Hi folks, I'm a firm believer in as a developer knowing how your operating system is going to run your program. Learning as much about the environment is a big winner in my book. I was fortunate to be notified by an excited Anthony Borton telling Read More

Bill Gates has announced at WinHEC, that the official name for what was previously known as Windows Server codenamed "Longhorn" is Windows Server 2008. Read the press release for Bill's "Latest Microsoft Products Driving Hardware Innovation and Platform Read More

As Ken pointed out, Windows Server codenamed "Longhorn" Beta 3 is now available for download from the Microsoft website. As part of this beta release, Microsoft has made available a Go-Live license for IIS7/Longhorn Beta 3. On the www.iis.net website, Read More

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about "Getting started with Longhorn - One day 'Technical Readiness' workshops" and I included registration links to events in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Well the interest in the free workshops has been so good, that Read More

For those of you eager to try out some of the great new features in Longhorn, you don't necessarily need to download the ISO and spend time installing the OS just to get your hands dirty. There are a number of virtual labs available on Technet that allow Read More

The Microsoft Technical Readiness Team will be running a number of one day workshops in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne at the end of May that I thought might be of interest. Outline This one-day technical readiness event is designed to introduce you Read More