Linux
Will Microsoft do a Linux?
The ever-so-opinionated John Dvorak in PC Mag: People are always looking for the be-all-end-all super-perfect Linux. It will never happen until Microsoft does Linux. Oops.…
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Community
Happy Birthday OWA: Outlook Web Access Turns 10!
Outlook Web Access, the web-based interface for accessing Exchange, turns 10 today! Released on May 23, 1997, as part of Exchange 5.0, OWA went by…
Microsoft
Can The Blue Monster Change Microsoft?
Apparently, this cartoon created by Hugh MacLeod of GapingVoid.com is getting traction amongst Microsofties, and outside Microsoft. Microsoft’s Steve Clayton explains what it is in…
Microsoft
Hilf: Don’t look at Fortune magazine as the manifestation of Microsoft strategy
In an exclusive interview to InfoWorld magazine, Microsoft’s Bill Hilf clears up the air [read previous article – “Bill Hilf: Free Software Movement Is Dead“]…
Exchange 2007
CAS In DMZ Redux: Time For an OWA Appliance?
The number of times I continue to field this question is amazing – Can the Client Access Server be located in the perimeter (DMZ) network?…
Microsoft
Bill Hilf: Free Software Movement Is Dead
This may add a lot of fuel to the platforms (Windows v/s Open Source and Almost Open Source But Never Free) debate, and will certainly…
News
‘Crapware’-free: Longhorn Server does not include useless desktop apps
We’ve been hearing a lot about ‘crapware‘ apps installed by hardware vendors on desktops and laptops – apps like AOL (or other ISP) software, myriad…
Anti-spam
Exchange Hosted Services is not hosted Exchange
Like many folks out there, I believed – wrongly so, that Exchange Hosted Services is hosted Exchange, and competes with Microsoft/Exchange’s model of selling Exchange…
Exchange Server
Drumroll: MAPI is now Outlook Exchange Transport Protocol
Messaging Application Programming Interface – or MAPI, the equally loved (overstatement?) and hated protocol used by Microsoft Outlook to communicate with Microsoft Exchange Server, just…
Exchange 2007
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Beta 1 available to subscribers
Microsoft has released Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta1 to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Both the 32-bit (for test/lab use) and 64-bit versions are available on…