Windows Now

Well, this weekend was a busy one. I just finished a marathon run (that took a few hours longer than expected), moving Interscape's hosting environment off of a Windows Server 2003/Virtual Server-based setup, and onto our own private rack with new AMD servers and the Windows Server 2008 November CTP...

I don't think Microsoft is "in it to win it" with Virtualization anymore. Mike Neil, GM of "Virtualization Strategy" announced today that Microsoft isn't putting out a beta of Windows Server Virtualization until Longhorn Server RTM s (which is in November, the last I heard). On top of that, they're going...

Microsoft announced today that it's making a bunch of it's products available for testing using Virtual Machines , instead of trying to figure out how to configure trial apps themselves. Windows Server 2003 R2, Exchange 2007, SQL 2005, and ISA 2006 are all available for download . I don't know why they...

You know, there has been a lot of controversy lately (from developers I respect who should know better) about the news that Visual Studio .NET 2002/2005 will "mostly work but be unsupported" on Windows Vista. They claim that the answer "Just move your environment to Virtual PC and develop...