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21 August 2009 - Posts

Living with Windows 7: Goodies 2

As previously mentioned I have lived with Beta and RC before arriving at Release. Downside has been the re-builds. The upside and this is Goodie #2 is the ability to use VHD’s mounted as ‘real’ hard drives has been a saviour! I have setup a number of
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Living with Windows 7: Goodies 1

I’ve been living with Windows 7 for sometime – through Beta, RC and now Release (Thanks to MSDN). I have to admit it is a much better option than Vista. Furthermore I’m now running the 64 bit with now driver issues. Now my setup is not your standard run
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Microsoft rolls out SQL Azure Database preview

The community technology preview (CTP) was made available on Tuesday, along with a preview of a SQL Server driver for building PHP applications for the Azure platform. The Azure Services Platform, first announced at a developer conference last year,
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BizTalk: Licensing Standard Edition on multi-cpu box

BizTalk Server 2009 standard edition has a two CPU limit on it so you would think even if it was on a box with four CPU’s you’d only need two licenses. Not so you’d need four!! Read here a quote from the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 pricing and licensing
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