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Monday, September 22, 2008 6:00 AM

Windows HPC Server 2008 RTM's

We’re DONE with HPC Server 2008! We shipped our first beta last November, then a series of CTPs, then a second Beta in May, then a couple release candidates, and now we are FINISHED. 600MB of technical specifications, 500K lines of code, 250 customer
Posted by WindowsServer | 4 Comments
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:52 PM

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
Posted by WindowsServer | 4 Comments
Monday, September 15, 2008 8:56 PM

Microsoft and Cray Team up to Bring High Performance Computing Mainstream

For the first time in the two companies history, Microsoft and Cray have teamed up to offer a powerful mix of what each company does best - - the Cray CX1! What is the CX1, you ask? It’s a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008 , that’s
Posted by WindowsServer | 8 Comments
Monday, September 15, 2008 3:22 PM

Essential Business Server: Released to Manufacturing!

Excerpt from the post on the EBS blog by general manager Eric Kidd: I’d like to do two things right off the bat in this, my first, blog post here… 1) Announce that Windows Essential Business Server 2008 has reached RTM! (English now, more languages to
Posted by WindowsServer | 2 Comments
Monday, September 15, 2008 1:45 AM

Two New Extension Updates for IIS 7.0 Available

A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about IIS Extensions – new functionality for IIS that comes directly from the development team on a continuous basis. Well this week we have two more pre-release Extensions available, and each is a “Go Live” release candidate,
Posted by WindowsServer | 4 Comments
Monday, September 08, 2008 1:47 PM

Get Virtual Now!

Today, the virtualization team kicked off the Get Virtual Now event in Bellevue. It's designed to educate more than 250,000 IT professionals on our virtualization products, deployment tools and partner solutions, helping customers to virtualize from the
Posted by WindowsServer | 1 Comments
Monday, September 08, 2008 1:10 PM

UPDATE FOR WINDOWS SERVER 2008 SERVER MANAGER TO SUPPORT WINDOWS SERVER UPDATE SERVICES 3.0 SERVICE PACK 1 HAS BEEN RELEASED!

An update for Windows Server 2008 Server Manager (KB940518) has been released to integrate Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (WSUS 3.0 SP1). This update to Server Manager enables full integration of WSUS 3.0 SP1 into Server Manager, allowing
Posted by WindowsServer | 1 Comments
Monday, September 08, 2008 1:01 PM

64-bit, Windows Server, Hyper-V, and the future

With the launch today of Hyper-V - available only in x64 versions - I thought that now would be a good time to revisit the topic of "64-bitness." I'm a technical product manager on the Windows Server team focused on Windows Server 2008, R2, clustering,
Posted by WindowsServer | 6 Comments
 
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