When a new operating system like Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 is launched to much fanfare and attention, the casualties of such activities are rarely noticed. Casualties like Windows ME, Windows 2000 and now Windows Server 2003 – they just slip into the background, forgotten, never to be seen again – until now. This…
Year: 2008
Problems renewing on the Partner Membership Centre?
The Partner team are having some performance issues with the Partner Membership Center, particularly around the Customer Reference Submission process. Please see below for details. For more information on how to renew and what the renewal means for you as a Partner, see my recent Partner TV interview with Emma. Issue: Partners and customers are…
More information on NUMA
I first heard about NUMA (nonuniform memory access) when watching the Mark Russinovich video I posted about. I admit I’d not heard about it before but I was interested and so did a little more research into it. A quick search later using Live Search I’d come across the Wikipedia entry which gave quite a…
Mark Russinovich talks Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V and Windows Vista
Mark Russinovich is the founder of SysInternals the software company that was acquired by Microsoft recently. He’s been made a Technical Fellow (the highest technical role at Microsoft) and is now working on the Kernel of Windows, so he knows his way around Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7 pretty well. I just…
To Vista or not to Vista? What is your answer?
Susanne has gone and written a blog post asking what customers are doing regarding their Vista deployments so I thought I would do a quick poll to ask the question about your own Vista plans in your business (or in your customer’s businesses if you are a partner). Feel free to leave comments too -…
Microsoft Forefront Partner Technical Airlift
Does your organization design, deploy, customize, or support security solutions for business customers? Are you looking for security technologies that can provide comprehensive protection, simplified administration, and efficient integration with your customers’ existing infrastructure? If you answered ‘yes’, then the Microsoft Forefront Partner Technical Airlift is for you! Don’t miss the chance to: · Learn…
Reading gets Birds Eye View on Virtual Earth and use your Wii remote to control Virtual Earth!
An historic moment happened over Christmas – Reading got Birds Eye View imagery on Virtual Earth! Here’s the Microsoft UK HQ in Reading – looks like a Friday as the car park is quite empty :-) Building 5 (bottom left) is looking all shiny and new – no one has moved in there yet but…
Virtual Earth UK Partner Day
The Microsoft Virtual Earth EMEA team are holding an event on 6th February 2008 at the Great House at Sonning to provide you with all the information you require to integrate VE into your business offering. Never before has it been so easy for your clients to track assets, find customers, manage mobile sales force…
Happy New Year – and a late Christmas Present for you – Windows Vista Ultimate
Welcome back to the blog – I hope you had a great festive season with well earned time spent with your loved ones. This is my first post of 2008 and I wanted to start the new year by asking you what you want to read more of on my blog. Am I talking about…