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Mosey on over to Trika's blog for the link to get 40% off of your MCSE Windows 2008 upgrade exam. You must hold your MCSE Windows 2003 by June 30, 2007 to qualify. Go. Now. Run.
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Download the Windows Vista pre-configured virtual hard drive and get a head start on testing applications on Windows Vista.
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I have had this brought up by some co-workers and wondered if anyone from MS would like to officially comment? When Outlook 2003 was released there was the potential for un-patched Exchange 5.5 information stores to get corrupted or experience problems and dismount. Is Outlook 2007 officially (as in written somewhere - not just anecdotally) supported against a mailbox on an Exchange 2003 SP2 server? Comments welcomed.
Update: I finally found, buried here, this: Connectivity
to Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later is required for certain advanced
functionality in Outlook 2007.
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Dell has announced on it's Direct 2 Dell website that it will be releasing a Latitude Tablet PC in the second half of 2007. It will be using "leadership technology" and be optimized for the education, healthcare and corporate Tablet PC markets. It does look nice and thin and I cannot wait to start getting reports on this puppy once reviewable units start hitting the street.
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Latitude
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I was happy to see that Stardock was using it's skinning expertise to provide themes for it's Object Desktop suite of programs. After all, their skins are arguably the best. I have looked high and low for a good Ohio State theme and to be honest, none have blown me away. So when I saw Stardock Design debut the My Colors line I was excited. I was less excited to see them select the morons from TSUN as their first skin, but I suppose some people can be bought. Then they added insult to injury and completed the Florida Gators theme as well. Their sales department had no comment on if or when any OSU theme would come to life. As I browsed the latest email blurb from them on their excellent Object Dock Plus, I noticed an announcement on the Ohio State theme. Hoo-ray!
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Betalicious . . . mmmmmm Halo.
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Mary Jo Foley caught a good one over at the presspass website for WinHEC 2007. Originally, listed in the link bar is a link for "Windows Server 2008 reviewer guide" which linked to the Longhorn Server Beta 3 guide. She even took a screen shot of the link bar in case Microsoft changed it after realizing the blunder. The name has not been officially announced yet. And was she ever right. I have a shot here of the new link bar in which it reads "Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" Beta 3." Nice.
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I have always been a big fan of the Thinkpad. While traditionally more expensive, they are one of the most reliable and best made laptops around. They are also one of the best made for the enterprise and boast a ton of management capabilities built in, both at the hardware and software level, for support and end users. The Dell is pitiful in comparison in this regard. They also allow their design team to blog openly about the thought process behind design decisions on their laptops. The transparency is refreshing. This latest post is in regard to the new model designs in the widescreen T61 and R61 supporting the Santa Rosa chipset from Intel. They even built a weight-neutral roll cage in to the display to better protect it from bowing. And a battery extender function that lets you say "I need to extend battery life for another 10 minutes" and then shuts down non-essential processes to help you as best it can accomplish this goal. Nice.
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Here is an interesting story: someone switched from Mac OS X to Windows Vista and reports a faster, more pleasurable experience.
Quote: "I didn’t expect it to be like this, I didn’t want Vista to be this good - I was expecting to boot back into OS X and living happily ever after, but damn, this is one fast, slick and nice operating system. If you are a Mac user try it yourself, install boot camp and Vista and it will feel like you just added another CPU and doubled your RAM - I can’t see any evidence for any of the reports of Vista being slow or power-hungry."
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As of SP2, Exchange 2003 was supported in production in a Microsoft virtual environment. Now that Exchange 2007 requires 64 bits to be supported in production and Microsoft does not have a virtualization platform that supports a 64 bit guest, Exchange 2007 is not supported in production in a virtual environment.
From the Microsoft document Technical Architecture of Exchange 2007:
Exchange 2007 and Virtualization
Exchange 2007 is not supported in production in a virtual environment; however, as stated above, Microsoft Virtual Server makes a great environment for training, labs, and demos. Exchange 2007 is supported in production environments using only the 64-bit version of Exchange 2007, and currently neither Microsoft Virtual Server nor Microsoft Virtual PC support 64-bit guest systems. Exchange 2007 is also not supported in production in a virtual environment using non-Microsoft virtualization software. For details about the Microsoft support policy for third-party virtualization software, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 897615, Support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software.
The first 64-bit guest support is expected to be included with Hypervisor, which is an add-on for Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" from Microsoft that is scheduled to ship within 180 days of Longhorn. Note that this is within 180 days, meaning it could ship the same day as Longhorn, or it could ship 180 days after Longhorn ships. For more information about Microsoft's virtualization plans, see the Microsoft Machine Virtualization Roadmap Chat-Transcript.
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This is one of my favorite shows on television. Mostly I think, because I am a geek, I love science and I am terrible at math. I love the concepts and in so far as I don't have to actually crunch the numbers, I love math. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
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