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Move over Chandler – there’s a new bing in town…

Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:14 PM by mattmcspirit
Today is a very big day for Microsoft.  Unfortunately, it’s not virtualisation related, but Search & Online related.  The online advertising and search space is, in many ways, similar to virtualisation.  It’s dominated by a very big Read More...
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MMS2009: App-V for Servers

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 5:43 PM by mattmcspirit
Application Virtualisation (App-V) has been around a fair while now.  It started as SoftGrid, and was owned by Softricity, which was then acquired by Microsoft, and became App-V, with the current release being 4.5.  Version 4.6, which brings Read More...
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Got a spare few minutes? I’ve got a game for you…

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:14 AM by mattmcspirit
Just a bit of fun really, but if you enjoy retro style games (complete with retro music) that you can spin up in the browser, then this could be the game for you.  I’ve just had a quick go at it, and it’s actually quite funny! Head on over to ServerQuest Read More...
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I go away for 1 week – what’s changed?

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:34 AM by mattmcspirit
I hinted in one of my final posts before holiday , that there would be some big announcements taking place in and around the virtualisation space.  Well, firstly, Windows 7 Release Candidate launched, and there is a tonne of information about that, Read More...
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BIG Hyper-V News Part III: Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta Now Available!!

Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:49 PM by mattmcspirit
Remember way back on 1st October, when I blogged about the release of Microsoft’s free hypervisor based virtualisation solution , Hyper-V Server 2008? In that post, I talked about the cost (free), along with it’s capabilities, what it would be good for, Read More...
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BIG Hyper-V News Part I: Marathon everRun Support

Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 2:29 PM by mattmcspirit
From here : Microsoft and Marathon Technologies Expand Relationship to Provide Fault Tolerant Computing to More Businesses – this is great news! I have to say, going forward into the ‘next generation’ of virtualisation platforms, with Citrix XenServer, Read More...
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PowerShell and Hyper-V

Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:13 PM by mattmcspirit
I’m seeing more and more blog posts out there on the web, that talk about the use of PowerShell to perform certain tasks and actions.  For those of you not familiar, from Wikipedia : Windows PowerShell is an extensible command-line shell and associated Read More...
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Hyper-V and USB: Part II

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 9:43 AM by mattmcspirit
I blogged about USB support in a virtual environment a good while back now , and it seems like it was quite a popular post – a number of comments reference the ability of some technologies out there, such as VMware Workstation and the new VMware Server Read More...
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Windows Essential Business Server 2008 – Pimp my Infrastructure…

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 12:13 PM by mattmcspirit
Patrick, from the Microsoft Virtualisation User Group , forwarded this through to me, and I thought it’s worth sharing – bit off topic as there’s no mention of virtualisation, but it’s pretty funny in a viral-HP-Microsoft-AMD kind of way. ";" galleryimg="no" Read More...
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IE8 Beta 2

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:54 AM by mattmcspirit
Bit off topic, but useful to know nonetheless.  IE8 Beta 2 has shipped, and I have to be honest, it’s a big improvement on IE8 Beta 1.  That’s not to say that Beta 1 was naff, it’s just, well, you could tell it was Beta.  This release is Read More...
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Wave 2008 Launch - Virtual Launch Site Live!

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:14 PM by mattmcspirit
I've just noticed that George has blogged about this, so I thought I'd give it a mention too. Watch the launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 from your living room In addition to the launch event on 19 th March in Birmingham, Read More...
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Belgium: Here I come!

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:18 PM by mattmcspirit
Yep, that's right, I'm off to Belgium in the morning, on the Eurostar, to present the closing keynote session at the Belgium 'Heroes Happen Here' Launch event!  It's a real privilege being invited by Arlindo , who's been helping to coordinate the Read More...
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Things I like in IE8, so far...

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:54 PM by mattmcspirit
Just highlighting a word, and then using the floating conditional Activities toolbar (kind of like the one in Office 2007) presents me with a number of options based on my selection.  Choosing 'Map with Live Maps' brings up a snapshot of the location Read More...
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Welcome (back) to the Social...

Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:04 PM by mattmcspirit
Both the new Zune media software, and device firmware have been released today and I have to be honest, I'm really impressed.  I'm impressed for a few reasons actually.  Firstly, that we've improved the interface of the Zune media software sitting Read More...
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What would your 'Dream Office' look like?

Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:36 AM by mattmcspirit
Anything like the one above?  Mine sure would, although the Xbox would be a little closer to the PC, and the wireless controller would obviously be next to me as I worked.  Also, where's the home cinema system?  :-) Anyway, the idea is Read More...
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