This week has seen the release of two new Microsoft products to beta. The first is Windows 7. This has been in restricted beta for a little while. Developers who went to the Professional Developer Conference (PDC) received an early release of the software.
Microsoft announced last week that Windows 7 would go into public [...]

VMware has been revamping its products since the new CEO took over, returning its focus to what has been referred to as the “Second Wave” of virtualization. VMware View 3 is the new flagship for VDI, and was released in early December.
Early talk about VMware View 3 had it touted as being a competition crusher. [...]

It has only been a couple of months since Microsoft released details on what it will offer in its cloud based services, which include Windows Azure, .Net Services, SQL Services and Live Services. The actual impact of these services to the Internet based application community will not be evident for some time yet.
In the mean [...]