Windows Server 7 2008 R2 Ok, cobbling together everything that's been posted following Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC), here's what I think the deal is:"Windows 7" is being used internally at Microsoft to refer to both the client and server codebase. While the two obviously have different functionality, they are born of the same base

Don’t you make my brown eyes… Azure. Microsoft has announced "Windows Azure," their cloud computing platform. Essentially, if I'm reading this right, Azure is a specialized version of Windows that's designed for Internet-level performance. You don't buy it. It lives in Microsoft data centers. Developers write Azure apps using Visual Studio... or Eclipse, or Python, or PHP,

Mac interop: Managing Windows from a Mac The question: Is it possible to manage my Windows servers from a Mac client? The answer: Of course. And it's easy. It's this amazing new remoting technology called Microsoft Remote Desktop. Maybe you've heard of it. There's a Mac client. It's free. It works just like the Windows client. Done.

Mac Interop: Spanning Tree Protocols A comment in an earlier blog post called my attention to Spanning Tree Protocols (STP)s, and how they can create issues for Macs. Well... for older Macs. Very old Macs, in fact. Here's the deal: This article details Apple's thoughts on STP. The article gives a good overview of what

Mac Interop: Printing Next up in the Mac Interop series: Printing. Now, I'm assuming that what you really want to do is get your Mac machines printing to existing network printers, rather than sharing a Mac-attached printer. You can do either, but the former is definitely more enterprise-ish. So let's dive in. The