NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) uses Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) as an integral part of several missions including the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) and Carbon in the Arctic Reservoir Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE). These missions continuously generate large volumes of data that must be processed, analyzed, and stored efficiently and reliably. Read more - http://aws.amazon.com/swf/testimonials/swfnasa/
Windows 8, both client and server editions will provide additional security capabilities against malware. Specifically, Microsoft provides guidelines for anti-malware and other security solution developers to develop security solutions to protect early boot components from malware. For instance, the Measured Boot feature provides anti-malware software with a trusted (resistant to spoofing and tampering) log of all boot components that started before anti-malware software. The Early Launch of anti-malware software feature provides a Microsoft-supported mechanism for anti-malware software to start before all other third-party components. Download the information about the early boot protection features for Windows 8 operating systems here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/br259097.aspx
Microsoft announces its first tablet computer called the Surface. The first two versions that Microsoft will release run on different processors. The Surface for Windows RT runs on an ARM processor. It is less powerful than the Surface for Windows 8 Pro, which uses an Intel processor. The RT is also thinner and weighs less than the Pro. Both tablets weigh no more than nine hundred three grams and have screens that are about twenty-seven centimeters in size. Get more info here - http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx
Download Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 8 Release Preview, and start some hands-on training how to best deploy a future roll-out of Windows 8 to end users' workstations. The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit is a collection of tools that you can use to customize, assess, and deploy Windows operating systems to new computers. Windows Deployment is for OEMs and IT professionals who customize and automate large-scale installation of Windows. Download it from here - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29929
To show everyone how simple a computer actually is and to honor Alan Turing, Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman built a simple LEGO Turing Machine. Their goal was to make every operation as visible as possible while using just a single LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT set. Read more here - http://www.legoturingmachine.org/