Rackspace is now taking names for their beta program for Cloud Servers for Windows. They plan to launch the beta in early 2010 with competitive pricing (vs their Linux servers):
Cloud Servers for Windows Server Size
Hourly Charge
512 MB
$ 0.04
1 GB
$ 0.08
2 GB
$ 0.16
4 GB
$ [...]
The sign of the times indeed…
I wanted to highlight Microsoft’s VHD Test Drive program to make your software evals that much easier and seamless. You can now even download a 90-day pre-built Windows 7 virtual machine.
Other trending products include Office Communicator, Server 2008 R2, and Exchange 2010 RC.
Enjoy: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738372.aspx
Dear VMware,
In case you hadn’t heard, I wanted to formerly notify you that Microsoft will be releasing its next generation operating system: Windows 7 this month on October 22, 2009. I hope you will be able to make it a supported Guest platform sometime in the near future.
Sincerely,
Ryan
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I will start of by disclaiming that this [...]
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It’s pretty common knowledge that USB is not supported on the enterprise virtualization platform (VMware’s ESX and Microsoft’s Hyper-V to name the big players). My question is: why not? I posed to this to our VMware rep recently during a “roadmap” discussion and the best answer that I got was that it’s not in their [...]