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Essential Tool for the Job - Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Windows Vista (RTM Announcement)

RTM Announcement - Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 Hello, It's been a few months since I last blogged about the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 - formerly known as WVHA or Windows Vista Hardware Assessment. Today, I'd like...


Update: Windows Optimized Desktop for the Enterprise

I'm relaying the following article on behalf of my colleague Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise. We've been talking with a lot of organizations about what they need most from an optimized desktop experience...


Microsoft takes steps to “Integrate IT” at the Microsoft Management Summit

I'm relaying the following article on behalf of my colleague Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise. During Virtualization Briefing Day in January, Shanen posted to give you background on what we're doing to...



Announcing Microsoft Assessment and Planning Beta Refresh for Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008

Introducing Microsoft Assessment and Planning 3.0 For those of you who are considering the migration of your desktop and server infrastructure to Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 , we have good news for you! As we've announced at TechEd IT Forum...


Microsoft Virtualization Day: Helping IT professionals do more with less

I'm relaying the following article on behalf of my colleague Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise. It's the first in a series of posts from Shanen exploring what we're doing to make it simpler and easier to...


Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Getting A Major Facelift: Tool Expansion Announced at IT Forum 2007

Hi all! It's been a little bit over 2 months since my last blog on the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 (WVHA) release back in August. You may wonder what our dev team is up to. Well, aside from getting the much needed rest, we have been busy working...


“Fireside Chat” with Heartland Technology Solutions at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007

Hi all, For those of you who missed some of the actions and announcements at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference regarding key technologies and tools including SoftGrid, Windows Partner Solutions, Windows Vista Hardware Assessment and Windows Business...


Flexible Desktop Computing White Paper Released

Hi folks, for the past couple of months we have been working on a white paper that discusses the variety of both established and emerging desktop deployment technologies in the industry today. For most organizations rich clients have been proven to be...


TechEd 2007 Day Two: Take a Virtual Test Drive of Windows Vista

Hi guys I'm here at Day 2 of Tech-Ed and there is some pretty exciting stuff around me. This is my first post so allow me to introduce myself. My name is David Kim and I am currently an associate product manager in Windows Client and lately I have been...


Running Virtual PC 2007 on Windows Vista

Anyone who has tried Virtual PC 2004 on Windows Vista knows that the experience can leave something to be desired. But today, from the hard working folks on the Virtual PC Team, we have Virtual PC 2007. Virtual PC 2007 was optimized for using Windows...


Virtual PC 2007 Beta: Free and Available Now

Alex Heaton has some news to share with Virtual PC 2007 beta that was released today. In his own words.... Virtual PC 2007 Beta is now available as a free download from connect.microsoft.com . Virtual PC 2007 is optimized to work well for Windows Vista...