Windows PowerShell, which reminds me of the old days of RedHat 5.x which I was into Linux firm deeply coding bash, cpp and things like that, is out for Windows Vista. I am willing to see the Longhorn Server with PowerShell so that it makes it easier, specially for System Administrators scripting easier rather than using Dos Command Prompt & VBScript, what we are doing right now on our Windows Server platforms.

Resolutions Enterprise Ltd. has published a nice article on making the Exchange 2007 migration decision easier. If you are into an enterprise, go for it!

It looks as Google, is going to change the VoIP industry forever competing with Telcos. Read More . . .

There were rumors of the Vista as the last OS from Microsoft and myself was thinking somehow the same, not exactly but a big change... But read PC World's interview with Steve Ballmer on the feature of Windows.

"If you want to charge somebody $0.10 or $1 a month, that will just be a click...you won't have to manage some funny thing or pay some big credit charge, where half of it goes to the clearing," Gates said.

Web 2.0 is getting into the scene step by step, Web 3.0 got the meaning some time ago and now... Web 4.0!

As you all have noticed, Atlas... err, Microsoft AJAX v1.0 released lastly this week. But I second Michael Schwarz in terms of AJAX security.

SaaS game is growing up...Microsoft planned data center is even bigger than the current The Planet ones which is 147,000 square feet in six facilities.
Star-Telegram: "SAN ANTONIO - Microsoft today announced plans to build a 550 (M) million dollar data center in northwest San Antonio. The site will house Microsoft's growing online services. The 400,000-square-foot facility will be the software giant's first major data center in Texas. The complex will house tens of thousands of computers for delivery of products like Microsoft's Windows Live services, which include everything from instant messaging to mail."

The Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) is best-practice guidance for desktop deployment. BDD is targeted at companies that want to reduce deployment time, effort, and cost by increasing the level of automation. It allows administrators to deploy desktops with Zero Touch and Lite Touch interaction at the target PCs. This solution also helps organizations move to a managed environment with standardized desktop images. Read More . . .

It looks as Microsoft and Nortel came together for Unified Messaging as of Innovative Communications Alliance. Assume integration of Exchange Server 2007, Office Communicator 2007 and Nortel PBX. Too costy I guess but pretty awesome.

The enterprise VoIP market are awaiting for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 as Microsoft's path to PBX. Read VoIP News article on it.

'Titan' supporting SaaS deployment is on the way...

You all should have heard of Mac vs. Linksys iPhone. In my opinion the one from Linksys is much more promissing as I hope we one day have VoIP, Skype (Yahoo!) and GSM in one device. Buy Linksys iPhone via VoIP Supply.

Hmm, looks as a right solution for Cisco I guess.

"Though the final decision about whether to adopt VoIP may involve many different issues, the first question that’s usually asked is whether or not the move will save your company money.
The answer? Yes, it will. Maybe."
Read More . . .

The last time I tried writing in Persian for Iranian community was in IranASP.NET blog, and it looks as Sasan Yeganegi is writing again after his nice website, iranasp.net, gone for whatever reason. Wish him success. Via Hamed.

What’s ahead? VoIP influencers predict consolidation, buyouts, SIP phones and other surprises.

Robert Scoble: "Maryam interviews Sanaz Ahari about what it's like to work as a program manager of Microsoft's Live.com team. She is responsible for the Live.com home page, which is a pretty big shoes for anyone to fill."
Watch it here.
I am really happy to see Maryam has interviewed her... As an Iranian...

I really can't understand why some people are eager installing beta version of whatever they see, specially here in Iran. We were suffering a lot of troubles some days ago on a production server since the system administrator simply installed a beta version of a server software which the bugs were known but were declined by the developers of it. Specially .NET applications are huge fan of consuming CPU & RAM and making the production server stops functioning properly. PLEASE do not install the beta version in a production server, just for your testing environment. That's why it is called 'BETA'.
Wikipedia:
"A beta version or beta release usually represents the first version of a computer program that implements all features in the initial requirements analysis. It is likely to be useful for internal demonstrations and previews to select customers, but unstable and not yet ready for release."

Microsoft Office Live provides small businesses and information workers with a new set of Internet-based services for growing and managing their business online. For Microsoft partners, it represents an opportunity to leverage existing skills and expertise to tap into a $14 billion small business software market and access over 3 million U.S. small businesses. Read More . . .