| Volume 11, Issue 6: March 25, 2009 | Note from the Editor | | | Greetings, and Welcome to TechNet Flash. With the announcement last week of the availability of Internet Explorer 8, there's one question you need to ask yourself: Is my Web site ready? To that end, we've pulled together a few key resources: There's also a great third-party IE8 compatibility wizard from ArtinSoft, which automatically upgrades a Web site to render correctly in IE8 without breaking compatibility in older browsers. And for testing Web sites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista, get the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images. Speaking of preparation, your developers should check out the Silverlight 3 beta, a preview release which introduces more than 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser, dramatic video performance and quality improvements, and features that radically improve developer productivity. Note that this is a developer release, meaning there is no "go-live" licensing and the end-user runtime is not available. The tools available in this release are intended for software developers only. Yes Virginia, There Is an Upgrade Path Still think there isn't an upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7? Check out the TechNet Edge video on Migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta. Find out how you can have a fresh install of Window 7, with all your XP files and settings, completed in 30 minutes. Tip-o'-the-DayTechNet Magazine continues its month of daily Exchange Server 2007 tips. Here are some of the Exchange Server tips you'll find on the TechNet Magazine site: Mitch Irsfeld
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In this webcast, we provide an overview of the new Cluster Shared Volumes code-name "Centipede" failover clustering feature in the Windows Server 2008 R2 code-name "Windows Server 7" operating system. |
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