Apr 22, 2009
Whether you’re a fan of Team USA swimming or not, you have to admit it was pretty exciting when the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay somehow came from behind to win gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Thanks to some exciting new media serving technologies we...
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Mar 18, 2009
They say that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas , but there’s no way we can keep to ourselves what was announced this morning here at MIX09 . At our annual conference for Web developers and designers, Corporate VP Scott Guthrie , who runs our .NET...
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Feb 18, 2009
You read that right. All MIX09 attendees will receive a fully functional copy (the real deal) of Windows Web Server 2008 at no cost. That’s nearly a $500 value! Windows Web Server 2008 is a robust and reliable foundation on which to develop, deliver,...
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Feb 17, 2009
The old IIS Extensions train keeps on rollin’. Last month we hit RTW with the Web Platform Installer V1.0 (Why do we call it V1.0? Just wait until you see V2.0) and as you know, Web PI is the one-stop shop for discovering, downloading and installing the...
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Feb 09, 2009
Do you remember the tale of the Windows Server 2008 “Lone Server” ? Maybe it was read to you as a bedtime story as a change from “Mommy, Why Is There a Server in the House?” There he was, this poor Windows Server 2003 server, all alone in a server farm...
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Nov 12, 2008
Microsofties are often described as “work hard, play hard” types, and that can be no truer than when applied to the IIS team . Over the last few weeks, we have been out in force to deliver the good word about IIS 7.0 and IIS Extensions at conferences...
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Oct 15, 2008
Very recently, we announced the availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta. If you remember, this is a tool that allows you to obtain and install Web server components, development tools and database technologies to implement...
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