Working at Microsoft on the Hyper-V team, I spend most of my life using prerelease versions of Windows on a day-to-day basis. In every release of Windows I have worked on, there comes a point in time when I have become so accustomed to new features or functionality in the next release of Windows that it really bugs me to
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Over on the Windows Server team blog – Bill Laing has announced the availability of the Windows Server “8” beta (which you can download now):
http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/03/01/windows-server-8-beta-available-now.aspx
There is lots of cool new Hyper-V functionality in there – and as I migrated my last Windows Server 2008 R2 server to Windows Server 8 last weekend – I am looking
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Over on the Windows Server team blog – Bill Laing has announced the availability of the Windows Server “8” beta (which you can download now):
http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/03/01/windows-server-8-beta-available-now.aspx
There is lots of cool new Hyper-V functionality in there – and as I migrated my last Windows Server 2008 R2 server to Windows Server 8 last weekend – I am looking
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In case you have not read any other websites today – you can grab the Windows 8 Consumer Preview now!
Full details are here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview
You should also read some of the great posts on the Building Windows 8 blog that give you some more information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/29/welcome-to-windows-8-the-consumer-preview.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/29/running-the-consumer-preview-system-recommendations.aspxCheers, Ben
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Here is something you probably did not know – dynamic memory can actually help with live migration of virtual machines. When you live migrate a virtual machine that has dynamic memory enabled, we perform some tricks to help with the overall migration process. Particularly, when you live migrate the virtual machine, we do not add more memory to the virtual
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With IE10 in Windows 8, we reimagined the browser. We designed and built IE10 to be the best way to experience the Web on Windows. Consumers can now enjoy more touch-friendly and beautiful, fast and fluid Web applications with the updated IE10 engine included in the Windows Consumer Preview. This fifth Platform Preview of IE10 delivers improved
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This morning in the United States, the White House announced a new “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” as part of the effort to improve consumers’ online privacy. As I’ve mentioned before, Microsoft is actively participating in the industry initiative for Tracking Protection at the W3C to produce Web
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When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies. Below we spell out
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A little while ago I published a number of posts discussing the process I used to move my virtual machines from using dynamically expanding virtual hard disks to using fixed-size virtual hard disks. There were some interesting questions / discussions in the comments – so I thought I would try to sum them up here:
Why would I use dynamically expanding
A long time ago – I blogged about how to handle WMI job objects in Hyper-V. The short story here is that if you script or program against Hyper-V – chances are you will need to look at WMI jobs to find out whether requested operations have completed (operations like starting a virtual machine, creating a virtual hard disk or
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