This week at Tech•Ed 2007, the buzz is all about 2008. As in, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, the new server platform formerly code-named “Longhorn” that is due out later this year. With the public beta version of Windows Server 2008 less than two months old, already more than 150,000 copies have been downloaded, and partners around the globe are hard at work creating solutions that take advantage of its new feature set.

Nowhere is the breadth and scope of this burgeoning ecosystem more apparent than in Orlando this week, where more than 250 partners are filling the Orange County Convention Center to display their wares.

Today Microsoft unveiled a new logo program for Windows Server 2008. The logo program reduces the cost of certification by 50 percent for ISVs, and provides a comprehensive suite of new tools to help them achieve certification. It is also designed help customers select software applications. Several early adopters of the Windows Server 2008 logo program are showing off their certified and in-process technologies at Tech•Ed.