May 2012 - Posts
Today, Microsoft has made the Release Preview available for Windows 8. This is great news, since the Release Preview is Sinofsky-speak for Release Candidate (RC). Typically, in Microsoft development this is the last pre-release version of the product
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Windows Server “8” has reached the Release Candidate (RC) stage of the development cycle. Nowadays, we call the new Windows Server “Windows Server 2012” and while playing around with it on high performance hardware in its Beta stage, it already impressed
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As a TechEd Alumni and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), sometimes interesting opportunities cross your path. When the opportunity presented itself to staff at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012, I didn’t need to think twice. As a consequence,
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This week I got the chance to work with some x86 High Performance Computing hardware at the Donald Smits Center for Information Technology (CIT) at the University of Groningen . Their hardware typically contains more than 64 logical processors and TBs
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Today, Daniel van Soest and Rik van Berendonk visited the University of Groningen to play with Windows Server 2012 on some serious systems. Serious systems When I talk ‘serious systems’ I’m talking about a fully-fledged HP ProLiant DL980G7 and a Dell
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