Quickies

• Microsoft did something good today. Today’s press release announcing the new and updated licensing schemes for server products running in virtualized environments brings them right back into touch with their customers and with their own Hyper-V virtualization technology they frankly had no choice….

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• I’ve been running Windows Server 2008 as my main OS for my laptop or a while now and I’m still very happy with it….

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• A long time ago I submitted my photoblog site to Coolphotoblogs and subsequently forgot about it. Today I got an email telling me that the site had been approved for listing. Very cool, and I’m anxious to see what kind of rating the site gets. Please check out Opticalpork and …

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• The Habari team has just released version 0.4, which incorporates over 230 code changes and quite a few very nice improvements since the last release. For more details, check out the release notes and commit log.
  
  Hopefully this is the last Developer Review release, before Habari enters official beta status.
  

• VMware is excited to announce the acquisition of Thinstall, a complementary virtualization solution provider.

  Thats pretty interesting indeed and should complement the VMWare VDI initiative nicely. Read the whole press release, and the Whats New/Thinstall page on vmware.com. There doesn’t seem to be much news regarding how VMware will …

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