My boss was nice enough to let me go to the Microsoft conference here in Green Bay Wisconsin. I suppose it helped that it was a free event.
The morning session was a TechNet event, which means it was geared more toward the IT side of computing. In other words, as a software developer, it was pretty boring and unrelated to my job. Here were some of the more interesting tidbits:
- In Vista and above, the TCP/IP stack was rewritten, and if you have an IPv6 network, you can see an 80% increase in network performance while transferring large files.
- Microsoft has been using the next version of Exchange for many of their internal users. One group was given 10gb of space for mail on the server instead of the regular 2gb. That server has been working very well with load of 7500 users. That is pretty amazing.
- Using their own spam protection instead of the previous method of stacking 7 different solutions has resulted in a dramatic decrease in the number of spam messages they have been receiving. The presenter, for example, gets about 400 spam messages/day and even more legitimate emails, but their spam protection blocks all but 2-3 per week.
I'll discuss the afternoon MSDN session in my next post. The highlights were LINQ, WCF, and Silverlight.
posted @ Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:55 PM