12 Tenets to Promote Competition Announced- July 20, 2006 Over here, we just put out a press release about what we will do to allow for more competition within the Windows ecosystem. The words point to some potentially exciting developments. My curiosity is piqued in that I'd like to find out how much can be replaced from the OS. Dropping in a new browser or media player isn't too tough-- that problem has a well understood solution. I'm more curious about how much one can replace. I know that more than a few research types would like to be able to...http://blogs.msdn.com/scottseely/archive/2006/07/20/672817.aspx Using Virtual Machines- July 20, 2006 I've found an interesting way to interact with a Virtual Server 2005 R2 Virtual Machine in a fairly performant way: through Terminal ServerRemote Desktop Connectionmstsc. If you are a person with access to an MSDN subscription, install Windows Server 2003 on a machine. Then, go out to the web (http:www.microsoft.comwindowsserversystemvirtualserverdefault.mspx) and install the free Virtual Server 2005 R2 on that Server box. Once the virtual machine is all setup, enable remote desktop connection..http://blogs.msdn.com/scottseely/archive/2006/07/19/672018.aspx |