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Windows Server 2008 SP2 Beta confirmed

FanBoy1 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:10:51 +0000

The Windows Server blog confirms what we’ve been discussing for the last week or so. Yes, SP2 for Windows Server 2008 is being beta tested by a number of Technology Adoption Program customers, starting next week.

The main items: Hyper-V RTM is included, and a power profile enhancement.

The actual release date is likely to be months away (but no surprises there).

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Vista SP2

FanBoy1 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:13:07 +0000

Microsoft is preparing a SP2 for Vista. Nothing really new there. And they aim to deliver it before Windows 7 is released. Um, no real surprises there either. In fact, we would have been surprised if Windows 7 came out before SP2.

This will also extend to an SP2 for Windows Server 2008 (keep in mind that there was no SP1 for Windows Server 2008 – that will be skipped so as to avoid confusion – Ars Technica explains why).

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Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008

FanBoy1 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:28:00 +0000

Microsoft has announced the release of its High Performance Computing Server based on Windows 2008 Server. It has been released to manufacturing as of Wednesday (24 Sep), with general availability being likely within two months. Chris Preimesberger has a good run down of the details over on DevSource.