At the end of July 2009, Microsoft was giving out signals that the second service pack for Exchange Server 2007 was just around the corner. Approximately one month later, Exchange Server 2007 users can now download Service Pack 2. The Microsoft Download Center has been offering Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 since Monday August 24th, 2009, and the download is currently up for grabs. SP2 brings to the table a range of enhancements and new features, and the Redmond company is offering a detailed insight on the “What's New in Exchange Server 2007 SP2” webpage. In addition, customers looking to integrate the second service... [read more >>] At the end of the past week, Microsoft made available for download the second wave of Windows 7 RTM releases for subscribers of its MSDN and TechNet portals. On the heels of Windows 7 RTM Wave 2 downloads going live, the Redmond company also started offering its communities of developers and IT professionals the gold bits of Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7 Server). MSDN and TechNet subscribers can now grab Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM straight from Microsoft, along with Windows 7 RTM. “ TechNet and MSDN subscribers also get access to RTM in the form of full bits. This version requires you to enter a product key for activation, but t... [read more >>] While Microsoft has yet to officially release Windows 7 to manufacturing, it managed to contribute to the evolution of the rival Linux OS. The Linux kernel has grown with the addition of 20,000 lines of code from Microsoft. Somewhere between pigs flying and hell freezing over, the Redmond company is joining over 100 corporations around the world that are contributing pieces of code directly to the code of the Linux open-source operating system. On July 20, 2009, Microsoft made available no less than 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. Essentially, the software giant released three device drivers that were designed to ... [read more >>] Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download. On September 22, 2008, the same day the high performance computing platform was released to manufacturing, the gold bits of Windows HCP Server 2008 went live on the Microsoft Download Center. The Redmond giant has bundled Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition and the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 in a single package including a pair of DVDs weighing in at over 2.6 GB.“Windows HPC Server 2008 is very much a part of our total server family, which represents an $11 billion business for Microsoft. It’s no secret that currently ou... [read more >>] Microsoft is gearing up to detail more and more information related not only to Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, but also to the other Windows 7 cooking over in Redmond, namely the first minor evolution from Windows Server 2008. And while mum's no longer the word on Windows 7, even though all information released to the public is filtered drastically, the software company has just started to communicate the next iteration of Windows Server. If fact, only this week has Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows 7 Server, or Windows Server 7 is in fact nothing more than the internal codename for Windows Server 2008 R2. And in ... [read more >>] Microsoft offered official confirmation that it is hard at work cooking a pair of Windows 7 releases at the end of 2009, but no later than January 2010. The Windows 7 client, and the successor of Windows Vista, had its development process already confirmed to be scoped three years following the general release of its predecessor, but Microsoft managed to keep quiet on the remaining Windows 7 being built in Redmond. Well, mum's no longer the word when it comes down to Windows 7 Server, or Windows Server 7 as it is referred to internally, a codename that points to nothing other than a minor release to Windows Server 2008, dubbed Windows ... [read more >>] Microsoft is beginning to increasingly focus on outlining its strategy against Linux on the server operating system market, and Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is positioned as an ace up its sleeve. After having delayed the release to manufacturing date of Windows Server 2008 from the end of 2007 to early 2008, the Redmond company now confirmed yet again that its last 32-bit server operating system will indeed ship on February 27, 2008. Moreover, Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of Infrastructure Server Marketing at Microsoft, revealed that Windows Server 2008 is approaching the final stage of development at fast pace. ... [read more >>] | 
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