Microsoft has set the official Windows Server 2003 launch date: April 24. The OS product family, which the company recently renamed from Windows .NET Server 2003, will launch in San Francisco with Visual Studio .NET 2003, the company says. "Microsoft will unveil [Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio 2003] and demonstrate how customers can quickly build, deploy, and manage a complete server solution for connected platforms," Bob O'Brien, the Windows Server Group product manager, told me yesterday.

Windows Server 2003 is the successor to Windows 2000 Server. The product began life as Whistler Server alongside Windows XP, then became known as Whistler. However, after the beta 2 release of b ... more

Winbeta.org posted : The long wait is over! New builds of Windows 2003 server (aka .NET server) will be rolled out later today. This time its build #3742. Nearly 25 builds ahead of a so far very stable RC2, this 3742 is expected to be that much cleaner. Throughout the day expect to find these versions as they trickle out to the servers: Enterprise server, Web server edition, and Datacenter edition.



As far as feature additions, don't expect much different. Do expect the little bugs and ticks that you may have noticed to be smoothed over. Not much else to report really. ... more