Kyle Ohme — In the life of a dot com

PC World reports:

Microsoft Wednesday again delayed the release of Windows Server 2008, saying development of the software could take as long as another three months beyond its previously planned December release.

Unfortunately this causes delays in Windows Server Virtualization or WSV.

Microsoft’s Snell says the Windows Server 2008 slip will affect the ship dates of the Windows Server Virtualization (WSV) add-on for Windows Server 2008, but not the framework of its release. She says the plan is still to have a WSV beta available at the RTM of Windows Server 2008 and to ship the virtualization software within 180 days of that milestone. “The end dates may have changed, but the parameters have not changed,” she says.

Snell also says Microsoft will ship a release candidate of Windows Server 2008 in the next few weeks and possibly might have a second release candidate by the end of the year. A release candidate signals the final round of beta testing before development is completed.

So what’s this mean to us? Hopefully a much better product over this years Windows Vista Release which reminds me of Windows ME.

Personally I am very excited to put the MSV through some real world tests and traffic.   I have a feeling many people are waiting on this release of virtualization to roll their environment.

On A side note, Watch out for Citrix - they are up to something and its going to be big!  They have been buying up businesses left and right in the virtualization space and they want to be in your data center!  BAD!

Possibly the most complete list of default passwords I have ran across. 

The Default Password List is a collection of accounts and passwords that are, by default, the initial passwords for specific accounts on a given computer system. Sometimes these passwords are installed out-of-box, sometimes they are automatically installed by software, and sometimes they are installed by consultants that are brought in to perform services. This list should be used as a resource for computer security consultants interested in testing the security configuration of equipment.

Here is the link: http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html

I realize this is not the only list, rather a list that I found useful.

More useful sites:
http://www.virus.org/default-password/view/M/1/
http://www.cirt.net/cgi-bin/passwd.pl
http://defaultpassword.com/