Windows Server Code-Named "Longhorn" (2007)

Windows Vista Server "2007" Beta 1 Released

Jason.N.Gaylord — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:05:48 GMT

This forum is for the Windows Vista Server which will be released by Microsoft in 2007. Beta 1 of Windows Vista Server has been released and can be downloaded at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ with a valid MSDN Universal Subscription.

"Longhorn" is now Windows Vista

ssmith — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:04:42 GMT

Today Microsoft announced Windows Vista, formerly codename "Longhorn". Julie has a screenshot on her blog. Beta 1 for WindowsVista will be available very soon, on August 3rd.

Windows Vista Developer Center - Bits Available Now!

ssmith — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:30:30 GMT

Check out the new Windows Vista Development Center on MSDN. MSDN Subscribers can download the Beta 1 bits now - http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getthebeta/default.aspx! There are also a bunch of screenshots, and links to other Vista resources and communities.

Bill Gates speaks about Longhorn

Jason.N.Gaylord — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:50:49 GMT

At the WinHEC conference, Bill Gates speaks about Longhorn and introduces the 64-bit platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx

Longhorn Release Schedule

ssmith — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:14:47 GMT

According to WinSuperSite:

Beta 1
25 May 2005

Beta 2
12 October 2005

Client Release Candidate 0 (RC0)
22 February 2006

Client RC1
April 2006

Client Release to Manufacturing (RTM)
24 May 2006

Longhorn Launch
Summer/Fall 2006

Longhorn Server RTM/Longhorn Client SP1 RTM
Second half of 2006/first half of 2007 (Client RTM + 6 months)

There's a lot of good information (or at least, speculation) here.

Some Longhorn Info Sites

ssmith — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:11:20 GMT

Longhorn Developer Center

LonghornBlogs

What is Windows Longhorn (microsoft.com)

Paul Thurrott's WinSuperSite (with screenshots)

Goodbye WSH?

icelava — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:00:35 GMT

Looks like with the current might Microsoft is pushing with the .NET Framework (winFX), can we expect to see WSH disappear from Longhorn?

Already I see many of the new range of .NET servers (e.g. MOM 2005) only supporting extensibility and programmatic managability via .NET FW, leaving WSH for the vultures to tear apart and consume.

I wonder if administrators are supposed to be forced into real programming and forget about scripting.

MSN is the future i believe but don't forget WSH

owsteve — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:00:39 GMT

I sure hope they don't forget us who have written scripts in WSH for years. I write a ton of console based applications and the simplest thing in WSH using CDO to send email is a major chore in .NET console apps. Thank goodness there is OpenSMTP to reference for sending emails. It's more powerful than CDO but it fills a gap, I could reference CDO i guess in VS.NET but I try to keep things 100% .NET and not using legacy COM_Interop if I don't have too.. Inside asp.net webpages there is system.web.mail but nothing that I know of for scripting. From what I heard the Unix for Services 3.5 will be integrated into Longhorn. Any truth to that?