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Windows Server 2008 RTMs in early February

Time: 13:26 EST/18:26 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

After nearly five years of development, numerous iterations and missed release dates, Windows Server 2008 will finally be released to manufacturing on February 6.

Microsoft's official launch date for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 is February 27, although delivery of SQL Server 2008 was recently delayed until Q3 2008.

All of the Windows Server 2008 SKUs, except those with the Hyper-V hypervisor, will RTM on February 6. Vista Service Pack 1 is also slated to be ready that date. Hyper-V is still scheduled to come out six months after the Windows Server 2008 launch.

Though the server, once code-named Longhorn, is far different from what originally appeared on the drawing board at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in 2003, engineers and IT shops who have tested the new software generally give it good reviews.