Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate (RC0) has been released and will be available for download within 24 hours.
The most noticed improvement is, of course, the Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian) that was added to this version. It could be said to be a milestone version. It represents the proximity of the RTM version.
At the moment Microsoft and their testing teams are starting to test key virtualization scripts. The new version of the CTP will support multiprocessor access, bulk memory allocation, and integration of virtual exchange support.
Here are some of the things you might be interested in:
1. Microsoft and Zend are cooperating in a technical way to ensure the reliability and performance enhancements of PHP on Windows Server 2003 and 2008. As part of the collaboration, The IIS product team is writing a fastcgi extension of IIS6 and IIS7, which makes the parsing speed of PHP likely to multiply, and this extension is part of Go live, which can be obtained through www.iis.net.
Multiple sources show that a beta version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been delivered by Microsoft to approximately 12,000 testers.
Brandon LeBlanc, a Microsoft technician, says Vista SP1 is more about making existing features work better than adding new features.
First, Windows Vista SP1 allows users to change their default desktop search so that Third-party search providers can join, and users will not see the ' All Results ' option when using the Start menu search, and are replaced by ' search everywhere. ' , which calls the Windows default Desktop Search program.
Mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/evnet/mikenash_vistastatusreport_sp1_new_s_ch9.wmv
Windows Server 2008 RC0 Download Address has been published, Welcome to system administrators, web administrators, developers, ITPro, Microsoft System enthusiasts download tests.
Contains downloads for all versions.
Download: Windows Web Server 2008 RC0 Web
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Download: Windows Server 2008 RC0 Enterprise
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Download: Windows Server 2008 RC0 Standard Edition
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Download: Windows Server 2008 RC0 Datacenter
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Download: Windows Server 2008 RC0 for itanium-based Systems
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