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8/30/2007
Microsoft Delays Windows Server Until Early 2008
You'll have to wait a little longer for Windows Server 2008. Microsoft is delaying the release to manufacturing of the server operating system from the end of the year until sometime in the first quarter of 2008, the company announced Wednesday.
Windows Server 2008 is now in Beta 3 and feature complete, but Microsoft is delaying it because "it needs a little more time to bake," according to Windows Server program manager Alex Hinrichs, who is quoted in the announcement on Microsoft's Windows Server blog. There's no indication if the added "baking" time will help push forward the release of Windows Server's upcoming virtualization technology, Viridian, which had also been delayed -- and also announced on a company blog.
8/30/2007
Microsoft Readies PerformancePoint Server
Microsoft will take the wraps off its long-awaited PerformancePoint Server on Sept. 19, a move that's likely to expand the company's already considerable presence in the business intelligence software market.
PerformancePoint, officially Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, is Microsoft's entry in the rapidly growing market for performance management applications used for monitoring, analyzing and planning business activities. Traditional business intelligence software vendors Business Objects and Cognos already compete in this space while Oracle and SAP, through their recent acquisitions of Hyperion Solutions and OutlookSoft, respectively, are also expanding into performance management.
8/30/2007
Microsoft pulls plug on security patch project
AutoPatcher, a four-year-old project to distribute Microsoft patches and other updates to software that runs on Windows, has shut down because of a Microsoft request.
"Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate takedown of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history," said project manager Antonis Kaladis in a post Wednesday. "As much as we disagree, we can do very little, and ... we took the download page down."
8/30/2007
MS adds to framework to simplify development
Looking to assist developers in building business applications, Microsoft published a second beta version of ADO.Net Entity Framework this week and a community technology preview of tools to work with the framework.
The goal of the ADO.Net Entity Framework is to eliminate the impedance mismatch between data models and languages, saving developers from having to deal with these. An example of such a mismatch is objects and relational stores.
Automation of complex processes is critical to the framework.
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