It;s June seven, Day 1 of Microsoft;s TechEd conference in New Orleans. I;m right here along with 10,500 or so others to obtain updates on Microsoft;s IT goods and companies.The very first bit of news of the day, by way of my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, is that the beta of Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack (SP) 1 is coming in July. (No word on once the ultimate is because of out; the rumor has been circulating that it will be before the finish of this calendar year.)Microsoft officials shared some first info on SP1 a couple months in the past. They said around the consumer there is going to be no new features,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, just bug fixes and safety updates rolled up right into a single deliverable. Around the server aspect, having said that,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, there will be two new functions added to SP1: A new graphics acceleration platform, referred to as RemoteFX,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, and an add-on to Hyper-V.RemoteFX is depending on desktop-remoting technologies that Microsoft obtained in 2008 when it acquired Calista Technologies. The new addition to Hyper-V that can dynamically regulate memory of the visitor virtual machine on need.Microsoft also is rolling out these days a beta of Exchange Server 2010 SP1. Microsoft officials mentioned back again in April to expect this beta about TechEd plus the ultimate to get released before the end of this year.New features/functionality on tap for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 contain archiving and discovery updates, Outlook Web App enhancements, mobile user and management improvements and “some extremely sought after additional UI for management tasks,” the Exchange team has mentioned.Microsoft also has launched the final version of its Windows Server AppFabric technology and has made it on the market for download. (Microsoft launched a near-final release candidate of Windows Server AppFabric in May.)Windows Server AppFabric could be the new identify for quite a few Windows infrastructure components,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, including the “Dublin” app server and “Velocity” caching technology. Microsoft is touting Windows Server AppFabric as supplying elasticity and substantial availability for Web programs, as well as delivering much more advancement and management of on-premises Windows apps. Windows Server AppFabric demands Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 and is going to be totally free to consumers with Regular and Enterprise editions of these items.Update: Other tidbits from TechEd Day one:* Microsoft has up to date the Windows Azure software program advancement kit (SDK), adding .Net Framework 4, Visual Studio 2010 (RTM version) assistance and IntelliTrace support.* Microsoft said it'll be providing spatial data assistance and access to 50 GB of SQL Azure database. There;s a new public preview of the SQL Azure Information Sync Company, a instrument for controlling how information is distributed and synced across several datacenters. Microsoft also is working on SQL Server Web Manager, a tool for developing,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, deploying and managing cloud apps.* Microsoft has created available to developers the Bing Map App programming interface to developers by way of the Bing Mapp App Software program Advancement Kit (SDK). Developers who compose apps making use of that SDK will likely be ready to submit them for probable inclusion in Microsoft;s Bing Maps app ##############.