Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the next generation of the Windows Server operating system that helps information technology (IT) professionals maximize control over their infrastructure while providing unprecedented availability and management capabilities, leading to a significantly more secure, reliable, and robust server environment than ever before. Windows Server 2008 delivers new value to organizations by ensuring all users regardless of location are able to get the full complement of services from the network. Windows Server 2008 also provides deep insight into the operating system and diagnostic capabilities to allow administrators to spend more time adding business value. Windows Server 2008 builds on the success and strengths of the award-winning Windows Server 2003 operating system and on the innovations delivered in Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2003 R2. However, Windows Server 2008 is far more than a refinement of predecessor operating systems. Windows Server 2008 is designed to provide organizations with the most productive platform for powering applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the datacenter with exciting, valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the base operating system. Brief Description This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Beta 3. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9aa65956-4a13-46a3-9711-82939a041792&DisplayLang=en
On behalf of windowsnetworking.com I would like to congratulate all systems administrators on the occasion of SAAD, System Administrator Appreciation Day. May all your servers be stable and trouble free! May your users be intelligent and patient!
Visual Studio 2008 is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and the Web. The Beta 2 release includes most of the products found in the Visual Studio product line. MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Download page: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx
CHICAGO — July 23, 2007 — Through its presence at HostingCon 2007 this week, Microsoft Corp. will announce its comprehensive strategy for enabling hosting providers to be successful in the world of software plus services. The strategy includes providing the next-generation hosting platform, delivering applications ready for hosting, and driving growth through tight integration with Microsoft's extensive partner ecosystem. At the show, Microsoft will demonstrate recent additions and updates to its core platform technologies and applications for the hosting industry that enable service providers to offer a compelling next-generation end-user experience for their customers. Microsoft will highlight new development tools and applications to hosting providers for the first time, detail the initial successes of its Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Go Live license program for Microsoft® IIS7 beta, and announce that cPanel Inc. has introduced a Windows® version of its control panel. With these enhancements, hosting providers are well positioned to play an important role in the software plus services ecosystem by partnering with Microsoft. "The adoption of software plus services has presented many new possibilities for the hosting industry to evolve and grow. There is a tremendous opportunity through the emergence of the Web as a business and consumer platform, but it also introduces potential challenges for hosting providers as the industry undergoes this transformation," said John Zanni, managing director of Worldwide Hosting in the Communications Sector at Microsoft. "The hosting providers that will succeed are those that understand the software plus services opportunity and recognize how to leverage their expertise to offer compelling new services to customers. Our goal at Microsoft is to provide the technology, both our own and through our vast partner network, that will enable hosting providers to continue to successfully deliver a broad range of services." In
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 16, 2007 – Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today extended its networking infrastructure offerings with the addition of the J2320 and J2350 J-series services routers, Secure Services Gateway 320M (SSG 320M) and SSG 350M security platforms and two new network management appliances with the Juniper NetScreen-Security Manager (NSM) Central Manager and Juniper NSMXpress. The addition of these new products underscores Juniper Networks' ongoing commitment to designing, developing and delivering best-in-class secure networking technologies for enterprise branch office deployments. The new J-series, SSG and NSM products will enable enterprises to accelerate the secure delivery of business critical applications across their networks and ensure that their information technology initiatives deliver business value. As enterprises strive to enhance user productivity through the fast, reliable and secure delivery of business applications to branch offices they must also anticipate the escalating demands and risks along the way. To be successful, enterprises must simultaneously empower a growing number of branch office users, successfully converge disparate legacy networks, proactively contain security risks, and deploy new business applications. The new J-series services routers and SSG security platforms help businesses meet these demands and mitigate the risks at scale by simultaneously delivering security, reliability, and performance with services. With the addition of the NSMXpress and the NSM Central Manager, enterprises can scale the enforcement of global security policies with greater ease, efficiency and effectiveness. "With the branch office market evolving and the demand for choice and flexibility increasing, enterprises struggle to provide a high-performance, secure, and reliable network to branch office users," said Andrew Braunberg, Research Director, Enterprise Security and Software, Current