Windows 7 price hike may drive Linux adoption; Lookout for holographic meetings

Microsoft Alert NetworkWorld.com | Software Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. Forrester Research: Lowering WAN Costs Improve your WAN optimization RoI and dramatically lower costs with Cisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platform. Find out how in this Live Webcast, "The Total Economic Impact of Cisco WAAS Multi-Company Analysis." This live event is scheduled for Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT. Register for this Live Webcast Spotlight Story This is Network World's Microsoft Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Microsoft Subnet, your daily source for Microsoft news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more. Windows 7 price hike may drive Linux adoption With disbelief, blogger Mitchell Ashley reports on Microsoft's plans to raise prices for Windows 7. "Is Microsoft crazy? Are they ready to undo all the good work of transparently and slowly rolling out Windows 7 in their very public beta and RC releases? .... Linux may not be winning over desktops as rapidly as the faithful would prefer, but if anything, a price increase will cause many IT organizations to give their Windows 7 upgrade plans a second look. It's a great reminder of what IT managers (and CFOs) hate about the Microsoft licensing treadmill; rising costs, forced upgrades, and more licensing fees at every turn." Related News: More top picks from the week: Holographic meetings, gestures as mouse clicks and the Microsoft magic wand Windows 7 on track to go to PC manufacturers in August Windows 7 app compatibility issues? Here's guidance from Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 ... Groove's new name Microsoft "Dublin" to get visualization tool Is interoperability the right Microsoft open source strategy? From our bloggers: Ron Barrett: A Better Windows World An invitation does not always mean you're invited Last Wednesday I received an invitation to a seminar and luncheon on Unified Communications. Since I have spent quite a bit of time over the last two years writing, speaking and implementing Unified Communications solutions (mostly OSC 2007), I thought it would be cool to attend. But after I filled out the laborious online forms I was told, "We cannot confirm your registration at this time.” Ever happened to you? Mitchell Ashley: Converging on Microsoft Top 5 things needed in Office 2010 Microsoft Office 2010 is to go into Technical Preview this July. I’m not sure we really need more stuff in Office, frankly we probably need a lot less and to have the features available actually work. Tyson Kopczynski: Hidden Microsoft Tearing apart the Certificate Lifecycle Manager 2007 database Over the past couple of months I have been working a lot with CLM 2007. During this time, I wrote a bunch of custom reports, built a notifications module, and tweaked a number of other things to get CLM kinda of the way it should have been out of the box. Glenn Weadock: Windows Server 2008 The right-click metaphor So I’m working away on a Server 2008 box yesterday and fire up the DNS console, and I’m reminded of a bug that’s been hanging around this console since, ummm, the year 2000. When you right-click a node in the navigation pane of the console, you sometimes don’t see the correct context menu. Brian Egler: SQL Server Strategies More on SQL Server Server Time Dimensions… Server time dimensions are where a time dimension table is generated automatically on the Analysis Server instead of having to be created manually in the data warehouse. Well, what if you want the automatic generation but you still want the table to be part of the data warehouse? Enter SQL Server 2008. Susan Hanley: Essential SharePoint To have a corporate blog or not to blog … revisited I first wrote about the topic of whether corporate executives should have an internal blog back in February of 2007.  I wish I’d seen the Dilbert cartoon on Debbie Weil's blog back then... It makes my point pretty succinctly: to be useful, an executive blog needs to be authentic. Kerrie Meyler: Managing Microsoft Look out, Microsoft - the DOJ may have you in its sights The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked to extend the antitrust agreement against Microsoft by at least 18 months (May 2011), to give the company enough time to fix problems in technical documentation. Ross Mistry: Microsoft Backoffice Installing SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering on Windows Server 2008 Recently fellow SQL Server MVPs and DBAs have asked me for resources on how to install a SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster from a Windows Server 2008 perspective.  Definitely, failover clustering is a hot topic within the SQL community Giveaways and goodies: 1) A Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. 2) Fifteen copies of the training video SQL Server Fundamentals for the Accidental DBA by Eric Johnson (a $69.99 value). Deadline is May 31, 2009. Entry forms can be found on the Microsoft Subnet home page. Check out Microsoft Subnet’s library for free chapters. Evolution of Ethernet From 3Mbps over shared coax to 40/100Gbps over fiber…and beyond. Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition iPhone enthusiasts from around the Web offer their visions for the next-gen iPhone. Sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. 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