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With Longhorn Server, Microsoft will be making some superficial changes to its Active Directory service. Anyone expecting more sweeping, substantial changes to the directory fabric that binds Windows Server will have to wait until 2011 or so. On what am I basing this prediction? Microsoft watchers know the company is revving Windows every two years. […]

Microsoft is incubating two new business- intelligence-focused projects inside its Information Worker Greenhouse. The Greenhouse, which Microsoft launched in 2003, acts like an internal venture capital arm. The Greenhouse team builds prototypes of potential applications and technologies and then seeks wider, corporate backing and financing for these initiatives. Those that arent seen as viable are […]

I was a programmer for 31 years; I wrote, read, debugged and documented a lot of code during my career. Peter Coffees insights into this subject in his Feb. 6 column, “Making Code Perfectly Clear,” are lucid as well as entertaining (Epicenters). The comments in code can be, and often are, misleading, incomplete or missing, […]

While I agree with most of the conclusions in eWEEK Labs article comparing iSCSI and Fibre Channel (“iSCSI takes on Fibre Channel,” Feb. 13), Im not sure how it was decided that iSCSI is good for lower-end applications but that Fibre Channel should still be used for more critical situations. If anything, the test results […]

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Microsoft testers are getting an early look at new functionality designed to allow users to upgrade to more powerful—and, presumably, more expensive—versions of Vista. Microsoft is testing a new Windows upgrade mechanism, known as Windows Anytime Upgrade. A first iteration of the technology is integrated into the February CTP (Community Technology Preview) releases of Vista […]

InfraSpectrum with Peter Coffee is eWEEKs full spectrum scan of developments in enterprise infrastructure, technology, practice and governance. In this weeks podcast, vendors seeking to offer comprehensive RFID middleware platforms should expect hard questions from enterprise buyers about the growth path of the technology; application development tools: out of sight, out of mind? An interview […]

Visual FoxPro developers, oft-overlooked by Microsoft, are about to get an infusion of new technologies aimed at making the FoxPro language interoperable with Windows Vista, Office 2007 and .Net. Microsoft quietly released a first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of “Sedna” on February 27, making it downloadable from the Microsoft Download site. Sedna is the code […]

While testers have been all over the newest Windows Vista Community Technology Preview build, the new Longhorn Server test build, which Microsoft also delivered at the end of February, has gotten far less attention. Testers confirmed that Microsoft has posted on the Connect beta-download site the Longhorn Server Build 5308 bits for download. Microsoft officials […]

Microsoft doesnt believe hands are the only vehicle for driving computers. Feet are equally valid for scrolling and cataloging e-mail and photos, among other tasks, according to researchers working in Microsofts main Redmond research lab. In fact, for those for whom hands are less of an option, as a result of disabilities or injuries, feet […]

Microsoft has turned on the Windows Live tap and software services are starting to really flow from it. On Feb. 28, Microsoft announced the start of the U.S. beta of Windows Live Expo, its online classified service, code-named Fremont. Earlier this month, Microsoft had provided some testers with a private beta release of Windows Live […]

Microsoft will unveil the official Windows Vista version lineup on Feb. 27. While the names of the six core SKUs are familiar, thanks to a recent information leak, some of the specifics regarding the feature list for each variant might catch some company watchers by surprise. Microsoft is readying six core Vista packages, or SKUs, […]