Speculation has been growing in the media that Windows Server 2008, could be delayed past its RTM and slip into 2008. Microsoft says "it just ain't so."
Microsoft has added another "core" product, one that will make Web hosting companies and Web farm administrators happy: Internet Information Services 7.0 is now available as a server core installation on Windows Server 2008.
The pitfalls of early adoption. Plus, logging in can be a lot easier said than done.
- By Steven Fishman and Alex Albright
- 06/01/2007
Making an isolation group -- step by step.
- By Greg Shields
- 06/01/2007
ImageX is a slick compression tool that can help with Windows Vista deployment, as well as everyday file compression.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese and Tim Duggan
- 06/01/2007
Is it worth migrating servers in the next year?
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2007
The new crop of deployment tools for Windows Vista is a marked improvement over its predecessors.
- By Rhonda Layfield
- 06/01/2007
Whether you're an enterprise network or a small company, there's nothing to be scared of with this Ghost.
- By Greg Shields
- 06/01/2007
IT admins are justifiably excited by the idea of a "server core" in Windows Server 2008, formerly code-named Longhorn Server. The technology, which strips out extraneous functionality to allow just the services needed to run a server in a specific role, promises easier installation and a smaller footprint once set up. It even has implications for security.
Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/30/2007
Warning to users of pre-release versions of Windows Vista: In two days, your operating system will self-destruct, like the cassette tape at the beginning of "Mission: Impossible."
Microsoft announced the cancellation of its semi-annual Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) last week, leading to lots of Internet speculation on the reason. But conspiracy theorists should take a breath: The reason may well be as mundane as the fact that it just isn't necessary this year.
Microsoft tends to tout the release of a new operating system as an earth-shattering event, certain to change computing as we know it.
Microsoft announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week that the mid-cycle, R2 release of Windows Server 2008 will be 64-bit only. Some have extrapolated that to mean that Windows Vista will be the final 32-bit desktop OS from Microsoft. Not so, according to a company blog.
Windows Server 2008 general availability is still months away, but Microsoft already has plans for a Windows Server 2008 R2 release in 2009.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/17/2007