Announced at the Microsoft World Partner Conference, the launch date for Windows Server 2008 is set for February 27th 2008.
Microsoft said it will launch the product, which it has said will be finalized before the end of the year, at an event in Los Angeles on February 27. The company will also launch Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 at the same event. The new operating system, formerly code-named Longhorn Server, includes the PowerShell scripting language, role-based deployment options as well as network access protection features. The code for Windows Server 2008 is still set to be finished by the end of the year.
Microsoft has now annonced the official name for Longhorn Server – it will be Windows Server 2008 and you can download Windows Server 2008 beta 3 and see the newly lanuched Windows Server 2008 site at Microsoft.com.
See the Windows Server 2008 site here.
Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 has finally been released. Read more about this SP on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 page. Here’s a complete list of updates in SP2.
Direct download links:
Windows Server 2003 SP2 for x86
Windows Server 2003 SP2 for x64
Windows Server 2003 SP2 for Itanium
Microsoft is launching a Windows Home Server (WHS), it was previewed at CES in Las Vegas this week.
The first product to use Windows Home Server will come from HP and is called the HP MediaSmart Server. HP MediaSmart Server is scheduled to ship during the 2nd half of 2007. The server will be a headless box without mouse and keyboard.
Here’s some of the features of the Windows Home Server:
- Windows Home Server aims to provide an easy way to store and organize digital content.
- Windows Home Server will be able to automatically back up every Windows Vista or Windows XP based system in the home network. It will also be able to completely restore (“rewind”) a PC to a time when it was working just fine.Windows Home Server will act as a centralized way to monitor the health of all of your systems on your network and will report and notify the status to the home administrator of all Vista machines.
- A system running Windows Home Server will be accessible across multiple devices including other Windows machines or even the XBOX 360 console. You can even access a Windows Home Server system over the web via a personalized Windows Live Internet Address
- Printers can be connected and shared on a Windows Home Server system
- Windows Home Server allows for expandable storage – no matter the storage type or interface. If you run out of storage on the Home Server – no problem. Simply add an additional hard drive or drives to the system
- Comes with a set of predefined shared folders that are predefined for content – such as Photos, Videos, and Music. Users will also be able to create their own folders
- All data can be duplicated on a different drive. Users have the option of deciding whether their data needs to be duplicated for backup purposes or not for RAID like functionality. If a file is marked for duplication, a separate copy of the file will be saved on a different drive on the system.
It looks really cool to me and I’m looking forward to see this product.
I hope there will be a IIS and FTP server, which I could fully control in this product, that could be cool.
Read more on these sites:
Microsoft Windows Vista and the Office 2007 has been made available to MSDN Subscribers.
Windows Vista and Office 2007 is expected to be available through MSDN Subscriber Downloads within 7 days of release to manufacturing (RTM). The MSDN Subscriptions team is committed to making new content available to subscribers as soon as is practical.
Source: MSDN
Great news, the day has finally come, Windows Vista went RTM (Release To Manufacturing), the final build should be 6000.16386.
Foley mentions “the public announcement that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing is going to happen tomorrow, November 8, around 11 a.m. PST, sources close to the company are saying.”
Once the RTM has been announced the build should appear on MSDN at the same time according to Microsoft’s press release of yesterday.
Read more at source.
Microsoft has released the latest version of the .NET Framework.
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is the new managed code programming model for Windows®. It combines the power of the .NET Framework version 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes. These new technologies are Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows CardSpace. The .NET Framework 3.0 is included as part of the Windows Vista™ operating system; you can install it or uninstall it using Windows Features Control Panel. This redistributable package is for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
The download to the redistributable package is here. Looks like the final release! The final version of the SDK has also been released here.
Yesterday Microsoft released RC2 (Release Candidate) of Microsoft Windows Vista. So Microsoft made it by the end of the week, as all rumours indicated about a week ago.
It’s now available for everyone for a limited time at:
http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc2/en/download.htm
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