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• Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie Announces the Release of Silverlight 2

  Just over one year ago Silverlight debuted to the world - today, one in four consumers worldwide has access to a computer with Silverlight . Building on this fast-paced, historical success, Microsoft is releasing Silverlight 2, and the developments and Read More... Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 9:00 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Developers, Silveright 2, Silverlight

• Customer increases ROI with Microsoft Application Virtualization

  Today Microsoft and Aspen Technology announced that the first deployment of aspenONE software using Microsoft Application Virtualization was completed by long-time customer BASF. Headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, BASF is the leading chemical company Read More... Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 12:56 PM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Application Virtualization, Virtualization

• Microsoft Announces Updates to Windows Application Server and .NET Framework 4.0

  Today, Microsoft announced a set of new enhancements to the .NET Framework and Windows Server. The enhancements include increased functionality to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), as well as a new set of enhanced Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:00 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Connected Systems Division

• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Virtualization Services, Certifications and Training Offerings Now Available

  Today Microsoft announced the final release and availability of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new bare metal hypervisor-based server virtualization product. Available as a no-cost Web download at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-VServer later today, Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:15 AM by grantkd | 1 Comments Filed under: Get Virtual Now, Hyper-V Server, Virtualization, VMM 2008

• Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0

  Microsoft today provided the first look at Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, as well as an in-depth look at Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 (previously code named “Rosario”). The Visual Studio 2010 release will focus on several key Read More... Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 6:00 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Future Releases, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Is the Value Leader According to Latest Benchmarks

  New TPC-E performance benchmark results from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) rank Microsoft SQL Server 2008 No. 1 for price/performance on industry-leading hardware using Intel Corporation’s new Dunnington x64 processor, and on another Read More... Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 11:50 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Application Platform, SQL Server 2008

• Microsoft Takes its Newest High Performance Computing Platform to Wall Street

  Today, at the 2008 “High Performance on Wall Street” event in New York City, Microsoft announced it has released to manufacturing its newest server — Windows HPC Server 2008. Today’s event kicks off a series of global launch activities in the coming weeks Read More... Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 6:03 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: RTM, Windows HPC Server 2008, HPC

• Independent research firm recognizes Microsoft NAP as a leader in Network Access Control

  Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) solution was cited as a leader (the top category) in a recent independent report, “The Forrester Wave: Network Access Control, Q3 2008.” Microsoft was one of the many network access control (NAC) vendors invited Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:04 PM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Forefront, Windows Server 2008, NAP

• Microsoft and Cray team up to drive High Productivity Computing into the Mainstream

  Cray CX1 Supercomputer with Windows HPC Server 2008 and Intel Xeon Processors Starts At $25,000 and Provides "Ease-of-Everything" For New Users of HPC Today Cray Inc. and Microsoft are teaming for the first time to announce a compact supercomputer, the Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:49 AM by grantkd | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows HPC Server 2008, Cray, supercomputing

• Mike Neil, Microsoft virtualization, discusses the growing case for virtualization

  On the heels of Microsoft’s “ Get Virtual Now ” event on September 8 th , today Mike Neil, GM, Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft posted a Press Pass Q&A detailing some of the hot topics in virtualization right now, including: · Virtualization and Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:01 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Mike Neil, Virtualization

• Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Releases to Manufacturing

  Today Microsoft announced the official release-to-manufacturing of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008. EBS 2008 is part of the Windows Essential Server Solutions (WESS) family of products, which will be widely available and formally launched Read More... Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 2:22 PM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Essential Business Server 2008, Windows Essential Server Solutions

• Exclusive announcement from Microsoft, Cray and Intel tomorrow at 8 a.m. PDT

  Tomorrow, September 16, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft, Cray and Intel will share news, via a webcast, that promises to change the high performance computing industry. This webcast will feature the following executives and a short Q&A session: · Read More... Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 8:47 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: HPC

• Microsoft and Novell Deliver Joint Virtualization Solution Through Partners

  Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. are announcing the availability of a joint virtualization solution optimized for customers running mixed-source environments. The joint offering includes SUSE ® Linux Enterprise Server from Novell ® configured and tested Read More... Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:37 PM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: windows server 2008 hyper-v, Virtualization

• Microsoft Focuses on Bringing Modeling Mainstream, Improves IT Delivery of Business Strategies

  Today in this video , Bob Muglia re-affirmed Microsoft’s commitment to modeling and discussed how modeling relates to Dynamic IT, how Microsoft plans to make the technology mainstream and why modeling is important Video: Microsoft Modeling Modeling is Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:17 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Application Platform, modeling, Bob Muglia

• Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie Previews Silverlight News at IBC

  Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s successful collaboration with Move Networks to provide live, Silverlight-powered coverage of the Democratic National Committee Convention, neither company is showing signs of slowing down. Move Networks has already announced Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:33 AM by grantkd | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Silverlight