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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