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The New Moore’s Law
  Times They are a-Changing A new report from IDC lays out what should be obvious to anyone who has followed two of the biggest recent trends in the server market—multicore and virtualization—by suggesting that when you have two popular new technologies Read More...
Software+Services – Pie in the Sky?
Google’s all about Web stuff, Netbooks (small computers exclusively for accessing the web) is all the rage, even Microsoft is going cloud with Azure and Live. Everything is about the cloud! If you follow certain blogs and media, you could easily think Read More...
Windows Server 2008 is called SP1 - a shameless plug
As I'm sure you're perfectly well aware, Windows Server 2008 just shipped. Let's try that again: Windows Server 2008 just shipped! The server companion of the much criticized Window Vista. It's been a 4 year journey for a lot of people in our organization. Read More...
Windows Home Server: I Owe You One
  You may remember a while back when I described my initial encounter with our newest Server product: Windows Home Server. Back then I was amongst the many hundred Microsoft people beta testing the product to make sure that our customers would get Read More...
Green Computing, Power Management and Windows Server
  Did you know that analysts are seeing that the combined cost of power and cooling in the Data Center is 10% of IT budgets today and expected to rise to about 50% in the next couple of years? Recently, there's been a flurry of activities around Read More...
Of Instrumentation and Management Packs
Why should you care? What is a Management Pack? What about Health Models? What's instrumentation good for? And, finally we should you care about all of it? ...... Let's take the last of my rhetorical question first: Why should you care? As an IT pro implementing Read More...
64-bit and Virtualization - Mainstream?
Virtualization will drive the adoption of 64-bit computing. Back when we first started with the program we refer to as the Common Engineering Criteria (CEC), we pushed support for Virtualization and 64-bit processors across our products. Now it looks Read More...
Windows Home Server Or What Is The Price of Peace of Mind?
Did you already hear about Windows Home Server? Well, maybe not. Let me give you a brief explanation as to what Windows Home Server is and why you want so it! Windows Home Server (WHS) is a new member of the expanding Windows Server family. It's a product Read More...
Common Engineering Criteria: Consistens og forudsigelighed
I løbet at de seneste snart 4 år har Microsoft's server produkter gennemgået en forandring. Ofte har vi talt om "Better Together" og integreret innovation, i 2003 besluttede en gruppe af højt placerede Microsoft ledere, at nu skulle der gøres noget mere Read More...
Common Engineering Criteria - Consistency and Predictability
Over the past nearly 4 year Microsoft's Servers have been going through a transformation. Many are the times that we have talked about better together, integrated innovation, etc. In 2003, some of our executives decided that now was the time to do something Read More...
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