Microsoft has now made the final version (RTM) wave 15 products available for download to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. The following products are available for download: Exchange 2013 Lync 2013 SharePoint 2013 Office 2013 Visio 2013 Project 2013 General availability is still in Q1. Read more in my previous post: Wave 15 is now RTM More on www.technet.com or www.msdn.com for subscribers.
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Microsoft is really eating their own dogfood. They just annonced the complete migration of both MSDN and TechNet, two of the most popular web sites in the world, are now running on virtual machines (Microsoft Hyper-V). Microsoft kept the back-end database on physical boxes, but moved 100% of its IIS7 frond-ends on Hyper-V RC0 VMs with 4 virtual CPUs and 10GB RAM. The virtualization hosts (no mention of the brand obviously) are powered by 2 …