| Microsoft To Let Users Lead Longhorn Forward |
| Wednesday, 31 May 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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The company said this week at its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference that it would offer Go Live licences for Longhorn Server Beta 2 to subscribers of the Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet. The licences would let those users run Longhorn Server Beta 2 and Internet Information Server (IIS) 7.0 in production. (Microsoft's beta licences usually forbid testers from running the code in production environments.) The company also detailed hardware error-checking features and security features, and said Longhorn would have a Beta 3 early next year. It did not say how the Go Live licences would be constructed or what the cost would be, but it plans to restrict the rollouts to certain server functions or roles. Microsoft is attacking the server operating system market from bottom to top with versions of Longhorn designed for everything from small businesses to data centre deployments. The company says it hopes Longhorn will help continue 15 consecutive quarters of revenue growth in its server and tools business. Longhorn has a new feature called Server Manager that lets administrators configure servers with only the components they need for specific tasks, such as file servicing, Web serving, DNS or DHCP. Server Manager includes 17 roles. Read more here.
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