Microsoft is renowned for using code names for its product development and sometimes the code names are far more interesting than the final product names they become.

Well Microsoft's latest new product is a new version of their Cloud Computing technology (the current of which is Live Mesh which is in public beta). The code name for this new version? According to Information Week, it's Red Dog.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209400797

This gave me a chuckle but my good friend Paul hinted at something interesting (who ironically also works for Microsoft). I may find some some new visitors to this site whilst they look for information on "Red Dog".

So if you are someone looking for information of codename "Red Dog", I'm afraid you've lucked out but whilst you're here, by all means stay a while, take a read and welcome

For all you WHS users out there, the long awaited update (PowerPack 1) has RTM'd and can now be downloaded from Microsoft's Download centre (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1A6AEF46-DB57-401F-814F-6EFA26E7A1E8&displaylang=en).

This brings a number of advantages as well as fixing the Data Corruption bug when using applications to write data directly to the WHS Shares if multiple drives are connected.

This update also brings with it full x64 support so I can finally remove Vista's backup for my Vista Ultimate x64 install and have the machine backed up like all of my other x32 clients.