Virtualisation will be the key to the popularity of Microsoft's long-awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008, analysts have predicted.
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.
Microsoft has discovered the best beta tester for the next generation of its server operating system, Windows Server 2008, is itself.
In recent years, tech enthusiasts have turned to Microsoft's spring hardware conference as a chance to get juicy tidbits on where the software maker was headed with the next version of Windows.
Although businesses will have the option to install only certain pieces of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft isn't likely to sell the operation system in a piecemeal fashion.
Microsoft said on Wednesday that the follow-on to its Windows Server 2008 operating system will be an interim release due to arrive in 2009.
Microsoft has delayed an update to its current virtualisation software and the beta debut of its next-generation successor code-named Viridian.
In its first update to a new community-based preview program, Microsoft is showing off a number of new features for Windows Vista, including efforts to improve the Web browser and make the operating system more resilient.
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.
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 is investigating a security vulnerability which affects Vista, its newly launched operating system.
While Microsoft has touted Windows Vista as its most secure client operating system yet, the unfinished product is already getting regular security fixes.
Even though Windows XP has been on the market for more than three years, Microsoft is hoping a new advertising campaign will 'start something' when it comes to enthusiasm for the operating system.
Microsoft is on track to release the first full test version of the next major Windows release by the end of June, a Microsoft executive said on Monday.
Microsoft on Monday briefly posted pricing for Windows Vista on its Canadian Web site, giving an eye into what the company will charge for the new operating system.
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