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Only One Windows Server 2003 Box Left at Microsoft.com - All Else, Windows Server 2008

The last Windows Server 2003 will be upgraded to Windows Server 2008 on WS08 RTM

By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor

25th of January 2008, 09:40 GMT

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Microsoft is a company that is notorious for its dogfooding appetite... Dogfooding is a term illustrative of scenarios when a developer is using its own products, essentially eating its own dog food. In Microsoft, dogfooding is a common enough practice, especially when it comes down to software products. And Windows Server 2008 makes no exception to this rule, as neither did Windows Server 2003. The Redmond company has implemented Windows Server 2008 into the infrastructure that supports its Internet presence including the official Microsoft.com website long before the server operating system was in Beta stage. In this context, the Redmond company has slowly been replacing Windows Server 2003 with its successor, even though Windows Server 2008 is yet to be released to manufacturing.

"For Microsoft.com we have aggressively early adopted our latest server platform: Windows Server 2008, over the past couple of years. Into the final month or so before it finally

launches to the world, we've been actually running it into our environment for at least two years now. It was obviously a phased adoption, we didn't just cut over to these very early versions of Windows Server 2008 into the production environment all in one go. But in the very early stages we took the server product in its alpha version, played with it in the lab, got familiar with its behavior. (...) Since last May we've been running Windows Server 2008 into all the Microsoft.com production environment, all except a single Windows Server 2003 box," explained Jeff Toews, Web System Engineer with the Microsoft.com Operations (MSCOM OPS) Engineering Team.

The sole box still running Windows Server 2003 at Microsoft is still kept as a baseline for how the website behaved before Windows Server 2008, but upgrade is under way. The RTM date of Windows Server 2008 has not been officially announced at this time, after it was postponed from the end of 2007. However, third-party sources point to early February 2008 for the Windows Server 2008 code to go gold. Microsoft's last 32-bit server operating system will be launched on February 27, 2008, at the Heroes Happen Here event in Los Angeles, together with SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. At the bottom of this article, you will find embedded a video with Jeff Toews' complete interview.

"The Lone Server does in fact exist. It's the one final Windows Server 2003/Internet Information Services 6 box, in amongst this larger group of Windows Server 2008/IIS7 servers. We've kept this box around... We're not that sentimental here at Microsoft.com but... It's still a great platform but it's hat its time. Sometime after the big RTM launch [of Windows Server 2008] will cut that server to WS08," Toews added.

MSCOM OPS with Microsoft.com, WS08, IIS7, and the Lone Server

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