Project4 6/18/08 11:56 AM Page 1 Project6 10/16/08 11:14 AM Page 1 1108red_Cover.v3 10/15/08 2:56 PM Page 1 Microsoft Thinks Different with IE8 NOVEMBER 2008 REDMONDMAG.COM Readers’Readers’ ChoiceChoice AwardsAwards 20082008 This year, we honor our three-time winners. +Paul Maritz: The Microsoft Menace Readers Wonder If Chrome Gets Them Home Can the Cisco Kid Lasso Microsoft? How Software Can Save You Gas Project8 7/3/08 12:42 PM Page 1 Project8 7/3/08 12:44 PM Page 2 %" ) %" "' $ $ ! '"% #$"$ &$ '$ %### $ # %$ # " + " # $,* $ " %! $ ## !" $")$ $ $ !$$ %$ %#$") #$"# " # $, "&", #)#$# " " # $ #! !$$ # '" "# "% !($)* ' &" $ #$ !" " !" 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Get Smart and Get -Out Page 30 15 QuickTip: Next, Next, Repeat 16 Windows Advisor: Disk Cleanup Disaster FEATURES Waiting to Happen; POP3 Errors in Exchange 45 The Unlikely Contender 51 Remote Tools that Can Networking giant Cisco goes after Help You Save Gas COLUMNS Microsoft’s supremacy in the Besides carpooling and riding a collaboration-software market. bicycle to work, using the right 6 Barney’s Rubble: software can keep some gas Doug Barney money in your pocket. VMware Wants It All Page 51 58 Never Again: Derryl Steib Beware of the Company You Keep 60 Mr. Roboto: Page 45 Jeffery Hicks In the Mail 64 Security Advisor: REVIEWS Joern Wettern Product Review Reader Review A Better 19 Highly Available 23 Chrome Might Get Internet Explorer Exchange 2007 You Home 72 Foley on Microsoft: Service Pack 1 brings high- Google’s new beta browser Mary Jo Foley availability enhancements and shows promise, but needs IE8: Microsoft added capabilities. lots of filling out. Thinks Different ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 4 Redmondmag.com | 8 [email protected] | 71 Ad and Editorial Indexes COVER ILLUSTRATION BY ROBERT KAYGANICH Project5 9/12/08 2:03 PM Page 1 ENERGY COSTS DOWN, KARMA UP. Today, datacenters eat up to 30 times more energy per square foot than a typical office. The answer: IBM green datacenter and IT services. They can help you implement a conservation policy and measure, manage and report on real results against it. Many IBM customers have doubled their IT capacity; others have reduced energy costs by 40% or more. A greener world starts with greener business. Greener business starts with IBM. SYSTEMS. SOFTWARE. SERVICES. FOR A GREENER WORLD. Take the first step toward a greener datacenter at ibm.com/green/services IBM, the IBM logo and ibm.com are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation, registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at “Copyright and trademark information” at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml. © 2008 IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. 1108red_OnlineTOC4.v3 10/15/08 12:51 PM Page 4 Redmondmag.comNOVEMBER 2008 VirtualizationReview.com Questions with ... Get Your Virtualization Lenni Lobel Planning On! Writer Grace Townsend asks f you’re implementing virtualization anywhere in consultant and author your organization, we have the resources for you. I Lenni Lobel what We’ve recently published an in-depth series of articles developers can expect covering everything you’ll need to properly plan out your Lenni Lobel when migrating to implementation. Take a look by using these FindIT codes: SQL Server 2008. Read the full • Planning Primer: Architecture (FindIT code: VirtPA) interview online. 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The IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller can reduce storage growth by up to 20% and boost utilization by as much as 30%. And combined with IBM tape solutions, some companies have reduced their TCO by as much as 50%.1 A greener world starts with greener business. Greener business starts with IBM. SYSTEMS. SOFTWARE. SERVICES. FOR A GREENER WORLD. Get our storage virtualization whitepaper at ibm.com/green/info 1TCO estimates based on IBM internal study. IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com and System Storage are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation, registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at “Copyright and trademark information” at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml. © 2008 IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. 1108red_Rubble6.v5 10/15/08 1:32 PM Page 6 Barney’sRubble by Doug Barney RedmondTHE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE MICROSOFT IT COMMUNITY REDMONDMAG.COM NOVEMBER 2008 ■ VOL. 14 ■ NO. 11 Editorial Staff Editor in Chief Doug Barney VMware Wants It All Editor Ed Scannell Executive Editor, Features Lee Pender Managing Editor Wendy Gonchar Associate Managing Editor Katrina Carrasco icture a speech where a CEO holds forth in front of Contributing Editors Mary Jo Foley thousands of faithful customers, offering a vision Jeffery Hicks Peter Varhol that will utterly transform the way we compute. Joern Wettern P Art Staff Art Director Brad Zerbel The press pays earnest attention, spectators applaud and the Senior Graphic Designer Alan Tao world awaits the competitive fallout. Online/Digital Media Editor, Redmondmag.com Becky Nagel Executive Editor, New Media Michael Domingo Online News Editor Kurt Mackie Is this just another keynote by Bill Here are some tough questions: Associate Editor, Web Gladys Rama Gates? Steve Jobs? Eric Schmidt? Will it work? The basic idea is sound. Web Producer Shane Lee Nope! Try Paul Maritz, the still rela- A well-designed virtual server coupled Director, Web Development Rita Zurcher tively new CEO of VMware. with well-designed storage is already The address happened at VMworld pretty close to a utility. The apps are 2008 in Las Vegas, and at times I swore largely on-demand and can be moved President Henry Allain I was at Tech·Ed,WinHEC, PDC—or easily from server to server without Vice President, Publishing Matt N. Morollo a Springsteen concert. That’s how taking them down. The big issue when Vice President, Editorial Director Doug Barney Director, Marketing Michele Imgrund packed it was. you magnify this approach is reliability. Online Marketing Director Tracy S. Cook With Hyper-V gnawing at VMware’s Redmond readers are the real virtualiza- Marketing Programs Manager