Speaking to more than 10,000 IT professionals attending the Microsoft Tech�Ed North America 2008 IT Professionals conference, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft Corp., said that the past year has been a pivotal one in the evolution of corporate datacenters, and that Microsoft is delivering on its Dynamic IT initiative thanks to products such as Windows Server 2008; Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5; the next version of Identity Lifecycle Manager, code-named ILM �2�; Microsoft Visual Studio 2008; and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Muglia�s remarks built upon his comments at last year�s Tech�Ed event, (http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0705/30242/Bob_Muglia-Dynamic_IT_MBR.asx), where he touted the benefits of Microsoft�s Dynamic IT initiative, and came on the heels of last week�s Microsoft Tech�Ed North America 2008 Developers conference, where Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spoke to the transformation of application development. Dynamic IT, which converts IT from a business expense to a business asset and shifts the IT focus from activities that just keep datacenters running to those that can result in strategic advantages, continues to be a key theme for the company.