Talk about blade servers and you’d imagine them running stable OS on them. So having Vista capable blades sounds even more outlandish but it seems ClearCube Technology have come up with some great innovations.

The new ClearCube R1300 blade features an Intel dual core Pentium processor and the R2200 employs dual Intel Xeon processors with Hyper-Threading (HT). Both PC blades are the fastest, single- and dual-processor PC Blades available and are designed to significantly enhance the enterprise user experience. Both blades are fully capable of running Microsoft’s upcoming Vista operating system, including Aero, Vista’s advanced user interface with the optional NVIDIA Quadro NVS285 PCI-Express graphics card.

ClearCube Technology Releases First Vista Capable PC blades and First Dual-Core PC blade source

The new ClearCube R1300 blade features:

# Intel® Pentium® dual and single core processors
# Integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics or optional NVIDIA Quadro NVS285 PCI-Express graphics card
# Up to 2 GB of DDR2-667 memory
# SATA II Hard Drive
# Dual integrated Ethernet Ports

Ah…humour from Microsoft. Last time, Bill Gates got a load of that when he encountered a blue screen at one of those seminars and now here’s one on Vista’s fried demo…I guess there’s still a lot of tinkering to be done on the good old Vista.

Microsoft demonstrated Vista’s ability or rather inability to perform speech recognition in Redmond this week. Unfortunately the demo didn’t go as planned and showed exactly why Vista has taken 5 years to produce and constantly gets delayed.

A Vista Demo that went Bad

Microsoft Corporation’s new Vista is getting the new Samsung 4GB Flash Disk for its use.

Designed for use in conjunction with the (supposedly) impending Windows Vista operating system, the Samsung 4GB solid state disk (SSD) will serve as a high speed NAND flash cache for notebooks and PCs. It works using ‘Windows ReadyBoost’ a new Vista feature which works intelligently with the SSD to populate it with the data a user needs before they ask for it. It readies favourite applications and data in the background, accelerating everyday actions such as starting programmes and switching users.

Microsoft Corporation’s new Vista to get Samsung 4GB Flash Disk source

An interesting account of Native Wifi support in Vista. Not sure if they have good software for the draft 802.11n yet but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

In my previous posts about WMM support in Vista, I described how Windows network applications can indicate which priority level they desire for traffic sent, and how Native WiFi (NWF) drivers can identify this traffic to provide appropriate prioritization over the shared wireless segment. It’s important; however, to realize that the NWF driver in Windows can only prioritize this traffic if the wireless access point (AP) supports WMM. I thought it would be worthwhile to discuss how to determine if an AP supports this capability. Note that your network application does not have to worry about this; the driver does it for you. But, if you were inclined to figure it out yourself, I’ll tell you how to go about it. As always, some background is necessary first.

Native WiFi Driver in Vista source