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I’ve read a few articles this morning concerning Microsoft’s move to release a web version of its upcoming Office 2010 product. This is a direct fire toward Google’s application suite and I think Microsoft is going to this help their dominance in...
How many of you have heard of this? This is the new “Premier Technical Credential” from Microsoft . The program will be required to obtain the Microsoft Certified Architect program. Kind of weird having the “Premier Technical Credential” in...
Mike Neil (GM, Virtualization Strategy) of Microsoft has a wonderful post on the Windows Server Division's blog . It's refreshing to see someone at his level blog about what his team's goals are and how passionate they are about helping customers. Virtualization...
Another day another release from Microsoft. Yesterday Microsoft released SQL 2005 SP2 and today it appears they have released the much anticipated Virtual PC 2007 . I found this out from my good friends from the north . The reason I say much anticipated...
If you're using SQL 2005 you may want to start investigating and testing out SQL 2005 Service Pack 2 . Microsoft just released this SP today and it is intended to help take advantage of enhancements within Windows Vista and Office 2007. Take a look here...
I just read over at the Windows Server Division blog that at last night's CES keynote Bill Gates announced the Windows Home Server. This should be interesting as it will no doubt be a welcome addition to most of us geeks. It is going to allow you to back...
This January Microsoft will be having one of their launch events here in Phoenix on January 17th. If you're interested in finding out more details on Windows Vista, Exchange 2007 or Office 2007 then you'll want to show up. Heck even if you want to get...
Just saw this video on an investigative report dealing with Microsoft hiring college grads. I would love to see more of this from Microsoft. It always seems like they are this ultra conservative company from the outside but there really are some fun things...
I know a lot of you are either looking at new certifications or looking to renew existing ones. This voucher is good for VUE testing centers only!!! Voucher # - MSUU4C7E701E Microsoft ONLY This voucher can be used as often as needed so feel free to share...
I just saw off another MVPs blog that Microsoft is making Virtual PC 2004 free! This is not a demo but instead the full product . Microsoft has said for some time that this component will come with Vista and it looks like this confirms that as well. Take...
Update: It looks like Microsoft is pulling this down. The reason being that in a corporate environment it would be way to easy for people to hide stuff in this password protected folder. There also is no recovery options. I personnaly like it and if you...
This is hands down the coolest thing I have seen on the web in a LONG time. GE has an online whiteboard that you can actually share with people. You have to check this out yourself! GE Whiteboard
...is NOT going to be the next name for the server product currently known as Longhorn. However there were some pretty funny ones they came up with. Check out some of the names they played around with here .
Ward Ralston of the Windows Server Division at Microsoft sends news that Monad (tasked based command shell & scripting language) has a new name...Windows PowerShell . I'm not sure I like the name so much but hey it's hard to beat cool codenames like...
For the first time since 1993 Intel (the company I work for) is releasing an new brand name entitled Intel ® vPro™ . You may be familiar with our last desktop brand name as it changed the industry...does the brand name Pentium ring a bell??? This is Intel...
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen on the web (and i've seen a lot). As most of you know Microsoft makes software for MACs such as Office and Virtual PC. There is a group of people at Microsoft that just play with MACs. Take a look here...
I didn't see this one coming, probably because I haven't even played with SQL 2005 yet. I will be building a SQL 2005 cluster very soon so i'm about to get my hands dirty with this one. Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for SQL 2005. How long has...
I'm the furthest thing you will ever see when it comes to developers...makes you wonder why i'm so freaking jealous of those know it all code monkeys. According to Dan Fernandez ( Lead Product Manager - Visual Studio Express ) effective today: " all Visual...