Archive for February, 2008

Top 10 New Features of Windows Server 2008

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

As Windows 2008 is now officially released ( and people suspect that the release of Vista SP1 is similar to the codebase of Windows Server 2008 ), it would be nice recap the top new features which are making its way to us. I found this nice article which introduces to some of the fantastic changes coming with Windows Server 2008. I am really looking forward to a GUI less set of servers running on a dual core machine and providing multiple services. Oh, and the self healing NTFS sounds cool. Check out all the other features and I am sure you would be dying to get your hands on the new system.


Now I am off to find out more about Server Core. It is a really fantastic concept if it lives up to it’s promise. It will definitely ease the burden on existing servers, boost performance, and decrease power consumption and cooling needs. One Quad – Eight core servers, lots of ram and server core to replace 2-3 existing servers, would be fantastic. From a developers point of view, if I can get AD, SQL Server, DNS and Mail working from a GUI Less Server Core VM installation, using under 512 MB of Ram, that would be just fantastic. All I need is to connect via a admin GUI to the Server Core machine and configure the services. Would be even fantastic if all servers ( SharePoint, Office Servers, Biztalk etc ), are enabled to run via a GUI less server in the future. This would make it phenomenal. It would take away the pain of developing on a laptop.

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Article on Microsoft’s proposed offer to Yahoo!

Friday, February 1st, 2008

SearchEngineLand has a nice write up about this proposed acquisition. It discusses the event in detail and portrays a nice picture of what is going on and why. Definitely worth a read.


There are also live blogged notes from the Microsoft conference call for the Yahoo! bid at 8:30.

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Microsoft’s offer letter to Yahoo!

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Steve Ballmer’s letter to the board of Yahoo! is available for us to read at the Microsoft Presspass site. Definitely worth a read. I skipped the financial figures, and tried to find out what is Microsoft looking after with this acquisition. Search dominance, online advertising market share, or just an increase in long term profits by bringing Yahoo! financial figures in it’s Balance Sheet.


We keep hearing things about Microsoft and Yahoo acquiring various firms related to Search, Advertising and Social Networking fields. Had never gussed that Microsoft will make a bid to get one competitor completely out of the way by acquiring it.

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Microsoft proposes to Yahoo!

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Definitely one of the biggest news I have seen in my career. Microsoft today proposed to acquire Yahoo! for $31 per share. That puts the value of Yahoo! at approximately $44.6 billion.


Financials apart, this will have a BIG effect on the search and online advertising landscape. Combined together, it will become a bigger and meaner rival to Google, and we can definitely see exciting things happening in the search and online advertising space. One thing is for sure. Exciting things ahead in the online advertising front. I guess it is time I try out some ad’s myself and see for myself if they are worth $44.6 billion.


Also two of the biggest email platforms Hotmail and Yahoo Mail will be combining if this acquisition goes ahead. Flickr will also fall into Microsoft’s lap. I am sure there are going to be lots of rampifications to this. More than I can think of. Do let us know if you can think of any significant change this will bring to the industry.

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