Microsoft Windows Server Blog

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VM’s virtual news from Linuxland 

The virtual storage company delivered the four P’s of marketing with yesterday’s announcement: Product — VMware Community Source, Virtual Disk Interface, Management Interface, Hypercall Interface; Place –…

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“Monad” and Windows Server Longhorn 

I’ve recently seen some articles that have been speculating that we will be including “Monad” in the upcoming release to Windows Server Longhorn, and that we have…

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Windows Server Longhorn Beta 1 Released 

Hey everybody, As you probably heard by now, today we released the Beta 1 of Windows Vista, which is the next version of the Windows client operating…

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New Windows Server x64/SQL Server 2005 benchmark 

There’s a new (June 27) benchmark for SAP-SD, three-tier Internet configuration. See more here: http://www50.sap.com/benchmarkdata/sd3tier.asp. The benchmark used SQL Server 2005 (64bit) on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, running…

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x64 on the road 

Maybe not as monumental as Charles Kurault or Phish, but Windows x64 has logged many a mile in the past months. If you haven’t see the show…

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W’sup with Office Patches in WSUS 

Following up on Joseph’s post last week, some first-time customers of Windows Server Update Services have asked something to the effect of “why can’t I see patches for Office…

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WSUS Goes Live at TechEd 2005 

Hello – I’m Joseph Dadzie, group program manager for Software Distribution technologies in the Windows Server team.  My team is currently responsible for the infrastructure behind Windows…

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The 64bit Scan 

From a journalism perspective, I’ve been a fan of Cynthia Webb’s for some time. Her Filter column for The Washington Post was ahead of its time and…