Monday, February 25, 2008

Windows 2008 - Detailed Technical Articles

Windows Server Performance Team Blog, has been publushing very nice articles about new features of Windows 2008 for more than a month. Most recent ones are about the new Terminal Server features, and they provide very detailed "behind the scenes" information which is not available in step-by-step guides. If you want to discover the technology details and get some fine tuning tips directly from Microsoft, check out this link:

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/default.aspx

Differences between Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

Microsoft published an excellent document which highlights the major differences between the new and old version of Windows. It's quite a long read, but it's definitely valuable.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=173E6E9B-4D3E-4FD4-A2CF-73684FA46B60&displaylang=en

Monday, February 4, 2008

Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 RTM Today

Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2008 development is complete and it has been released to manufacturing. For those who are participants of the TAP or RDP programs, the code can be downloaded from Microsoft Connect Web site. The others have to wait a little bit more.

At the same time, Vista SP1 completed the RC phase and has been RTM'd. Unfortunately, there's no download link available yet. I will try to update this post when more information comes in.

For some major highlights about the releases you can check out this link:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=988