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  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 Beta now available for download

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    This morning at the Microsoft Management Summit we demonstrated a number of new technologies we’ve had under wraps for a while. See the press release for more information on Bob Muglia’s keynote. One of the products I really dig is System...

  • Microsoft Management Summit 2008 - Day 1

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    The Microsoft Management Summit 2008 is off to a stellar start.  I think this is the biggest MMS I’ve ever seen.  The location (Las Vegas) has a lot to do with it.  There are people from all over the world here.  I did notice...

  • Get Ready to Rumble

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Hot Wheels is having it’s 40th anniversary and to commemorate, some of the automobile companies has created some fun scale model vehicles.  Here’s a pic of the Honda Racer.  Wired did a great article on the event at http://blog.wired...

  • Matt Makes the Homepage of Edge

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Matt Hester is one of the subject matter experts on my team in the Search and Sharepoint product mix.  Recently Matt recorded a screencast on installing Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 on Windows Server 2008.  Specifically, he...

  • I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    I noticed this morning that Windows XP SP3 is now on the TechNet subscriber download area. See my download from Akamai above.  To the best of my knowledge, the bits are being provided to TechNet and MSDN subscribers ahead of just about everyone else...

  • HTC is coming to the USA – see the new 30 second spot

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Interesting commercial.  What company does it remind you of?

  • Interview with Harold Wong - Exchange Guru

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    While interviewing customers at the Windows Server 2008 launch events, I managed to snag Harold Wong on his way to lunch and ask him about fifty questions.  The video turned out really well which is surprising because Harold didn't act like he really...

  • Who's going to be first to run your laptop with this?

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    I can already see it now. Someone is going to pull the 2.5" Western Digital VelociRaptor™ 300GB 10,000rpm drive from the IcePack™ frame and stuff it in a laptop. I wonder if it's even possible. Or if that doesn't work, I wonder if this baby will go...

  • More Windows Server 2008 launch event interviews

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    As I'm sure you are aware, Matt Hester and I shook a lot of hands at the Windows Server 2008 launch events we attended in Houston, Dallas, Phoenix and Las Vegas.  Matt pulled the videos he recorded and here's the new ones from his camera. In Dallas...

  • Who's your Daddy MacBook Pro? The ThinkPad T61p

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    I've been hearing for months and months how great the Apple MacBook Pro is at suspending and resuming from sleep, and how Windows Vista sucks. Don't believe it. My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p thumped the MacBook Pro handily in my testing yesterday afternoon...

  • A Hailstorm the size of Texas

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    The picture says it all, but you would not believe the front the blew through Texas this evening.  It rained hail across the state like most people, even in Texas, have never seen before. When was the last time you saw a front stretch from the Red...

  • I wonder if they'll hook an Xbox 360 to this?

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision™ Is Dallas Cowboys’ Choice for New Stadium World’s Largest 1080p High-Definition LED Video Displays Will Span 60 Yards WARRENDALE, Pa.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--The Dallas Cowboys, whose ingenuity and reputation...

  • Does Tax Day define success? You bet it does!

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    April 15th is an interesting day.  For those of you that are small business owners, you know what I mean.  As you start off building a business, the yearly tax deadline spells out all to well how your business did.  Your CPA is going to...

  • Windows Vista Screencast – Hyper-V Remote Management

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the Remote Server Administration Toolkit (RSAT) that released and your ability to run those tools on Windows Vista SP1.  Around the same timeframe, we shipped Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RC0.  A...

  • Who's the fastest OS in the land? WinXP vs Vista vs OS X

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Last weeks "interesting" Gartner report on Windows reminded me I had some unfinished business. I've actually been waiting for Windows XP SP3 to release before I ran some tests, but I decided to go ahead and have some fun today while watching the Masters...

  • Windows Server 2008 isn't going to be my prime OS

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    That was fast.  I like it when I achieve a result fast.  In this case, I was testing Windows Server 2008 to see if it could really be my full time primary operating environment.   All the kewl geeks are doing it.  There's just...

  • Microsoft RDP Client for OS X - Beta 3 now available

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    If you are running OS X on a Mac and want to connect to a Windows server or client machine via a remote desktop connection, you should download and try the latest beta.  I’m still on the previous release, but this caught my eye so I thought...

  • Interviews from the Dallas launch event

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Matt Hester and I spent some time earlier this week at the Dallas Windows Server 2008 launch event.  As usual we spent the morning talking to a variety of customers.  Here are a couple of the interviews I recorded.  I’ll add the one’s...

  • Don't let this happen to us

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    I think Hugh sums it up nicely on his blog post at http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004480.html .  Are all of the Web 2.0 things just huge time sucks?  It's funny, the day I create a twitter account is the day Hugh deletes his...

  • I'm a Twit

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Any of you on Twitter ? It's pretty interesting. It's like instant messaging for voyeurs. Be a lurker (follow). Right now I'm such a newbie, that there isn't a lot of action for me. I'm not quite sure who to follow so I just added a few of the folks I...

  • Tornados in Texas...again

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    If you are in Breckenridge, Texas right now, you aren't having fun.  I hope nobody gets hurt.

  • Blog till you drop?

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    Wow.  I just read the NY Times article, “ In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop ” by Matt Richtel.  That’s a pretty scary article, and I assure you, blogging won’t be my undoing.  Family genes...

  • Earth Day is April 22

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    In honor of the upcoming Earth Day on April 22, here's a video that illustrates the beauty of our home, and why you should care. Pay no attention to the Great White having a snack.

  • Symmetrical 15meg speeds rock

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    At lunch time, I called Verizon to bump my FIOS data plan speeds up a notch. I left my download speed alone (15meg) but had them change the upload speed from 2meg to 15meg. Yep, I have a 15meg connection each direction now. I’m on the month-to-month plan...

  • Things that make you go hmmmm…

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Keith Combs}
    That was really weird. The last post I did (now deleted), corrupted my Internet Explorer cache. In fact, the blog post did it to two machines I have. Scary. It was a relatively simple post with a small image, some text, a few hyperlinks, and a Silverlight...
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