Microsoft on Wednesday said it is releasing its first public test version of Windows Server 'Longhorn' as the company works to get the release out the door.
With Windows Vista, Microsoft had to cut features to try to get the release out the door. With its upcoming server release, though, Microsoft is actually adding a few features.
Federal antitrust officials have expressed growing concern that Microsoft is falling behind on deadlines to revise technical documentation to licensees, according to a joint status report released yesterday.
Microsoft has released an update to the second beta of its Windows Server "Longhorn" software, offering bug fixes and improvements in performance and reliability.
Microsoft on Wednesday gave developers access to a key piece of Windows Vista, months ahead of the operating system's release.
Microsoft is showing some early signs of success with a version of Windows geared for a technical computing market that Linux dominates today.
Sun Microsystems announced today the next version of Java will be Longhorn-ready.
Microsoft said on Thursday that it is pulling features out of the initial version of its "Viridian" hypervisor to avoid having to delay the virtualisation technology.
At its developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, Apple announced that the next version of Mac OS X will not be ready till the first half of 2007.
Microsoft has decided to initially use technology from its WinFS project in the SQL Server database, rather than directly in its Windows operating system.
Although Microsoft is looking to rope in Longhorn developers now, the company knows it's in for a long ride.
The launch of Windows Vista has created a huge opportunity for Linux vendors to take a larger share of the corporate desktop market, according to the president of Linux Australia.
Microsoft said it will unveil the hardware requirements needed to run Longhorn--the next version of Windows--at a May developer conference.
Microsoft is readying two tools to help hardware makers create more stable and secure Windows drivers, which should help reduce the number of crashes.
Even as its steers developers toward the forthcoming edition of Windows, Microsoft is building tools to write applications for the Mac OS and the Web.
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