Windows 7 will RTM in July with general availablity (i.e. in the shops) in October!!

Of course if you have a licensing agreement with Microsoft you will probably be able to download it sooner

This is great news because W7 really looks to be our best Windows release ever!!

 

Windows 7 Team Blog – The Windows Blog
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/default.aspx

Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1021

With the launch of our new search decision engine Bing we are really starting to make an impact in search!

For the best possible search experience add Bing to your Internet Explorer search here

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/searchhelpers/Bing_Search/

Now this is pretty cool.

With the new Windows 7 RC just out we can provide virtualization out of the box by downloading and installing the Windows Virtual PC bits from here.

Note that this also provides the benefit of the Windows XP virtualization mode, but that is outside the scope of this post as it is really only something for businesses and enterprises with special compatibility requirements.

Once the small update is completed you have Virtual PC installed and can run existing VPC images or create new images.

But how? Once you start looking for a management console or search for Virtual PC you see that it is missing.

The solution is to open the Virtual PC folder in your Documents location and use the “Create Virtual Machine” and “Settings” commands directly.

Really cool video on the UK Xbox site.

http://specials.uk.msn.com/Xbox/default.aspx

I want to see more ads like this

This would truly have been awesome

 

http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/a/alpinelegend/

Finally we released Internet Explorer 8, the latest, safest and fastest web browser for Windows from Microsoft.

A lot of new changes include

• Available in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 within x86 and x64 editions.
• Performance has been a major area of investment in Internet Explorer 8, and the JavaScript engine itself is 70% faster than the one shipped in IE7.
• Tab crash isolation – when one tab of the browser fails, it doesn’t bring down the entire browser.
• New features includes Full CSS 2.1 Support, accelerators, web slices and provider model for Visual Search.
• There are over 1,200 accelerators, web slices and visual search providers out there already today, including Digg, ESPN, OneRiot, Amazon, Sina, TaoBao, and Yahoo. Get some at http://ieaddons.com
• IE blocks over a million phishing and malware attacks a month. (Check more at: http://www.nsslabs.com/anti-malware/browser-security

Also since it is running in backwards compatibility mode for Intranet sites (fully configurable of course) there is really no reason not to upgrade!!

Get going at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8

Time flies when you are having fun. We are doing so much cool stuff that I am not able to keep up

But the most important part is that the snow is melting and you can actually see some asphalt. I have already been out running twice this week, 10 km + on Wednesday and about 5.5 km yesterday!! Whoho, it feels really really nice being out again.

The bike is next now, just a few more weeks.

Tip: If you want to create a OneNote template containing a number of pages just save the notebook as a single file (.onepkg) to %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.

My best friend Max is 9 years today

Happy Birthday!! I wish for many happy years to come.

Our set of tools, best pracices, scripts, code and documentation that can be used to create scalable and highly-available hosting environments.

Should also be interesting if you run your own IT operations.

http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/solutions/windowsserverhostingguidance.mspx

This is useful; a great IE add-in by the MS European Global Product Development Team that allows you to detect memory leaks in JavaScript code.

Head over to their blog to download the add-in and instructions.

http://blogs.msdn.com/gpde/pages/javascript-memory-leak-detector.aspx

Got any good new years resolutions?

If you don’t, or need help with them why not try using the “Resolution Randomizer” at http://resolutionrandomizer.pop.us/ecard.aspx.

“Look out for thinking out loud under the table”… I think I can keep that

Happy New Year!!

(Thanks to BradA for the link)

I would just like to wish everyone Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season!!

The Xbox 360 just got an overhaul with the new Xbox Expericene.

As the Xbox is now the most affordable console wtih a wide range of games and the new interface is really really cool

If you are developing, hosting and operating a web application you need to ensure that your uses have the best possible experience. We have a tool called Visual Round Trip Analyzer that can help you find bottlenecks and improve the application performance on both client- and server side.

VRTA is highlighted in this months MSDN Magazine ; read the “12 Steps To Faster Web Pages With Visual Round Trip Analyzer” and download the tool.

Now go and make your app a better place :