Greetings! My name is Clyde Rodriguez (pretty unusual name for a guy of Mexican American decent, but yep, that’s my name). I am a Group Program Manager in the Windows division here at Microsoft and have been with the Windows team almost 10 years (!!), the last four of which I’ve had the privilege of Read more
SP1 is really an interesting service pack….. not only does it do the job of a normal service pack (aggregating updates) it also incorporates added functionality like the Security Configuration Wizard and Post-Setup Security Updates. But this is something you dont hear to much when talking service packs: increased performance….but tis true. There are a Read more
In the next month we will be adding new categories to the blog and bringing in some new Product and Program Managers to talk about R2, Longhorn Server, and Small Business Server. We will have an RSS feed for each of the categories and a bio section so everyone can learn a little bit about some of Read more
Have you ever attempted to access a folder that you didnt have permission to? Are you an administrator who is concerned about security principals without the proper permissions seeing the names of files and folders they dont have permissions to? SP1 and x64 address these concerns by making inacessible files and folders invisible to users Read more
Cool stuff here – Windows Server Update Services has reached the RC milestone. You can download a version of Update Services here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/updateservices/evaluation/trial/default.mspx What does this have to do with x64 you say? In addition to providing updates for SQL, MSDE, Office, Windows, (and eventually EVERY MS technology…really it will) – it also provides update for Read more
This came across my desk this morning….I see a lot webcasts and chats invites come by and not of lot of them raise my eyebrows – but these two definetly did. If you are interested in interacting with some of the Key Executives from Microsoft, AMD, and Intel – this looks like it is for Read more
Hello, Demorie here…I had another dream the other night about a celebrity. Jack Nicholson and I were hanging out at a beach resort. I was interviewing him on why I didn’t see him at the Oscars. Was he there? Where was he sitting? He told me he was delegated to the balcony with the special Read more
Thanks to WD for some feedback on our blog format…..hope this helps with the navigation. I apologize that some of the posts are not rendering in some readers, evidently the old copy and paste from MS Word isnt going to cut it anymore. — Ward Ralston Read more
Managing the rollout of our x64 editions has been an amazing experience—not to mention juggling launch duties with becoming a father of three. I find myself working at the oddest times, and trying to squeeze as much as I can from every spare minute. Such was the case recently, when I was heading home prior Read more
Hi. Patrick O’Rourke here – I am also a Product Manager over in the Windows Server Division. I’m writing because Cactus league isn’t in full bloom yet, and I’m still waiting for Gary and Bob to be fired so I can be interested in the NHL again. I was watching news from Intel’s Dev Forum, and Read more
Pretty cool stuff! From the IBM webpage: DB2 UDB is the world’s fastest database with the #1 TPC-C benchmark in the world that delivered performance over 2.7 times faster than the nearest competitor. Moreover, DB2 UDB V8.2 has just published the fastest TPC-C result on 8-way Intel® Itanium® 2 running 64-bit Window Server 2003. DB2’s Read more
On our last post – we had a comment about the RC2 Build crashing and not knowing where to go for support: Posted @ 2/25/2005 6:07 PMOn top of that (2 downloads, 2 burns) it crashes on me after install finishes and it reboots. Next, I don’t know of a place to report this bug. Read more
