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Successor to SQL 2008 is codenamed "Kilimanjaro"
Brad Anderson, general manager of the Management and Services division at Microsoft, announced the successor to SQL 2008; codenamed SQL Server "Kilimanjaro" and SQL Self Service Analysis codenamed "Gemini" today at the Teched EMEA 2008 IT Pro keynote.
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Christian Petculescu, principal architect for the SQL team, was invited to stage. He demo’d SQL "gemini", loading million [...] -
7 mind-blowing projects from Microsoft Research
Everyone knows Microsoft never invents anything. Everything is bought in, copied from Apple or built by the PC manufacturer. Right?
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Not so, according to Rick Rashid, who’s been running Microsoft Research for 17 years. He coined the term NUMA – non-uniform memory access for handling cache in multi-processor systems – and popularized the idea of a [...] -
Announcing Windows Server 2008 R2
Oliver Rist: Windows Server 2008 R2 showed its pretty face at the Professional Developers Conference today, here in Los Angeles. Hi there, my name’s Oliver Rist and I’m a new technical product manager on the Windows Server team. I’m down here in La-La Land heaving great sighs of satisfaction as we unveil the first sneak [...]
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Windows 7 Home Page – Now Live
If you’re looking for information about Windows 7, you’ve come to the right place. And as we make new information available, we’ll make sure you can find it all from here. If you want day-by-day news about Windows 7, sign up for the RSS feeds of the Windows team blogs.
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Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability
Andrew Bartlett of Samba fame has written a document describing their recent collaboration with Microsoft’s Active Directory team. In brief, it would seem that the sky is falling, as Microsoft’s engineers seem to be really committed to making Samba fully interoperable with AD. They have organized interoperability fests and have knowledgeable engineers answering technical questions [...]
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Vista Team Blog: Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta
We are committed to continually improving Windows, and we’ve been getting some questions about the timing of the next service pack for Windows Vista. Following the success of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 last spring, we have been working hard on Windows Vista Service Pack 2. As a part of the development and testing [...]
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Media Center Gadgets for SideShow released!
There are four gadgets – TV, Music, Pictures + Videos, and Now Playing – that let you browse and control your Media Center PC from any SideShow remote control or device, or even a Windows Mobile phone (if it has the platform installed). The gadgets let you browse the TV guide and details, recorded shows, [...]
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Microsoft gets patent for real-time f-bomb bleeping
Back in 2004 Microsoft applied for a patent for real-time censoring of audio streams, and now the USPTO has granted that patent.
As PC gamers have known for a long time, and Xbox gamers have known for a while, playing against other humans online is a much more enjoyable experience than beating a computer. Thanks to [...]