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Windows 7 BETA Released

Posted by flexiblecomputing on January 11, 2009

Windows 7 BETA is now available to MSDN or TechNet subscribers.

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Cloud Computing Comes to Plymouth?

Posted by flexiblecomputing on November 20, 2008

There is now an 80 acre business park next to a brand new power station in Plymouth, providing 885 megawatts. There are rumours that a very large cloud computing company is considering building a mega data centre in the area.

Power Station: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/5085972.stm

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Active Directory Cloud Connector

Posted by flexiblecomputing on November 3, 2008

Microsoft has released the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of their Services Connect.

a new Windows Server® component that seamlessly connects Active Directory users to a suite of Live services and Microsoft Online Services. After Microsoft Services Connector is installed, users are able to log into their Active Directory account and be given seamless access to Microsoft services as if those services were hosted on your organization’s own network”

So …. who has more users, Microsoft Active Directory, or Google?

https://connect.microsoft.com/servicesconnector

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