A topic which I've been following is that of WHS to MSDN subscribers. For months now, the MSDN Subscription team have left subscribers hanging, with speculation that it was going to be available for download. However, it seems this will no longer be the case.

In a post on the msdnsubscriptions blog, SubscriptionsBlogger2 has removed all hope, and announced that the WHS business team have decided not to release WHS to developers through MSDN.

The full post can be found here, with some unhappy user comments.

However, once again, it's been left a little bit open ended, as they've not ruled out a future release on MSDN Subscriptions, however, I feel this may be a little too late for most subscribers.

Off topic a bit, but I spotted this on crymod.com and thought I would mention it here.

These guys are working on a C&C mod for crysis. It's in it's very early stages, but they're looking for help, if you think you can help, head on over and give them a shout in the forum.

I'll be watching this one close! Oh, and if you got crysis over the weekend, happy gaming ;)

My nice spanking new server arrives today, a dual quad core XEON, with 8GB RAM and 2TB of SATA2 love!

I will be using it to test a rig for Windows 2008 hardware assisted vitalization, as I am in the process to developing a hosting solution that uses 2008's VM functionality.

I'll try and post something more about this over the next week or so, along with my first impressions of Windows 2008!

This is my first post using Windows Live Writer, which so far seems pretty good; and it's handy having those Office style touches, like spell checking.

It seems to be pretty easy to embed content too, easy to select video's/maps/images etc.

I do notice that you can set tags and categories, but can't add new ones, which could be a bit of a pain. It would be nice not to have to login to your blog just to add/update them.

I'll post another thoughts and reactions on Windows Live Writer again soon once I've had time to use it a bit more.