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My notes from Day 2 at the Microsoft Professional Developers conference in Los Angeles on November 18, 2009. 8:30 - Steven Sinofsky takes the stage! Kicking it off talking about Windows 7 Video time – “Why we share your pain”…Funny! Explaining how Microsoft uses Windows 7 Telemetry to learn more about...

Day 1 at the BizSpark Incubation Week was a great kickoff, but now the true fun begins!  I’ve decided to try something new and make today’s post and active log of our actions through out the day.  (We’ll see how good that works).  All times are US Eastern Standard Times 6:20 a.m – Wake...

Today I spent several hours in Reston, Virginia at the Microsoft office for the BizSpark Incubation Week focused on Windows 7. BizSpark is a Microsoft program to help Startups build their software based application or service. One of the chief reasons for doing this is enabling those startups to leverage...

As it stands today, there is a large and growing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market with vendors spread throughout the software and hardware spectrum.  Unfortunately, many enterprises have either not done or heard of VDI or their in perpetual piloting.  My theory isn’t that the benefits...

This is SWEET news!  Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is now Released To Manufacturing (RTM).  This means that Microsoft is done with the code, sending it to various Original Equipment Manufactures (OEM) such as Dell, HP, and IBM. Everything else for Windows 7 will be done via patches and...

This document provides details on a service offering focused on Windows 7 planning, pilot, and deployment with Agramont Services.

Disclaimer: While there are many products and technologies for VDI, including VMWare and Citrix, I’ll stay focused on using all Microsoft products…for now. For the past few years I’ve been talking to many customers about the benefits of Virtualization. Not just for servers using Microsoft Hyper-V, but...