Letter from Microsoft for Windows server 2008 RC0 

Note from the Editor
 
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Microsoft has reached a major milestone with the initial release candidate (RC0) of Windows Server 2008. And you can download the Windows Server 2008 RC0 for evaluation. The release candidate includes a customer technology preview (CTP) version of Windows Server virtualization, the new, thin, hypervisor-based software virtualization layer that provides customers with greater flexibility to provision multiple applications and services to servers and blades, while achieving greater application performance than is offered by traditional virtual machine environments. There has been a lot of work done in the past few months to unify the deployment tools for desktops and servers. For a preview, join the Deployment 4 Beta 3 program. Deployment 4 is the code name for the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007. Once you've accessed the Connect site and entered your Windows Live ID, enter your invitation ID: DTNU-Q77D-9QVK to access the Deployment 4 Beta. Deployment 4 unifies the tools and processes required for desktop and server deployment into a common deployment console and set of guidance.

On September 24, we made available a limited beta release of Windows Vista SP1. Hear Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President in charge of Windows Client operating systems product management, talk candidly about SP1. A later pre-release of SP1 will be available to a larger group of testers via MSDN and TechNet. To help you to better plan and confidently move forward with your current pilots and staged deployments we offered guidance on what SP1 is or isn't last earlier in September. For more details please see the SP1 overview.

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Mitch Irsfeld
Editor, TechNet Flash

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