• Total Network Monitor, a new tool from Softinventive Lab. Supported probes: ICMP, TCP,  HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Event Log, Service State, Registry State, File Existence, File Size,  File Compare, File Count, Disk Space.
• Paul Thurrott predicts Windows 7 will be made broadly available in June 2009 – Ed Bott agrees
• Download Vista/Server 2008 SP2 Beta: ISO -  x86 – x64 -  ia64
• Licensing Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services – Short Microsoft paper
• Microsoft Online Subscription Program Licensing and Policy Guide for Customers – 13 pages
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Configuration Analyzer – VMMCA is a diagnostic tool for computers with VMM
• Expanded Control with Group Policy Preferences – This Technet article gives a good overview.
• Gartner: By 2012, the majority of x86 server workloads will be running in virtual machines. That’s in 3 years! I doubt it.
• Windows worm swells new mega-botnet – 500,000 machines. Scary!
• A plea to the Windows team: Don’t make Windows 7 too Mac-like – I can’t agree more!

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