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Thursday 30 April 2009

Microsoft's Products in 2010

Microsoft started its branding with new best-selling products like Exchange Server 2010 beta.

Most of forthcoming 2010 editions includes MS Office, Exchange and SharePoint 2010 are positioned as Unified Communications (UC) solutions., Office Web applications, Project and Visio.

These projects can be expected in the first half of 2010., although Exchange Server 2010 will arriage in second half of 2009.

Office 2010 will be in both 32-bit & 64-bit. Exchange server will only be in 64-bit product.

Another Office tidbit associated with 2010 branding is MOSS, will be losing its "O".

Microsoft seeks help for new OS: Windows 8

Surprised...?
Yes. It's true. It's next version of Windows 7.
MS looking to fill jobs associated with Windows 8, its next OS next to the current Windows 7 beta.
Two jobs postings have been spotted, published by CodeNameWindows blog last week and by others on web.
"For the upcoming Version of Windows, new critical features are being wored on including cluster support for one way replication" the job post reads.

The core engine is also being reworked to provide dramatic performance improvements.

The reference to "file access in branch offices" sounds a lot like Microsoft's upcoming BranchCache technology.

Windows 7 Enterprise edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 both will contain BranchCache, which is designed to improve application responsiveness across organization's branch offices via a wide area network connection.

Job responsibility of Windows 8 job posting defines, i. Put on customer/design critique hat as we plan our next version file server mgmt experience., ii. participatin in architectural design and development, testing for managing the Next Gen file server.

MS may start releasing Windows 7 RC in may of this year.

Wednesday 8 April 2009

Microsoft Gazelle

Microsoft Gazelle
Last week, Microsoft Research released an interesting paper about a web browser, Gazelle, which acts like an OS with the browser kernel specifically securing its resources and sharing across web sites.

The Idea behind Gazelle is to create a browser that is more secure for the current typical dynamic web pages that we find on web. Gazelle is different as no existing browsers, including new architectures, haveing a multi-principal operating system constructed providing the browser-based OS control, exclusively, to mange the protection of all system resources.

Gazelle's security model is centered around protected principals from one another by seperating their respective resources into hardware-isolated protection domains. Any sharing between two different principals must be explicit using cross-principal communication(or IPC) mediated by Browser Kernel.

More details @ Microsoft's Gazelle