It;s June seven, Day one of Microsoft;s TechEd conference in New Orleans. I;m right here together with 10,
Microsoft Office 2007 Key,500 or so others to get updates on Microsoft;s IT goods and companies.The very first bit of news with the day, through my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, is the fact that the beta of
Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 Company Pack (SP) one is coming in July. (No phrase on once the ultimate is due out; the rumor has long been circulating that it will be just before the end of this calendar yr.)Microsoft officials shared some initial info on SP1 a few months ago. They stated about the customer there will probably be no new features, just bug fixes and security updates rolled up into a single deliverable. About the server facet, still, there will be two new attributes added to SP1: A brand new graphics acceleration platform, known as RemoteFX, and an add-on to Hyper-V.RemoteFX is determined by desktop-remoting technologies that Microsoft obtained in 2008 when it acquired Calista Technologies. The new addition to Hyper-V which will dynamically regulate memory of the guest virtual machine on need.Microsoft also is rolling out currently a beta of Exchange Server 2010 SP1. Microsoft officials said back in April to anticipate this beta around TechEd and the final to be launched before the finish of this year.New features/functionality on tap for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 include archiving and discovery updates, Outlook Web App enhancements, mobile user and management improvements and “some highly sought right after extra UI for management duties,
Office 2007 Professional,” the Exchange staff has said.Microsoft also has released the final version of its Windows Server AppFabric technologies and has produced it on the market for download. (Microsoft released a near-final release candidate of Windows Server AppFabric in May possibly.)Windows Server AppFabric may be the new title for numerous Windows infrastructure components,
Office Professional Plus 2010, such as the “Dublin” app server and “Velocity” caching technology. Microsoft is touting Windows Server AppFabric as supplying elasticity and high availability for Web programs, also as delivering more development and management of on-premises Windows apps. Windows Server AppFabric needs Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 and will likely be cost-free to consumers with Regular and Enterprise editions of those products.Update: Other tidbits from TechEd Day 1:* Microsoft has up-to-date the Windows Azure software program development kit (SDK),
Office 2007, incorporating .Net Framework four, Visual Studio 2010 (RTM version) support and IntelliTrace support.* Microsoft mentioned it'll be providing spatial information support and accessibility to 50 GB of SQL Azure database. There;s a brand new public preview of the SQL Azure Data Sync Company, a tool for managing how information is distributed and synced across several datacenters. Microsoft also is working on SQL Server Web Manager,
Windows 7 Serial, a tool for developing, deploying and managing cloud apps.* Microsoft has produced accessible to developers the Bing Map App programming interface to developers through the Bing Mapp App Software program Improvement Kit (SDK). Developers who compose apps utilizing that SDK is going to be ready to submit them for achievable inclusion in Microsoft;s Bing Maps app ##############.