firewire (disable in System properties if not using), just to remind us how many more problems physical access can allow, following on the memory cooling exploit which actually compromised Windows, Mac & Linux, blog...

Interesting, one of the big strenghs of the Windows Mobile platform being shared. Microsoft has announced it will license ActiveSync functionality to allow Apple's devices to sync with Exchange Server for mail, calendar, etc. Press release here

New OS, normal questions, how do I add a DC? which apps don't work? etc. Nice starting article from WindowsITPro site here

Vista's CompletePC backup allows you to backup to VHD (the standard for Microsoft's Virtual Hard Drives, used with VirtualPC/Server & Hyper-V). You can mount it, nice article here on how to use the Mount VHD tool to set up a double click mount. Unfortunately...

Was reminded again of how Codecs can be a pain at the worst time, was helping with our pre launch event and someone wanted to play a video on the screens with an old XP loaner, of course no codec for the video .. so for all of us with the same problem...

Not everyone knows it, but Microsoft is a lot more involved in "Open Source" and standards over the last few years. Projects like Port25 , Microsoft's partnership anouncements with Novell, the Open Specifications Promise , and Microsoft's adoption of...

Interesting blog around the SDL, this one I've preached a bit for a while. When discussing OS security issues, it's not about who's OS has 3 vulnerabilities this month vs. 4 for the next guy, it's about how we in the industry are trying/striving to fix...

Very interesting numbers released on Windows Mobile sales. Listen to general media and you would believe that the iPhone is outselling every other phone. Seems Windows Mobile is actually selling at over a 3 to 1 ratio vs. Apple's offering. Article...

Live (Microsoft) has released Skydrive, basically 5Gb of free storage online Take a look here -> http://skydrive.live.com/welcomemoreinfo.aspx?provision=1

O.k, one of those things we sometimes don't always hear about. Microsoft has released a concept OS for researchers and academics to experiment with how Operating Systems work and interact with Applications. Hopefully will lead to some new Architectures...

Ok ... public launch was on 27th February, so the code is available to eveyone now, take a look here -> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/try-it.aspx for trial software downloads, VHDs, virtual labs, etc. You can also look over the reviewer...