Neil Hutson - Focused on Emerging Technologies for Microsoft
I am responsible for the adoption of emerging technology platforms by developers and it professionals at Microsoft
So What does it feel like being a celebrity at Microsoft?
So what does it feel like being a TechED presenter and a celebrity? Do people turn up because they...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/12/2008
TECHED 2008 - What's In The BAG!!!
What do you get in the bag at TechED this year? Did they get a party pass? Check it out at EDGE....
Author: neilhut Date: 06/11/2008
Bob Muglia Gets a Grilling From An analyst
At TechED, Bob Muglia got a answer some tuff questions from a leading analyst. There are some key...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/11/2008
Back stage TechED ITPRO
Joey and Adam are at TechED this week to give people a behind the scenes look at the event and speak...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/09/2008
Developing Silverlight Apps with Ruby
At the local "RailsConf" conference for Ruby on Rails developers in Portland,...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/06/2008
New Release of Windows Embedded
At TechED this week we announced Windows Embedded Standard 2009, our Windows-compatible,...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/06/2008
Application Support is still the biggest challenge to Virtualization
From a hardware and software perspective the virtualization industry has made leaps and bounds over...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/05/2008
Bill Gates Signs Off with some great Demos
If anybody says that demos do not make a great presentation, there wrong. Through my career at...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/03/2008
Vista 30, Rootkits 0
Keith posted an interesting article about Vista security. He talked about the positive stories...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/29/2008
PDC 2008 Registration OPEN
The great news is that the PDC 2008 registration site is now open. This is going to be one of the...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/28/2008
The Race to the Cloud
As predicted from TechCrunch yesterday, Google has announced the pricing model for their App Engine...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/28/2008
Microsoft migrates MSCOM (MSDN and TechNet) to Hyper-V virtual machines
MSCOM have been working for a while to get their infrastructure completely virtualized. If you were...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/27/2008
SQL Services Data Services (SSDS) Cloud Sample - PhluffyFotos
Ryan has been making some modifications to the PhluffyFotos sample to make it even more easy...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/23/2008
Building the Microsoft Data Center
When we are adding 10,000-20,000 servers to your data center every month, you need to have a pretty...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/22/2008
Worldwide Telescope from Microsoft Research
Keith Combs placed a very cool screencast on EDGE which shows a WorldWide Telescope application from...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/15/2008
SMALL BUSINESS SERVER & ESSENTIAL BUSINESS SERVER preview and demo
So this feels like Demo week for me. Essential Business Server (EBS) demo with Bjorn We just shipped...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/15/2008
WPF Week on Channel9 - READY FOR AN AMAZING DEMO??
On channel9, it is WPF ( Windows Presentation Foundation ) week. This is being hosted by Tim...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/14/2008
.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit - May Preview
The .NET evangelism team just released a revision of the .NET 3.5 SP1 + Enhancements Training Kit,...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/13/2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Interop Support
Matt Hester created a great screencast which showed how IE8 is going to help with Cascading Style...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/06/2008
SAP / Peoplesoft Office Integration Kit
If you’re looking for guidance on how to integrate SAP and/or PeopleSoft into your Office...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/05/2008
Twitter rumor that they are abandoning Ruby on Rails
I guess after two years plugging the holes, there are rumors that Twitter is planning to move from...
Author: neilhut Date: 05/02/2008
Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Labs RELEASED
Jason has just finished the first four labs in a series of Windows Server 2008 Application...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/30/2008
DAY TWO at MMS
So what are the announcements on Day to of MMS? Well today it is all about Microsoft System Center...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/30/2008
DAY ONE at MMS
Adam and Joey are at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas to cover things happening at...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/29/2008
MMS - System Center and Virtual Machine Manager Go Cross Platform
One of the key announcements at MMS today was System Center and Virtual Machine Manager going cross...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/29/2008
What Happens in Vegas stays in The EDGE
Adam and Joey in Vegas for MMS ( Microsoft Management Summit) this week getting a back stage view of...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/29/2008
Installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008
Matt Hester placed a screencast on EDGE which steps you through how to install Microsoft Office...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/28/2008
Microsoft Demo's Live Mesh
We formally demonstrated our synchronization framework, Live Mesh, at the Web 2.0 Expo. Amit Mital...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/24/2008
.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit RELEASED TO WEB
We have just released the .NET 3.5 Enhancements toolkit. The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training kit...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/17/2008
PhluffyFotos.com
Ryan Dunn in the team has just finished off the finishing touches to a services application which...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/14/2008
Upgrading to SQLServer 2008
Joey on the team spoke to Joe Young for EDGE about the work that he is doing to help ITPRO's plan...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/07/2008
AMD to cut jobs
I guess it was inevitable, but after a lot of denial, AMD announced that it would remove 10 percent...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/07/2008
EDGE Sidebar Gadget Goes Live
I have a new gadget on my desktop which provides feeds to the EDGE site, so that it makes it easier...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/07/2008
Announcing ITPRO BOT - The Robot to Support the Datacenter
We have all seen the iRobot Roomba which helps clear the floors in your home, robots to keep your...
Author: neilhut Date: 04/01/2008
Making Terminal Services Sexy with Silverlight
Naren Wicaksono from Microsoft Indonesia built a Silverlight demo which provides a highly graphical...
Author: neilhut Date: 03/24/2008
Windows Server 2008 SP1
On a daily basis I am still getting question from customers about the version numbers on Windows...
Author: neilhut Date: 03/21/2008
Special Announcement
The EDGE guys have a survey coming to get feedback on the site. To announce this, Adam and...
Author: neilhut Date: 03/20/2008
At Home With Charlie Kindel - MORE ON HOME SERVER - INCLUDING THE PUCK SERVER!!!
We wanted to get a little more information about how Home Server is progressing. Adam went right to...
Author: neilhut Date: 03/13/2008
Developer Security Best Practice on Windows
Paul from the UK has put together an excellent (but quite long) document which summarizes the core...
Author: neilhut Date: 03/11/2008
iSCSI with Suzanne and Shiv from the Storage Team
So we have been talking a lot iSCSI as we think that this is a really cool technology for people...
Author: neilhut Date: 03/06/2008
Microsoft Announces SQLServer Data Services ( SSDS). Structured Storage in the Cloud
People seem to have got overly excited about what we are going to announce at Mix. Nicholas Carr...
Author: neilhut Date: 03/05/2008
Microsoft Apps Go ON-LINE For Small Businesses
Today Microsoft announced that it is going to allow access to hosted versions of its software to all...
Author: neilhut Date: 03/03/2008
POWER TOOLS for Visual Studio Tools for Office released to the web
9 new "Power Tools" have been released to the web to help in the development and analysis...
Author: neilhut Date: 02/28/2008
Windows Server 2008 Launch With Iain McDonald
This week David had a chat with Iain McDonald who is the person responsible for getting Windows...
Author: neilhut Date: 02/27/2008
Over 1000 ISVs Supporting Windows Server 2008 at Launch
A new Server Operating System is not a whole lot of good without great applications running on it....
Author: neilhut Date: 02/26/2008
5 STAR review of Windows Server
There have been a number of reviews of Windows Server 2008 since we made the RTM 3 weeks ago...
Author: neilhut Date: 02/25/2008
Dilbert Stand aside - Enter the Hero's Happen Here Comic STRIP
As part of the Windows Server 2008 launch wave, its seems that we are moving into the comic...
Author: neilhut Date: 02/22/2008
Developing Games for ZUNE - NOW YOU CAN
How cool is this? The XNA Community Games Platform team has just announced the ability to deploy...
Author: neilhut Date: 02/20/2008
Windows Server 2008 Performance Optimization
Adam in the team met with Bill Karagounis who is responsible for the performance enhancements in...
Author: neilhut Date: 02/20/2008
Application Considerations When Upgrading to Windows Server 2008
So how do servers upgrade themselves to Windows Server 2008, and how does data, that is not part of...
Author: neilhut Date: 02/19/2008