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Windows Server 2008 is apparently going to live up to its name, with Microsoft acknowledging Wednesday that it won't be able to finish work on the product this year, as scheduled.
"Windows Server 2008, which we have been saying would Release to Manufacturing (RTM) by the end of the calendar year, is now slated to RTM in the first quarter of calendar year 2008," Microsoft said on its Windows Server blog.
As for the reasoning, the company said "while we're very happy with the feedback we're getting and the overall quality of the latest product builds, we would rather spend a little more time to meet the high quality bar that our customers and partners deserve and expect."
Then the company related the analogy that one of its program managers, Alex Hinrichs, said. "It's like a brisket," he told a colleague. "It just needs a little more time to bake."
Hopefully, Microsoft doesn't create too many vegetarians (i.e. Linux users) in the mean time.
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Vista is talking hold in the enterprise. It's not fast but we're seeing some movement. Even inside my company we have users asking about it. This reminds me of XP. People said XP would never replace 2000 Pro. look around... do you see any W2k machines on the desktop?
I recentely setup a the latest Beta in VMWare and it had a driver problem with the VMWARE AMD NIC...before I loaded the VMWARE tools. The solution center popped up and (in Windows 2008) and told me that "Vista" did not have a driver for the hardware.
If you notice on the very same front page MS announces the SP1 for Vista date. That would be the finished kernel of Windows 2008...shipping at the same time.
Windows 2008 = Vista Server
Vista = Windows 2008 stripped down.
Linux and Unix are out now.