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August 2005 - Posts

What is the Significance of the RC milestone?

A really good question came my way this week: What is the Significance of the RC Milestone? Many of our product milestones (Beta, RC, etc.) are publicized as a march forward toward the final release of a product - But what is the significance of each Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:35 PM by WindowsServer | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2003 R2 RC0 Released

Today our Windows Server product development team reached a very important milestone - the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 RC0. If you haven't heard about R2 before, R2 is an update release of Windows Server 2003 with SP1, and provides improved branch Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:16 PM by WindowsServer | 3 Comments

Virtualization on stage at Intel Dev Forum

Intel’s Pat Gelsinger just demo’d a future version of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 running Intel’s Virtualization Technology (VT). IDF attendees saw an early preview of a future release (post-Virtual Server 2005 R2) of Virtual Server. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:20 AM by WindowsServer | 4 Comments
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Intel's projections on dual core

During his keynote, Otellini projected that the ramp up for dual core chips will overtake single core shipments in Q3 2006 - in one year. Adding to it, Otellini said that Intel will ship 60 million dual core procs by the end of 2006. If you're Oracle Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:47 AM by WindowsServer | 3 Comments

TPM in Windows Server Codename "Longhorn"

I was reading Mary Jo Foley's quick little update on the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) capabilities in Vista. - want to know more about it? If so - read on. TPM technology is being realized as a part of the NGSCB in the next versions of both the client Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:32 AM by WindowsServer | 0 Comments
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Free Course on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack One

MS Learning works closely with our team to provide training on our various technologies. One of the recent free , online courses (thats right - free!) they have completed is the 2855 Clinic: Managing Security Enhancements in Windows Server 2003 Service Read More...
Posted Monday, August 15, 2005 9:21 AM by WindowsServer | 1 Comments

VM's virtual news from Linuxland

The virtual storage company delivered the four P’s of marketing with yesterday's announcement. The un-written story is that VMware’s initiative is as much as reaction to XenSource as to Microsoft Virtual Server. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 12:09 PM by WindowsServer | 0 Comments
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"Monad" and Windows Server Longhorn

I've recently seen some articles that have been speculating that we will be including "Monad" in the upcoming release to Windows Server Longhorn, and that we have removed it from the Windows Vista beta 1. I just wanted to take a minute and comment on Read More...
Posted Monday, August 08, 2005 12:58 PM by WindowsServer | 7 Comments

"World's first" academic paper on 64-bit computing

I was interested to read Victor's academic paper on 64-bit computing, which is focused on the transition from x86-32bit to x86-64bit, and the impact of dual-core. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 05, 2005 3:41 PM by WindowsServer | 2 Comments
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