It’s been a busy November from Redmond so far, with the TechEd Europe conference at the beginning of the month, and the Professional Developers Conference 2009 held this past week. Even being a Microsoft employee whose job it is to keep track of our enterprise...

I find that, in most of my conversations with customers, there still exists the prevailing notion that Microsoft offers a closed system and doesn’t offer much value with respect to interoperability. While I won’t argue that this may once have been the...

So, as you have probably heard, the code for Windows 7 went gold last week. I am enjoying it in its full glory on my 2 year old laptop (membership has its privileges, as they say), and while the general public won’t see it until October 22nd, our business...

With all of the recent buzz around this week’s launch of Bing.com – Microsoft’s new consumer oriented search (or ‘decision’) engine, I feel that this is a good time to bring up the topic of the internet browsing, search, and the enterprise. i.e. What...

So, it’s been a busy few weeks out in Redmond (and Las Vegas), so I thought that I would consolidate and pass along a list of the most recent updates in Microsoft-land. If nothing else, read the info at the bottom and have a little fun. First and...

On Friday afternoon, the Windows Team Blog made two announcements: the availability of the Release Candidate for Windows 7 , and the introduction of a brand new feature coming in Win7: XP Mode ! The RC will be available for download for MSDN and TechNet...

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Environmental Sustainability in business has garnered a great deal of attention over the past year. Initially, this rise was for reasons of morality and social responsibility. More recently, the focus has shifted to cost reduction implications. Consumers...

So, the past several years have seen some interesting developments in the Windows client lifecycle. Many customers are taking a hard look at their current environment, the overall technology landscape, and the Windows roadmap. Now is a good time to try...

Last night, in the keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the immediate availability of the betas for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2! Needless to say, these are significant milestones – we are all...

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The past few weeks have been huge with respect to some major announcements from the Professional Developers Conference and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. We have announced a new wave of products based on the Windows platform, as well as...

Experience UC Event: Beyond the Hype Boston, November 14, 2008 How do you cut business costs and still improve efficiency, productivity and profitability? How are you extending the life of your telephony infrastructure without ripping or replacing your...

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So, after a summertime break in blog postings, I'm back. The big news from last week is that SQL Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing (RTM'd). You can go to the main SQL Server page to download an evaulation copy, and it should be available...

Today marks a significant day in Microsoft's virtualization roadmap - Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 has been released! Now, I know that there are a lot of VMWare ESX customers out there, but if you are presented with a virtualization solution that...

So, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 was released back in March - targeted at the web developer audience. Beta 2 is approaching a bit later this year, intended for a broader base of users (enthusiasts and the like). It's great to see that we're not standing...

As a technically-focused guy, I always said to myself that the less I know about licensing, the happier I'll be (and perhaps you all feel the same way :) )...but the reality is that, in my current role, I get a lot of questions about licensing. And, I...