In light of the fact that we will be bumping shoulders with them at the up-coming Microsoft Tech-Ed 2007 SEA, not to mention the fact that we have a huge collection of MS related topics that have built-up on our must-post-about list, we thought it would be suitable to give all of these matters at [...]

For those fortunate enough to be partners with Microsoft (such as we were blessed to be), the new Action Packs will be arriving on our Malaysian shores soon, and this release is heavily focused on radical upgrades and improvements for Vista. As the Download Squad reports, some of these exciting features include:

Improved performance in calculating [...]

4sysops reports on an excellent move from Microsoft that should facilitate legalized software in Asia and other developing areas by allowing customers to rent the software directly from them. However, it’s a shame that this service that sounds perfect for Asia is only available in South Africa.

First-time users can buy a three-month subscription for $28.54. [...]

As you may or may not know, the largest Microsoft conference to ever take place in Malaysia (Tech Ed SEA 2007) will be occurring on the 10th to 13th of September at the new Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, and NI-Limits have front row seats along with some t-shirts and caps ready to make our mark [...]

Another useful system adminstration tool reviewed by 4sysops:

Active Directory Explorer v1.0 is a free new Sys-internals tool from Microsoft. It allows you to view and edit the Active Directory database. The utility is similar to ADSIedit from the Windows Server 2003 Support Tools. It offers two useful additional features: You can create snapshots and you [...]

Lifehacker inspired a story by showing a video from Chris Prillo who has officially claimed to Upgrade to Windows XP, and as such, it gave us the opportunity to block-quote several semu-related articles from across the web:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HELrxLdP85c

Windows guy Chris Pirillo posted a 51-minute video (above) saying that 6 months later, Vista still has too [...]

Microsoft recently went to great lengths to give administrators a better understanding of the new Windows PowerShell:

What can you do with Windows PowerShell? Not much … well, except retrieve information about processes and services; read and write to text files; save data in XML or HTML format; sort, filter, and/or group [...]