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Licensing Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a stand-alone product that will be available via the Microsoft Download Center free of charge.
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 does not require CALs for the product itself.
• CALs will be required for all Windows Server virtualized operating systems which are hosted on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 will be available in the following languages:
  • English (EN-US)
  • German (DE-DE)
  • Japanese (JA-JP)
  • French (FR-FR)
  • Spanish (ES-ES)
  • Chinese Hong-Kong (ZH-HK)
  • Chinese Simplified (ZH-CN)
  • Korean (KO-KR)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (PT-BR)
  • Chinese Traditional (ZH-TW)
  • Italian (IT-IT)
  • Russian (RU-RU)

Source: HV

Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on its suite of Microsoft-hosted services known as the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).

Microsoft is going to deliver a near-final Release Candidate test build of BPOS on September 26 and is telling users that a final build of the BPOS product should be released within 30 days, according to a September 25 posting to the Microsoft Online Services blog. From the new entry:

“On that date, BPOS will be available for purchase in the United States. Those that are in the BPOS TAP (Technology Adoption Program) program or are current Beta users will continue to enjoy the service free of charge until 30 days after GA (general availability).”

Full Article – http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1609

On Monday, Sept. 29, Microsoft is launching the SQL Server 2008 Experience online at http://www.SQLServerExperience.com. With more than 500 short videos in 11 different languages, the SQL Server 2008 Experience is a Web site that helps Microsoft’s global customers and partners learn more about SQL Server 2008, Microsoft’s recently released data management and business intelligence platform. SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive and intelligent data platform for business-critical applications. The launch of the SQL Server 2008 Experience kicks off a worldwide readiness outreach that will reach over 350,000 customers, partners and community members through in-person events over the next year.

Visitors to the SQL Server 2008 Experience can expect the following:

•Brief interviews with the SQL Server Engineering team, providing a behind-the-scenes view of the many technologies in SQL Server 2008

•Guidance on a wide range of topics such as business intelligence, compliance, upgrades and application development, including videos from customers showing how SQL Server 2008 is helping them be more successful. Customers that will be featured include Xerox Corp., Baltika Breweries and DriveCam Inc.

•Great deals on SQL Server 2008 books, courses and exams offered by Microsoft Learning

When: Sept. 29, 2008, at 8 a.m. PDT

Where: Online at http://www.SQLServerExperience.com

Article – Microsoft.com

SQL Server 2008 is a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform for all your data needs. SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, any time. It enables you to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, such as documents, images and music, directly in the database. SQL Server 2008 delivers a rich set of integrated services that enable you to do more with your data such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze. Data can be stored and accessed in your largest servers within the data center all the way down to desktops and mobile devices, enabling you to have control over your data no matter where it is stored.

This fully functional trial software will automatically expire after six months. You can obtain the fully licensed version at any time.

Full Article – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6b10c7c1-4f97-42c4-9362-58d4d088cd38&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2008 is a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform for all your data needs. SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, any time. It enables you to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, such as documents, images and music, directly in the database. SQL Server 2008 delivers a rich set of integrated services that enable you to do more with your data such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze. Data can be stored and accessed in your largest servers within the data center all the way down to desktops and mobile devices, enabling you to have control over your data no matter where it is stored.

This fully functional trial software will automatically expire after six months. You can obtain the fully licensed version at any time.

Full Article – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6b10c7c1-4f97-42c4-9362-58d4d088cd38&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft’s Arc Mouse is all about fashion and portability: It folds up into an impossibly small package and comes complete with its own stylish tote bag. The tiny transceiver clips under the mouse during transport and requires no drivers. On the downside, the Arc mouse is an ergonomic disaster and it’s Forward and Back buttons are too far forward on the device to be useful. I’ll be reviewing this mouse soon.

Full Article – http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/ms_arcmouse_photos.asp

Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its cell phone operating system.

Although Microsoft has not publicly said when to expect Windows Mobile 7, partners who had expected to have a final release in their hands by early next year have been told now that it won’t be ready until the second half of next year, sources told CNET News.

The delay is a significant blow for the software maker, which has been counting on the next version of Windows Mobile to enable devices that better rival Apple’s iPhone. Among the features widely expected to be part of the release is advanced gesture recognition, perhaps along the lines of the iPhone, but possibly also using the camera as a means for reading gestures. Microsoft’s Tellme unit, which focuses on speech input, has also been working on Windows Mobile 7 features.

Full Article – http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10048061-56.html

Cray CX1 Supercomputer With Windows HPC Server 2008 and Intel Xeon Processors Starts at $25,000 and Provides “Ease-of-Everything” for New Users of HPC

SEATTLE, WA and REDMOND, WA, Sep 16, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) — Supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) today introduced the new Cray CX1 supercomputer pre-installed with Windows HPC Server 2008. With U.S. list prices starting at $25,000 to over $60,000, “ease-of-everything” features and the ability to fit into standard office environments and workflows, the new product reflects Microsoft and Cray’s shared goal to drive high productivity computing farther into the mainstream in a broad array of markets including financial services, aerospace, automotive, petroleum, life sciences, government, academic and digital media.

Full Article – http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1197689

NEW YORK — Sept. 22, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has released to manufacturing its newest server — Windows HPC Server 2008, giving Wall Street firms an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective and scalable high-performance computing (HPC) solution. Today’s event kicks off a series of global launch activities in the coming weeks to support the new product.

During a keynote address at the 2008 High Performance on Wall Street conference, Bill Laing, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Windows Server and Solutions Division, discussed how financial services firms are increasingly turning to HPC resources to conduct real-time and intra-day risk analysis in response to the turbulent market environment.

Full Article – http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-22HPCLaunch08PR.mspx

In the coming days, weeks, and months, the Microsoft community will be consumed by a widening deluge of information about Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista. Now, I know what you’re thinking: Most of you haven’t even deployed Vista yet, and many of you are still horrified at the thought of doing so. Is it too soon to begin a discussion of Windows 7?

Full Article – http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/win7_toosoon.asp

With the Windows Live Wave 3 beta due to start today, we thought we’d provide our readers with a small headstart on the rest of the world. Here’s the download links for the new Wave 3 suite of applications, including Messenger v9, Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail with Calendar synchronisation, Writer, Photo Gallery, Family Safety and the Outlook Connector. For the paranoid amongst you, yes the files are hosted on download.microsoft.com.

http://tinyurl.com/liveside-wlwave3web

Full Article – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2008/09/16/windows-live-wave-3-betas-download-now.aspx

With the Windows Live Wave 3 beta due to start today, we thought we’d provide our readers with a small headstart on the rest of the world. Here’s the download links for the new Wave 3 suite of applications, including Messenger v9, Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail with Calendar synchronisation, Writer, Photo Gallery, Family Safety and the Outlook Connector. For the paranoid amongst you, yes the files are hosted on download.microsoft.com.

http://tinyurl.com/liveside-wlwave3web

Full Article – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2008/09/16/windows-live-wave-3-betas-download-now.aspx

I’ve always had sort of a love-hate relationship with iTunes, software that’s evolved so much over time that it’s become weighed down with extraneous buttons, widgets, and other UI silliness. Too, the Windows version has always been a performance nightmare, a sad joke compared to the responsive UIs of Microsoft digital media applications like Windows Media Player 11 and Zune. And yet, there’s something indelibly enticing about iTunes, something that transcends all the bad vibes I get from this application, something that makes me turn to it again and again. I use iTunes, daily, and I actually like it. I wish it performed better. But I do like it.

Full Article – http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/apple_itunes8.asp

I’ve owned at least one version of every iPod that Apple’s ever released, and I’ve been an unabashed fan of these devices since the first one arrived on my doorstep in late 2001. But let’s be honest here. Several years and millions of devices sold later, a certain amount of fatigue has set in. The iPod line is mature, even tired. And though Apple still insists on releasing “new” iPods every year like clockwork, one gets the sense that even the product’s maker is starting to lose interest. This year, Apple issued only one totally new iPod, the iPod nano 4G, while providing just minor revisions to a second, the iPod touch 2G.

Full Article – http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/apple_ipods_2008.asp

Publicly, Microsoft has said Windows 7, the successor operating system to the firm’s much maligned Windows Vista, will not ship until early 2010, but its internal calendar has June 3, 2009 as the planned release date, InternetNews.com has learned.

Also, Microsoft will use its Professional Developer’s Conference in late October as the launch platform for the first public beta of Windows 7. Microsoft plans to release the first beta on October 27, the first day of the show, when Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie will be the keynote speaker.

Full Article – http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3771391