Microsoft web developers branded pants
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| The strokers of beards and Volish nay-sayers have been claiming that reason
| is Windows Server 2008. They claim this on the very safe assumption that
| since Microsoft installed it, vole.com has been running like a condemned man
| with his legs cut off on his way to his own execution.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/11/microsoft-web-developers-pants
The curse of Vista codebase or just a bad deployment? Either way, it has been
predicted (even expected) before that Longhorn would stink as much as Vista.
They share the same DNA.
Related:
The Flash preloader here uses the Fedora Spinner (Microsoft.com uses Linux):
https://www. microsoft.com/ servers/ faces/default.aspx
This eWeek [on Servers]
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| I asked Jason about Windows Server's newfound security: "The first time
| I heard about this new feature," he said, "I thought it was clearly a
| response to Linux.
|
| Windows Server 2008 isn't quite there yet, according to Jason's tests.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2134429,00.asp
Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features
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| The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor
| technology to try to stick to its schedule of releasing the
| technology within 180 days of completing its Windows Server
| "Longhorn" operating system, due to be finalized before the
| end of the year.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6182852.html
MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
Developers
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| "With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented
| architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really
| ugly for the Windows division," my friend claimed, and the BV's
| core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde
| Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
|
| [...]
|
| He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
| Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take
| awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to
| come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball."
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http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt
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