A few days back, I blogged about the performance issues I’d experienced with Microsoft’s virtualisation products. John Howard’s blog reports that Microsoft knowledge base article 903748 was released today, featuring a whole load of performance tips for Virtual Server 2005.
Microsoft acquires FrontBridge
Back in March, I wrote about some new e-mail message continuity services from FrontBridge. Well, according to a press release just received from Microsoft, FrontBridge is about to become Microsoft’s latest acquisition as it steps up its systems management and security capabilities. With the purchase of Giant Company (anti-spyware), Sybari (anti-virus) and now FrontBridge (anti-spam and message continuity), Microsoft’s security arsenal is starting to look good. It will be interesting to see how these purchases shape up and whether they are integrated into Windows, retained on an application service provider (ASP) basis, or developed into one or more new products, perhaps as part of the System Center family, or (in the case of FrontBridge) maybe we will see some of the new technology integrated into Exchange 12?
Find out what the moon is made of using Google maps
Today is the 36th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings (thought by some to be a hoax, and by others to be a fantastic scientific achievement on the part of mankind). To celebrate this, Google has added some NASA imaging to Google Maps and if you zoom in really close, you can really see what the moon is made of! The Google Moon FAQ has more details of Google’s plans for expanding Internet search features beyond the boundaries of planet earth!