Development for Essential Business Server, MS’s mid-market server software bundle, has been halted. Microsoft is placing all bets on cloud computing for the m0re economically conscious IT markets. EBS bundled Server 2008, Exchange 2007, and server management tools together in one package. It will be discontinued as of the 30/06/2010.
Microsoft has said that the decision [...]

With the growing trend for desktop and application vitalization, the alternative seems all too often to get over looked. Thin-clients, all be it and “old” solution, is still a good way to deliver software to resource-constrained machines.
MS has repackaged their Windows Terminal Services. Aimed at students, it offers a thin-client platform on Server 2008 R2. [...]

Virtualization is a great buzzword at the moment and has been for a whie now. Whilst many of us know what it is and even how it might be able to help us out in terms of consolidation, cost vs capacity, IT support and of course the age old justification process for when we are buying new kit on which to run these systems.

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is finally here. The second revision of Microsofts FREE Hypervisor is available for download from the Microsoft Site now.

Windows XP mode, a quick overview of what it is and what it can do.