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In a blog entry posted Wednesday, Microsoft offered a glimpse of what will be in the first major update of Exchange Server 2010, due later this year.
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will bring a range of new features and capabilities to the back office mail server software, including improvements to the software’s archiving functionality [...]

Paul Thurrott made the comments in his weekly WinInfo short takes where he stated “Office 2010 for Windows, meanwhile, will become generally available June 15, 2010.” Microsoft recently released a release candidate version of Office 2010 to technical beta testers. According to company insiders, the software giant plans to Release to Manufacturing (RTM) Office 2010 by the [...]

A new discovery of a recently-departed Microsoft employee’s blog has revealed a rough version of Microsoft’s roadmap for key software, including Windows 8 (PDF). If a reflection of Microsoft’s tentative plans, it would have Windows 8 released to manufacturing (RTM) on July 1st, 2011, or just two years after Windows 7 was finished. Windows Server 2012 [...]

I’ve read a lot of things on the newsgroups and the web on the versions and editions of Windows that SharePoint 2010 can support. Seems some point must be clarify and MS Sharepoint Team has done a post regarding this.
So in a first time we must remember SharePoint 2010 will support only 64-bit (x64) versions [...]

Microsoft has released the first CTP of a SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL v1.0, which automates aspects of the migration process to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 & 2008 (including SQL Azure DB).
SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL is the newest migration toolkit. The toolkits were designed to simplify the complex manual process to [...]

Microsoft Press and TechNet Magazine have created an ebook on Windows 7 Deployment. 10 selected chapters from the Windows 7 Resource Kit on Deployment Platforms, Planning, Testing Application Compatibility and 8 Common Issues in Windows 7 Migrations.
The Windows 7 Resource Kit has been written by Mitch Tulloch,Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows [...]

Microsoft Press offer for a limited time a free Ebook on Office 2010. 3 parts splits in 14 chapters to have a good overview of new possibilites.
Download is available here.

Exchange 2010 Beta is available since few weeks only and the first update Rollup is already out.
A full description is available here and you can get it here.

Windows 2008 R2 is coming with nice managments tools. But sometimes it is not enought. So at Code403 we are using a free opensource software to manage many things (Drivers, DCPromo, share,…)
This tool is Core Configurator and the version 2.0 is now available.
“It is built and designed for Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition!
It is [...]

Well, even if nothing has been annonce about Windows 8 server at PDC 2009, it seems some annonces have been done to partners… well, An interesting Microsoft product roadmap has turned up. The information is consistent with all previsous roadmaps: the year 2012 could be a tentative timeframe for a “major release” code named Windows 8.
This would put [...]