As Microsoft released the Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 for Customer Review, I just decided to speed-link to all the important and related latest updates:
FTP7 for Windows Server 2008 RC0
Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 RC0
Windows Web Server 2008 RC0
Windows Server 2008 RC0 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2008 RC0 for Itanium-based Systems
Windows Server 2008 RC0 [...]

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Bill Gates will now be answering to your questions. He is unreachable and will be replying to some of the selected questions from NEWSWEEK readers in this exclusive Web forum.
Here is the report: Ask Gates
He’s impressive, he’s inspirational—and for most people, he’s unreachable. But Gates has agreed to take questions from NEWSWEEK readers in this [...]

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Microsoft has recently launched a website called Real Live Moms from Windows Live that offers a space for moms to create a personalized space and network with other moms.
In Short, here is a list of few stuffs that Real Live Moms from Windows Live can let moms do:

Create a scrapbook slide show, blogs using Windows [...]

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Microsoft has now joined the free language translation services on the web. They have now launched the Windows Live Translator (beta) that allows you to translate between the following languages: English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
You can either translate text of upto 500 words of a whole website. But we will get [...]

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The wait is over. I have been blogging about the Virtualization products  by Microsoft and also got some ready reference. I also mentioned about the long awaited Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (code named “Carmine”). Now it is finally here. Microsoft has officially announced the release of SCVMM through their Virtualization Team Blog.
There are 4 [...]

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If you are an SQL Server DBA, here is a good tool developed by Jamie Thomson, John Rayner and their team to monitor your SQL Server installation from Windows Vista Sidebar.
The gadget does exactly what it says on the tin; it monitors a specified SQL Server database for various metrics and displays them on the Windows Vista Sidebar. It [...]

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Here is a secretly recorded Windows PowerShell Training video said to be held at an event in Microsoft aimed at driving adoption of the new scripting language.

Video: Secret Video of Windows Powershell Training
I too simply love PowerShell. Indeed PowerShell Rocks! But I say the truth and not as for the above hillarious part. This is my way of [...]

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Microsoft has announced its plan to increase the free email storage limit of Windows Live Hotmail from 2GB to 5GB. Currently Google is providing 2.8 GB limit and recently Yahoo! and Rediff announced to provide unlimited storage space. Technically, this now positions itself on second after Yahoo! and Rediff competing ahead of Google.
However, paid users [...]

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Microsoft Connect has updated a new program Offline Patch management for VM’s (Codename-Himalaya) under Solution Accelerators. You can apply now if you are registered with Connect and the grace period for participation ends September 9th. Till then they are collecting feedbacks to get the customers requirements in offling patching of Virtual machines after which Microsoft [...]

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Microsoft has announced the Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) by opening it in Technology Preview.  This will now include:
Support for Windows Server 2008
Enhanced integration with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
Improved mobile device management
Advanced security technology
Enhanced user experience in Outlook Web Access
Greater functionality in the Exchange Server 2007 Management Console
Improved disaster recovery capabilities through Standby Continuous Replication
Key [...]

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