October 2008 Entries
What is ReMix? A 48 hr conversation all about the ‘Next Web’, what it means today and the potential impact of technologies, tools and techniques for the future. Inspiring designers and developers to take the media they love to new levels of user experience. ReMix UK 08 has ended, here are the recorded sessions for your viewing pleasure. http://www.microsoft.com/uk...
Posted On Friday, October 10, 2008 12:38 PM | Feedback (7)
I came across this InfoWorld news article today on an open source SDK for creating multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. Wouldn't it be cool to have this kind of application to work on your mobile phone with the built-in camera? I have played a couple of proprietary games on the mobile phone that have this kind of capability, it's nice that Microsoft CodePlex is making touchless SDK accessible to the masses. Get the SDK here: www.codeplex.com/touchless...
Posted On Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:04 AM | Feedback (41)
The Windows Cloud OS called Windows Azure that had been under the code name Red dog project for a long time has been officially announced in the keynote by Ray Ozzie on the first day of the PDC in LA (27th Oct 2008). I blogged about coming across the name Windows Strata previously but this turned out to be a red herring, Strata name have never been confirmed by anyone in Microsoft. For announcements made at PDC 2008 see the following blog post: http://geekswithblogs.net/k...
Posted On Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:17 AM | Feedback (1012)
The following table summarizes the differences between different Server OS's capable of Hyper-V. http://www.microsoft.com/se... The following table outlines which Hyper-V–enabled product would suit your needs: Virtualization Needs Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 Standard Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Server Consolidation Test and Development Mixed OS Virtualization (Linux and Windows) Local Graphical User Interface...
Posted On Saturday, October 04, 2008 3:50 PM | Feedback (28)
The following lists the announcements made at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in LA Major announcements: Cloud services: SQL Services (includes SSDS), .Net Services, and Live Services .NET application development technologies for the Internet cloud. New set of .NET APIs for developers to build applications to deploy to the cloud. Cloud OS: Windows Azure Based on Mary Jo's post way back in June, Red Dog project describes the Windows Cloud OS called Windows Azure. This platform as stated...
Posted On Friday, October 03, 2008 9:45 PM | Feedback (5)
Our great leader in London... http://www.thewebpitch.com/... "Windows Cloud" OS, a Vista successor? http://www.downloadsquad.co
Posted On Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:17 PM | Feedback (2)