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WorldWide Telescope is Incredible!

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:07 PM by davidzi
Worldwide Telescope is the coolest application I've seen in a very, very long time. I urge everyone to go check this out, I don't think you'll ever look to the sky in the same way again. While it didn't quite make me cry like Scoble , I guarantee it will Read More...
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Students: Get Visual Studio 2008, Expression Studio, and more for Free!

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:24 PM by davidzi
Today Microsoft announced a new program for students called DreamSpark that's all about getting our developer tools into the hands of students. Best of all, its free! Here is a Channel8 interview with Bill Gates on the program and here is a link to information Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 RTM!

Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 9:53 AM by davidzi
Windows Server 2008 officially was officially signed off for RTM today! The press release is here . Haven't posted in quite some time due to vacation, holidays, and extremely busy customer schedule but will soon get back to regular posts. Read More...
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Big Windows Server 2008 and Virtualization Announcements

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 9:02 AM by davidzi
At TechEd in Barcelona today, we made several major announcements . It's important to look at the details but to really see the scope and impact you need to step back a bit and look at the big picture these announcements describe. In my view there are Read More...
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Hypervisor Functional Specification

Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 5:00 PM by davidzi
If you really want to go deep on Windows Server Virtualization, check out our announcement of the publication of the Hypercall API under the Open Specification Promise . Here is the download: Hypervisor Functional Specification Read More...
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Very Interesting Virtualization Video

Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 5:14 PM by davidzi
Eric Traut, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and one of the key architects behind our kernel and virtualization teams gave a great presentation at the University of Illinois on our virtualization architecture. Eric gave a very detailed description Read More...
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Installing the Windows Server Virtualization Preview (Viridian)

Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:27 AM by davidzi
As many have heard by now, a preview version of Windows Server Virtualization has shipped on the CD with Windows Server 2008 RC0! I was going to write up a post detailing the prerequisites, installation process, etc. but some others have already done Read More...
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Virtual Server Cookbooks

Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:22 AM by davidzi
The links below are to a series of cookbooks for Virtual Server by Microsoft and Partners that are detailed how-to guides for a series of topics such as management, high availability, disaster recovery, etc. Name Description Microsoft® Virtual Server Read More...
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Great List of SQL 2008 Resources

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:11 PM by davidzi
If you want to learn more about SQL 2008, here is a great list of resources. Read More...
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Major Virtualization Announcements!

Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:57 PM by davidzi
Wow, some big news over on the Windows Virtualization Team Blog ! SCVMM is released to manufacturing. The pricing model is very reasonable and is priced per physical host with management of an unlimited number of VMs. There is a midmarket solution available Read More...
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IIS Gaining Rapidly on Apache

Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:48 AM by davidzi
I hadn't taken note of the market share numbers in a while but check out the results from the most recent Netcraft survey . They state the following: "Microsoft continues to increase its web server market share, adding 2.6 million sites this month as Read More...
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TechReady Day 3 and 4: Windows Server 2008

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 10:21 PM by davidzi
My schedule on day 3 and 4 was very heavy on sessions dealing with virtualization and various Windows Server 2008 topics. I mentioned it in my previous post but there is a tremendous amount of integration and collaboration between the virtualization teams Read More...
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TechReady Day 2: BillG and Virtualization

Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:09 AM by davidzi
Day 2 at TechReady brought a keynote by Bill Gates and another Q&A session afterwards. The keynote was pretty interesting, it was a fairly typical BillG presentation with some good demos. He highlighted six major areas Microsoft is focusing on over Read More...
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TechReady Day 1: Asking Microsoft's COO a Question!

Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:59 AM by davidzi
Hello from TechReady 5 in Seattle. Like last year, I'm going to blog each day this week with news from TechReady, Microsoft's internal technical conference for employees. TechReady is a great event held twice a year where we get to hear from the product Read More...
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VMRCPlus - A better way to manage Virtual Machines!

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:37 PM by davidzi
As you can imagine, a company full of great developers such as Microsoft has a bunch of folks that crank out a lot of tools and utilities in their "spare" time. One of those that has been extremely popular internally is VMRCPlus, an alternate interface Read More...
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