Microsoft has revealed its new social media tool called Spindex. The idea is that the new tool will be able to take all of your social media connections and display them on one page from popular services like Twitter, Facebook, Bing, and soon to be many more services.   From Spindex’s landing page, “Spindex allows you to access and interact with your social networks, see trends from your friends, and see related info from Bing on literally everything you click on. Spindex proactively finds us

When we started planning IE9, we recognized the need for a better feedback loop with developers. The developer community was clear that they wanted pre-release builds of the browser platform in a consistent rhythm, with a good feedback mechanism.     Seven weeks ago at the MIX Conference, we released the first IE9 Platform Preview. We committed to updating the Preview approximately every eight weeks. Today, we’re releasing the second Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, available n

(Pardon the interruption on the Dynamic Memory blogs, but I was busy at MMS 2010 and needed to blog this content. I'll have more on DM soon.)   Virtualization Nation,   We just wrapped up Microsoft Management Summit 2010 (MMS) in Las Vegas. MMS is the premier event of the year for deep technical information and training on the latest IT Management solutions from Microsoft, Partners, and Industry Experts. MMS 2010 was a huge success from a number of standpoints. Starting with sold out attenda

watch it here     Lots of R3 info !   cheers niall

The availability of Windows 7 Enterprise (Eval) 90-day Trial is being extended to Dec 31, 2010. Intended primarily for IT pros, the 90-day trial is the full-featured Enterprise SKU that will enable any organization to explore, test hardware and applications, perform pilot activities, and develop deployment scenarios.     http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2010/04/20/video-recap-of-mms-so-far.aspx     and from the Video, here are some highlights:-   an update to MDT 2010 will be released (most likely Sp1 based on Modena),   R3 beta is mentioned !! and that's all about Power Management in Configmgr 2007   "we are very excited to release the R3 beta !!"   the screenshot below is from the video and its the Power Management tab on a collection in SCCM 2007 R3.     The next screenshot show

The System center team is in Las Vegas for #MMS2010, and are hanging out backstage setting up all the 11 keynote demos.   Here are some cool videos of the behind the scenes……..DemoMate looks cool...     http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2010/04/19/back-back-back-stage-videos.aspx

Microsoft has just kicked off the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2010. This year’s theme is Manage the Future: Desktop to Cloud. This theme really reflects where IT systems management is headed right now. During customers conversations the past 6 months, and conversations at MMS so far, there’s a keen interest to understand how the economics, scalability and time to market of cloud services are being applied to desktop and datacenter management. These people want to understand the pros and co