Windows Server Virtualization (Viridian) Announcement (sad)
Oh come on now! (Windows Server Division Blog)
They already are releasing the product late (the BETA will be released in conjunction with the RTM of Longhorn), and now they are removing some of the most highly-touted features that actually were going to set the product apart from the leader? Some of the ground-breaking features being axed:
- Hot-add of resources (memory, processor, storage and networking)
- Live migration (this is a killer app currently being offered by VMWare in their VMotion technology)
- Support limit of 16 cores (4 processor, quad core) though I don’t see this as a big issue. I think you’d need some pretty hefty hardware for your host to even get close to that many cores being useful. My vision probably isn’t as broad as the developers though – I’m sure we’ll see Quad-proc, Octo-Core boxes on the desktop a few years out.
Stings, doesn’t it? Time to start looking at VMWare…
Google Spreadsheets invites using chat feature
I signed up for an invitation to the new Google Spreadsheets beta, and it only took about a day for the invite to arrive. I played around with it, saw some cool features, but wanted to show my friend what it was like. I couldn’t see any “Invite” button or functionality in the application, but I did see a “Share this Spreadsheet” link at the top-right.
Clicking the link opens an invitation sidebar that allows you to invite others to read or edit the document:
You can only invite users who have Google Accounts, but hey: who doesn’t have one by now? As soon as the invited user opens the spreadsheet, the sharing section changes:
Clicking “Chat with …” displays a sidebar allowing the spreadsheet’s users to chat while editing the spreadsheet, all in real-time.
Keep up the suprises, Google 