Want to toy around with Windows Vista or Vista with Visual Studio 2005 but not pay for them? Microsoft is making it possible through the magic of virtualization.
Look Mom, take 2: No-script hard drive info, this time using WMIC.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/06/2007
Microsoft said it expects to have Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, its virtual collaboration and conferencing software, released to manufacturing later next month, with availability some time this fall. The company made the announcement at the Tech Ed Conference taking place this week in Orlando, Florida.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/05/2007
Microsoft's subscription-based desktop management program is adding another branch to its tree, in the form of error monitoring to help with crashes.
Speculation has been growing in the media that Windows Server 2008, could be delayed past its RTM and slip into 2008. Microsoft says "it just ain't so."
Microsoft has added another "core" product, one that will make Web hosting companies and Web farm administrators happy: Internet Information Services 7.0 is now available as a server core installation on Windows Server 2008.
The pitfalls of early adoption. Plus, logging in can be a lot easier said than done.
- By Steven Fishman and Alex Albright
- 06/01/2007
Making an isolation group -- step by step.
- By Greg Shields
- 06/01/2007
ImageX is a slick compression tool that can help with Windows Vista deployment, as well as everyday file compression.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese and Tim Duggan
- 06/01/2007
Is it worth migrating servers in the next year?
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2007
The new crop of deployment tools for Windows Vista is a marked improvement over its predecessors.
- By Rhonda Layfield
- 06/01/2007
Whether you're an enterprise network or a small company, there's nothing to be scared of with this Ghost.
- By Greg Shields
- 06/01/2007
IT admins are justifiably excited by the idea of a "server core" in Windows Server 2008, formerly code-named Longhorn Server. The technology, which strips out extraneous functionality to allow just the services needed to run a server in a specific role, promises easier installation and a smaller footprint once set up. It even has implications for security.
Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/30/2007
Warning to users of pre-release versions of Windows Vista: In two days, your operating system will self-destruct, like the cassette tape at the beginning of "Mission: Impossible."