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<title>Hyper-V isn't the only Windows Server 2008 virtualization solution that's lagging</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1225</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:56:15 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1225</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has taken its lumps for the fact that its built-in Windows Server 2008 hypervisor won't be available in final (non-beta) form until the third quarter of this year. But it's not just Microsoft's own Hyper-V that isn't quite ready for prime-time. Several other virtualization products from Microsoft's competitors and partners aren't 100-percent enterprise-ready, either, at this point. Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008, along with SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, on February 27. Windows Server 2008's virtualization capabilities was one of the key themes of the launch. The version of Windows Server 2008 that is slated to be available to customers starting March 1 includes a built-in beta release of Microsoft's Hyper-V, code-named "Viridian." Microsoft has said that it will make ... ]]>
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<title>Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1223</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:29:08 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1223</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When Microsoft officially launches Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in one fell swoop on February 27, it will have a cadre of software, hardware and services partners backing its play. One group that won't be physically  onstage with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Los Angeles will be the open-source software vendors that the Redmond software vendor increasingly has been encouraging to port their products to Windows. But that doesn't mean Microsoft is simply assuming that if they build a new back-end infrastructure, these newfound friends will automatically show up. Microsoft has been making a concerted effort in recent months to convince open-source vendors that LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl) isn't the only game in town. ... ]]>
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<title>Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1218</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:41:53 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1218</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As discontent over Windows Vista (with or without Service Pack 1) continues to swirl, Microsoft is gearing up to launch on February 27 the "other" Windows: Windows Server 2008. Even though it is built from the same core as Vista, Windows Server is different from Vista in a number of ways, from its role-based configuration options, to its built-in hypervisor. Guest blogger Jason Perlow (of asbestos-underwear fame) has been an advocate for Microsoft making Windows Server 2008 available as in workstation/desktop form. Like the old Windows NT and Windows 2000 Workstation products, a Windows Server 2008 Workstation would be a form factor for power users who don't need all the Vista desktop eye candy, but care more about manageability and performance. ... ]]>
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<title>Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plans</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1203</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:53:11 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1203</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is sharing more details about its small- and mid-size servers due out later this year that will be built around Windows Server 2008. Both of these servers are part of the newly-christened Essential Server Solutions Family. At the low end (for users with 50 PCs or fewer), Microsoft will offer Windows Small Business Server 2008, the product codenamed "Cougar." For mid-size companies, Microsoft is readying Windows Essential Business Server 2008, codenamed "Centro." Both of these products are currently in private beta testing, according to Microsoft. They will go to public beta some time in the first half of this year and both launch together in the second half of 2008, company officials said. Microsoft is sharing more specifics about the two pending ... ]]>
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<title>There's no Windows Server 2008 SP1 in the works. Here's why</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1193</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:53:46 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1193</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Customers who are waiting for Service Pack (SP) 1 to start planning/deploying Windows Server 2008, don't hold your breath. Microsoft is not going to issue an SP1 for its latest Windows Server release. The reason? Windows Server 2008 already is labeled as "Windows Server 2008 SP1." Chalk that abnormality up to Microsoft's ongoing attempt to more closely synchronize its Windows client and Windows server releases. Because Windows client and server are built from the same core and thus get patched with many of the same updates and fixes, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are now "on par." (Indeed, Microsoft released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 on the same day, February 4.) To reflect that fact, Microsoft ... ]]>
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<title>Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1182</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:57:36 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1182</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After his last foray into the    Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product    space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft   s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008. Although Hyper-V is still in beta and isn't slated to ship in final form until the latter half of this year -- and will be missing a few previously-promised features by the time it does arrive -- it just might be the "killer app" for Windows Server, and one which will have Microsoft's competitors scrambling to keep up, Perlow claims. Here he is, in his asbestos-lined underwear, awaiting the inevitable flames . Take it away, Jason: I confess to being a virtualization junkie. ... ]]>
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<title>What will run on Windows Server 2008 -- and when</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1153</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:20:04 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1153</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Now that Microsoft has released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008, the next obvious question is which applications will run on it -- and when? Are we in for a Windows-Vista-like experience, where even some of Microsoft's own applications didn't work with its new operating system for weeks, if not months? There is going to be a delay between Windows Server 2008's availability and the time when some of Microsoft's key enterprise apps will fully support Windows Server 2008, Microsoft officials acknowledged. In part, this is because Microsoft's various product divisions -- just like third-party software vendors -- need to wait for the final Windows Server 2008 bits to do real tests and tweaks for compatibility, the Softies said. But because the Windows ... ]]>
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<title>Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are soup</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1148</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:01:03 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1148</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is done with Windows Server 2008 and released it to manufacturing, as of February 4. Ditto with Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestones for both Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 during his annual Strategic Update for Wall Street on February 4 shortly thereafter. Today at 5 a.m. PST on the company's Redmond campus, Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 held its sign-off party. (No word on what the Vista folks did to celebrate. Guess that's a non-disclosure-agreement-protected secret, like everything is these days on the client side of the Microsoft house.) I've asked Microsoft when the final bits will be available to customers for download. No word back yet. It looks like ... ]]>
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<title>About the Windows Server 2008 stack</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1056</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:15:26 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paul Murphy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1056</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There's an old saying about the devil making work for idle hands - so there I was last week, feeling a little bored and idly clicking through  a story both about and by some guy named Whitehorn  who's going to blog an extensive development project based on the forthcoming Microsoft server stack. The opening paragraphs in the write up make sense and it seemed like an interesting project to follow - at least until I got to the self congratulatory rationale for leading this organization down the garden path: If an application runs fine on version eight of your preferred RDBMS, why would you even consider upgrading to version nine? The best you can possibly hope for is ... ]]>
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<title>Will Vista and Windows Server 2008 really be better together?</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1138</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:50:28 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1138</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft doesn't trot out its old "Better Together" marketing campaign much any more. But "Better Together" will be one of the messages Microsoft will be playing up in February, as it marches towards its big-bang Windows Server 2008 launch. Microsoft's premise is that the combination of Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 on the desktop and Windows Server 2008 on the back-end will be preferable to running either product by itself. As James Senior, a Microsoft Technical Specialist, noted on his blog recently, Microsoft is emphasizing that Vista and Server 2008 came from the same core. Senior points to a Windows Server 2008 Overview article that explains the shared heritage of the pair: "Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 originally began as part of ... ]]>
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