Windows Server 2008 release delayed
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.
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by oeasler
September 28, 2007 7:32 AM PDT
- Vista is a nightmare. After five months (don't know what took me so long)I switched back to XP Professional and actually felt like I had upgraded. Vista will not run most of my software, including Office 2003 which goes into a loop of constantly reinstalling itself after having been installed. Some software worked, but not well. Some would work but would quit for no reason. I am sick of that little blue-green wheel that goes around and around and is the most redundant thing I have every seen. Its a ram hog, pegging my duals. Its constantly working in the background using huge quantities of my 4 gigs of ram. It takes about 3 minutes to boot up. I just can't take it anymore. And, the list goes on and on . This OS was not ready for release. Anyone who love VISTA is living with their head in the sand and unwilling to face the horrible reality of the OS thats before them. O, Yes, I contacted MS Support about my problems and they were just as confused as I.
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