Hi, microfone Nash aqui do grupo de gerência do produto de Windows em Microsoft. Nós somos excitados hoje para anunciar que nós liberamos o bloco 1 do serviço para Windows Vista ao manufacturing (RTM) para nosso primeiro jogo das línguas (inglês, francês, espanhol, alemão e japonês).

O bloco 1 do serviço é um marco miliário muito importante porque se dirige a muitos das edições chaves que nossos clientes identificaram com Windows Vista sobre o ano passado, diretamente e com os programas como o programa de melhoria da experiência do cliente. Com bloco 1 do serviço, nós fizemos o progresso grande no desempenho, na confiabilidade e na compatibilidade. Uma das coisas grandes sobre meu trabalho é que eu começo jogar com as configurações as mais atrasadas de nossos produtos - eu tenho funcionado pessoalmente Windows Vista SP1 consideravelmente exclusivamente por alguns meses e eu observei que meus sistemas funcionam mais rapidamente e mais confiantemente do que eles fiz com a liberação do “ouro” de Windows Vista.

Quando nós liberamos primeiramente Windows Vista o ano passado, havia uns lotes dos clientes que tiveram experiências grandes, mas alguns tiveram edições encontrar as aplicações que trabalharam bem em Windows Vista; outros tiveram problemas encontrar os excitadores de dispositivo direitos para alguns dos dispositivos de ferragem que usaram.

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Introduzindo a avaliação e planear de Microsoft 3.0

Para aqueles de você a que estão considerando a migração de seu infrastructure do desktop e do usuário Windows Vista SP1 e usuário 2008 de Windows, nós temos notícias boas para você!

Como nós temos anunciado em TechEd O Forum 2007 em Barcelona último novembro, a equipe dos Accelerators da solução de Microsoft está indo liberar a versão expandida da avaliação 2.1 da ferragem de Windows Vista chamada Avaliação de Microsoft e planeamento 3.0 (MAPA do aka).

No short, MAPA is an automated agent-less network-wide inventory and assessment tool that can quickly determine if your organization’s desktops and servers are ready for migration to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

What do I mean by AGENT-LESS inventory? Simply put, it means that you do not need to launch any software agents on any of those machines you want this tool to inventory and query - so no more security concerns and user interruption!

It offers quick network-wide inventory of machines and generate hardware and device compatibility reports with actionable recommendations in the form of auto-generated proposal documents - perfect documentation for your IT project planning in the new fiscal year!

The best part is that

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There’s been some speculation online that Windows, Dell and (RED) are going to make an announcement later this week at Davos. Wouldn’t it be incredible if, through the simple act of choosing a PC, and at no extra cost to you, you could put someone living with AIDS in Africa on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for more than six months? Windows, Dell and (RED) are proud to introduce our (PRODUCT) RED products later this week. Look for details in the coming days…

I’m relaying the following article on behalf of my colleague Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise. It’s the first in a series of posts from Shanen exploring what we’re doing to make it simpler and easier to introduce and get the most out of virtualization of Windows in enterprise environments.

Today we’re making a series of announcements outlining our company-wide strategy for virtualization from the desktop to the datacenter.

For all the hype and excitement in the industry, the primary scenario of using machine-level hardware virtualization to consolidate server machines has been used on less than 10% of hardware servers. While virtualization started in server consolidation, it is only a small piece of the value offered by virtualization. Nowadays virtualization is not a single technology; instead, it is a collection of technologies that can be applied to all aspects of the server and the desktop. Less than 1% of desktops take advantage of virtualization and yet machine virtualization, application virtualization, presentation virtualization and even profile virtualization are upcoming virtualization techniques that when applied can increase the flexibility, business continuity, security and agility of desktop deployments. Application virtualization — the notion of reducing conflicts between

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Today Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch posted about an important milestone in the development of the next version of Internet Explorer, IE8. As of last week – 12 December, to be exact – the latest build correctly renders the Acid2 browser test in IE8 standards mode. As Dean points out, this is just one of many milestones ahead for Internet Explorer 8 and we can expect to hear more as further progress is made.

IE8 will be at MIX08, with a beta release due sometime in the first half of 2008.

If you have questions on IE8 and the team’s progress, those are best directed to the IE Team blog.

Hi all! It’s been a little bit over 2 months since my last blog on the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 (WVHA) release back in August. You may wonder what our dev team is up to. Well, aside from getting the much needed rest, we have been busy working Read More……(read more)