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Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization ready to roll

Categories: Vista, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows client, Windows server, Corporate strategy, Exchange Server, Windows XP, Virtualization, Service Pack

5 Things You Need To Know About Hyper-V

I was fortunate to receive a Twitter message from the Microsoft virtualization team after writing my blog post A Weekend With Hyper-V. If you aren't familiar with the Windows Virtualization Team Blog, you can find it at http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization. Ronald Beekelaar, Microsoft MVP of Virtual Machine Technology, has an excellent blog post there about the Top 5 Things You Should Know About Hyper-V, which I'm summarizing here (you can read Ronald's post for the full details.) I appreciate Ronald and the other team members putting information like this up on their blog. It helps accelerate learning and sharing info about Hyper-V.

Mary Jo Foley: WSUS users get a surprise - Windows 7 client

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Corp., Windows Software Update Services, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft

Categories: Virtualization, Virtual machine software, Access virtualization, Consumer use of Virtualization, Operating system virtualization/partitioning, Cloud computing/SAAS/ISP Issues

Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes

mjasay writes "Microsoft's most recent annual report suggests that the company is increasingly coming to grips with open source, yet also seems determined to perpetuate myths about open source that poorly serve it and its shareholders. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has suggested before that 'free software means no free soda' for Microsoft employees; but this is perhaps the first time that Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a public document. In the annual report, Microsoft makes two primary false claims about open source: 1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights; and 2) Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products.

Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation. Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an anti-Linux move on Microsoft's part, and what some of the Open Sourcers are going to do about having Microsoft as a rather untrustworthy partner." In particular, he notes: "...Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction. Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code. Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of the project's

Open XML Format SDK

The 2007 Microsoft® Office system introduces a new file format that is based on XML called Open XML Formats. Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007 all use these formats as the default file format. Open XML formats are useful for developers because they are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. Microsoft provides a library for accessing these files as part of the WinFX technologies in the System.IO.Packaging namespace. The Open XML Format SDK is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents.

Mary Jo Foley: Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?

Tags: Software, Bill Gates, Programmer, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Microsoft Buys $100M of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Support

Microsoft will buy $100 million worth of Linux support certificates from Novell to redistribute to Microsoft Windows Server customers for Novell for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Novell has promised "tools, support, training and resources" for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server users seeking "optimal interoperability" with Microsoft Windows Server.

Microsoft moves to block paid Xbox Live iPhone apps

Microsoft plans to halt the sale of any unauthorized Xbox Live software at the App Store, one developer claims. 1337pwn says that its Xbox Live Friends Application -- which lets people see what others are playing on their Xboxes of Xbox 360s -- was recently challenged by Microsoft, which is responsible for all facets of Xbox gaming. 1337pwn comments, though, that Microsoft appears only to be concerned about people turning a profit on its technology, as it has given permission for XLFA to be distributed for free.

Some Developers Leaving Google For Microsoft

recoiledsnake writes "We have heard about lots of talented developers jumping ship from Microsoft to Google, but is the trend beginning to turn? Dare Obasanjo (a Microsoft employee) writes about a few high-profile people picking Microsoft over Google — either making the jump directly, or choosing Microsoft after receiving offers at both. Sergey Solyanik is back to Microsoft and he primarily gripes about the culture and lack of career development at Google. He writes, 'Everything is pretty much run by [engineering] — PMs and testers are conspicuously absent from the process. Google as an organization is not geared — culturally — to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications.' Danny Thorpe, who was the key architect of Google Gears, is back at Microsoft for his second stint working on developer technologies rel

Yahoo! rejected Microsoft bid for search business, due to exclusivity clause

Microsoft dropped bid for all of Yahoo! on 8 June and launched a bid of USD 1 billion for Yahoo!'s search business and a share of future search advertising revenue. This proposal also included an USD billion investment in Yahoo! but required Yahoo! to commit to a 10-year exclusive arrangement, according to a letter sent to Yahoo! stockholders by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock. The letter explains the reasons for Yahoo! to sign a four year non-exclusive deal with Google for online advertising services and to end the talks with Microsoft, as their search-only hybrid proposal may have been helpful to Microsoft. The board and its advisers also carefully studied the financial impact of Microsoft's proposal and concluded that it would have provided no meaningful improvement to the operating cash flow.

Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud

Categories: Windows Live, Database, SQL Server, Corporate strategy, Development tools, .Net Framework, Web 2.0, Code names, Channel, Systems integrators, Virtualization, Network service providers, Financial Analyst Meeting

RC1 for Hyper-V Now Available for Download

IT pros wanting to try out the latest Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology can now get the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version via Windows Update.

Optus announces iPhone plan pricing

Dell to sell enterprise-wide Microsoft agreements in Australia US government sued over tracking mobile phones Victory predicted for Microsoft's Hyper-V Mozilla claims Guinness download record Flying cars will happen says British inventor Google open sources RatProxy security tool Canadian fiddler looks for quick payday via eBay Microsoft, Yahoo mull media partner options UN says money grows on trees Microsoft outlines Office subscription plan Boffins promise flexible laptops Microsoft seeks allies for new Yahoo move - reports More regulation for online retail arrives Intel gaining ground in 2008

Hyper-V: It's no-brainer virtualization for Windows

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Microsoft, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Infrastructure, Enterprise Computing, Virtualization, Server, VMWare

Microsoft unveils Internet Explorer 8, its response to Firefox

Microsoft unveils Internet Explorer 8, its response to Firefox San Francisco - Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a trial version of a new Internet Explorer designed to fight the growing challenge from Firefox.

Microsoft Tabs Jerry Seinfeld for $300M Ad Campaign

Microsoft, the definitive desktop computer software maker, is firing back at rival Apple with new ads featuring comedy king Jerry Seinfeld, who built a name for himself as the star of a show about nothing. Microsoft has branched into enterprise applications, Web services and several other areas to compete with Google, Apple and other rivals.

Jason Perlow: Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Microsoft, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Infrastructure, Enterprise Computing, Virtualization, Server, VMWare

Senior Microsoft developer dumps Redmond to embrace open source

Mike Gunderloy spent over a decade consulting for Microsoft, helping to build the Access and Excel versions of Microsoft Office 97 and 2000, as well as SQL Server, C#, and ASP.Net. A series of Microsoft moves, most particularly its "patent land-grab," has pushed Gunderloy away from Microsoft to the point that he's now "100 percent Microsoft-free" and has embraced a variety of open-source projects and programming languages.

Microsoft Adds $100M to SUSE Linux Support Tab

Two years ago, Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy $240 million worth of support vouchers for Novell Inc.'s SUSE Linux operating system as part of a controversial partnership deal between the two vendors. Now Microsoft is reaching into its pocket again, to the tune of another $100 million.

Google, Virtualization and Cloud Computing

s Consumers’ Foundation has complained to the island’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) about Microsoft pulling XP off the market, demanding that Microsoft be fined for pushing

Google, Virtualization and Cloud Computing

s Consumers’ Foundation has complained to the island’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) about Microsoft pulling XP off the market, demanding that Microsoft be fined for pushing

YAHOO SPURNS JOINT MICROSOFT-ICAHN BID TO REVAMP FIRM, ACQUIRE SEARCH BUSINESS

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. said late on Saturday that it rejected a restructuring proposal from Microsoft Corp. and the investor Carl Icahn, and the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet-services giant called on Microsoft to bid for the whole company. Yahoo said the Microsoft-Icahn plan, which it said would turn Yahoo's search business over to the Redmond, Wash., software giant and the rest over to the New York investor, was presented as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. "This odd and opportunistic alliance of Microsoft and Carl Icahn has anything but the interests of Yahoo's stockholders in mind," Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement. Yahoo said that while it rejected the restructuring, it offered two alternatives: "It repeated its offer to sell the entire company to Microsoft for at least" $33 a share, and it "offered to nego

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