Free Virtualization July 12, 2006
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I am not sure whether the virtualization squeezes itself into the IT mainstream yet. But I know that you could get it for free if you are thinking of testing the water.
VMware released the final version of its VMware Server virtualization product this week. VMware started the beta testing of its free VMware Server in Feb and finally released the final verion.
Interestingly enough, Microsoft has released an update to Virtual PC 2004 SP1 and is also free of charge right now. Microsoft also promised to free Virtual PC 2007 next year to support Vista. Microsoft already release Virtual Server 2005 R2 as a free download.
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FYI: It IS a feature which you don’t find in Firefox July 6, 2006
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There is a interesting article on ZDNet Australia: Windows shortcut ‘trick’ is a feature: Microsoft.
The article suggested that it was a security hole to run an executable throught IE. Microsoft said that it is a feature!
That is right! It is a feature, it is a unique feature of IE which you don’t find it in other browser. And
we’ve been using it in our company.
Heard of .Net’s no touch deployment? This feature of IE gave us the
ability of hosting our executalbe apps on server. No installation on clients,
just open IE then type in the path to .exe. The feature saved us time to go around and install apps on client computers. Best of all, everytime we revised the apps, such as fixed bugs, all we need to do is just recompile the apps on the server. That is it! Next time when the user tries to run it, it will automatically refresh with the latest version. I just love it.
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