Archives for April 2005

The long awaited virtualization product is finally available on VMware site: VMware Workstation 5. I have succesfully updated my license form 4.5 to 5 for free and I am currently downloading it. I tried the beta of the 5 version with the possibility to import Microsoft Virtual PC and was surprised that it worked so well. Now to say which one is faster... I would say that it is difficult to see differences in speed, at least with my Visual Studio 2005 tests.

What can you expect from the Beta Experience?

Microsoft completes Groove Networks acquisition. "Ozzie, the creator of IBM's Lotus Notes software, becomes a chief technical officer (CTO) of Microsoft, reporting to Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates." You also might read an interesting Garner interview of Ray Ozzie.

Without SP1. I had an Issue with my W2k3 server after SP1 installation, I could not fix it, so I went back with booting on the installation DVD, choosing to install Windows 2003 than repair the existing installation, and then finally I had to install the 35 patches. And now it is working again :-).