Vineyard virtualizes with Microsoft in carbon neutral plan Monte Vibiano, a wine and olive oil producer in Italy, is using Microsoft virtualization technology in a bid to help it become carbon neutral. Microsoft to push IE8 at businesses next month Microsoft will begin pushing Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to enterprises next month via Windows Server Update Services, the company said this week. Firefox stays in the game with Firefox 3.5 Firefox released its 3.5 version for download today, and so far it seems to be a pretty good release with some new additions and some catch-up features. Probably the biggest change is Firefox 3.5's use of the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. 5 features IE will likely crib from Firefox 3.5 Here are five Firefox 3.5 features that Microsoft may lift for its next Internet Explorer launch. Acronymania Nervosa Microsoft Subnet blogger Glynn Weadock reports: "So I'm dutifully studying up on Server 2008 R2 and reading on Microsoft's website about how Terminal Services is so good now, that we really can't call it Terminal Services anymore. In fact, we need at least three new names to describe it. Trouble is, they all seem to mean the same thing." Microsoft to open two mall-sized data centers Microsoft on Monday said it is about to flip the switch on what will eventually be more than 1 million square feet of data center space in two facilities, one in Chicago, the other in Dublin, Ireland. A year after Windows XP's death, users keep it alive A year ago today, Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP, no longer selling new copies in most venues. The better Office alternative: SoftMaker Office bests OpenOffice.org In the kingdom of business productivity, Microsoft Office reigns supreme. For would-be Office competitors, to even consider taking on the king of the hill requires that you first master the lingua franca of the Office file formats -- a task that's a lot trickier than it sounds. Why is Microsoft Office so hard to kill? It's the question that vexes free open source software advocates and commercial competitors around the globe: Why is Microsoft Office so difficult to dislodge from its perch atop the IT heap? Is it the exclusive bundling deals? The deep Software Assurance entrenchment? Steve Ballmer's backroom deal with the devil? July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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