How soon will enterprises adopt Windows Server 2008?
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Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 is slated for widespread availability on March 1, after a gala launch on February 27. But when will it enter widespread usage? A major report released today seems to present an overly rosy picture.
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SAN FRANCISCO - MicrosoftÂ will let customers configure the next major release of Windows Server for specific server tasks, rather than selling a host of different Windows Server Longhorn editions tailored to those tasks, a company executive said Friday.
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Fat lady goes back to trailer Two months after releasing a "feature complete" third Windows Server 2008 beta, Microsoft has added new features to the planned operating system's code base.â¦
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INTERVIEW While the fundamental changes to Windows' core architecture were first seen by the general public last January with the release of Vista, the impact those changes will make to how businesses work will be felt later this year, with the release of Windows Server 2008. BetaNews sat down with Microsoft's Ward Ralston to find out more.
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Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Windows Server division at Microsoft, said in an interview that he thinks the ability to configure Windows system images for various types of servers will be "the heart and soul" of the Longhorn upgrade due in 2007.
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The server release, expected to be released to manufacturing before the end of the year, is now slated to be finalized
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Microsoft is preparing a wave of enterprise products, including the long-awaited update to Windows Server.
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With an absence of fanfare, but otherwise on schedule, Microsoft opened up its download page for Service Pack 2 of Windows Server 2003, both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. Perhaps most importantly, enterprises won't have to wait until Longhorn to be able to utilize Windows Deployment Services, the company's new image-based system for pre-composed, remote Windows installations.
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Microsoft Corp. will announce the release date of the next version of its Exchange Server in the first half of 2005, but until the upgrade arrives users can expect more management tools for existing versions, a company executive said this week.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has released a major update to its server operating system, designed to make the product more stable and secure. Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 has been in beta since November, and was tested by twice as many users as Microsoft's previous Service Pack 1 update, released in March 2005. Microsoft released the service pack with little notice, prompting one administrator to complain Tuesday on her blog. "You gave us admins a heads up before XP sp2 was Microsoft updated out to our boxes," wrote Susan Bradley, [cq] chief technology officer with Tamiyasu, Smith, Horn and Braun, Accountancy Corp. [cq] "Why can't you give us a heads up on this?" This latest update can be applied to all versions of Windows Server 2003, as well as to Windows XP Professional, X64 edition, Microsoft said. It includes a number of new features including: *Scalable Networking Pack -- tools that help speed up networking intensive tasks *Windows Deployment Services -- allows administrators to set up new Windows systems remotely over the network *Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 -- makes it easier for users to securely connect to wireless networks *Microsoft Management Console 3.0 - the latest version of Microsoft's management tools *Improved IPsec and Firewall management features.
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Microsoft&#39;s Windows Server team has issued a road map for server products in 2005, indicating no changes to the most recent projected delivery dates for the next version of Windows Server 2003 and beyond.
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(InfoWorld) - About 2,600 Web sites are already running Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server 2008, a small but increasing number that indicates rising interest in the OS, according to new statistics from Netcraft. Microsoft is now usingÂ Windows Server 2008Â and its Internet Information Server (IIS) 7.0 for itsÂ main Web site,Â said Colin Phipps, Internet security services developer at Netcraft, which releases a monthly survey on what OSes are being used for Web hosting. The move means Windows Server 2008 is "production-ready for Microsoft," Phipps said, but "it's different when you have the Microsoft engineering team behind a Web site. They can pick up the phone and immediately get the engineer who worked on it." A majority of the 2,600 sites, however, are not run by Microsoft, which would indicate developers are exploring the beta versions of Windows Server 2008, Phipps said. Still, the number of sites using the new OS is tiny in proportion to Netcraft's survey, which queried some 122 million Web sites. The Apache Web server came top, used by 53.7 percent of sites, with Microsoft products following at 31.8 percent, Netcraft's survey said. Interestingly, Netcraft placed GoogleÂ in third at 3.9 percent. While Google doesn't have an OS, "Google's services are an increasingly popular alternative platform for running a blog or simple Web site or content that would have formerly been hosted on a desktop or networked file system," according to Netcraft's blog. Phipps expects use of Windows Server 2008 will rise over the coming months. Microsoft released the latest beta version of the server, formerly code-named Longhorn, on Tuesday, adding the ability to use IIS. Windows Server 2008 is expected to be released by the end of this year. Â
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Microsoft  plans to release the first Service Pack for Windows Vista on Feb. 4, according to reports from Tech ARP; meanwhile, Windows Server 2008 is also due out in the coming week.
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As we detailed earlier this week, Windows Home Server -- Microsoft's latest iteration of Windows designed for linking together multiple computers in a home network and sharing media -- has reached Release Candidate 1 status. A 30-day trial download is now available.
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Released to manufacturing Microsoft this morning released Service Pack 1 for Vista and Windows Server 2008 to manufacturers.â¦
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Updated guidelines make clearer how to use Windows Server with third-party virtualization tools including VMware -- but that will all likely change before too long.
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TechWeb - The software will ship this summer. It had been scheduled for February, along with major upgrades of Windows Server and SQL Server.