If the road to Windows Vista was a bumpy, winding dirt trail, the route to Windows Server 2008 (formerly code-named "Longhorn Server") has been a paved, four-lane highway.
Over the past two years, beta testers have been giving Microsoft a thumbs up for its progress with Windows Server 2008, the first major upgrade to Windows Server since 2003. Microsoft has stuck pretty close to schedule with its stated plans for the new OS, commencing with the first beta issued back in July 2005 and most recently with beta 3, released just five weeks ago. The Windows Server team actually has added a fairly major feature -- the PowerShell scripting environment -- to the product midway through the testing process
Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 has been radically redesigned. Here's how it was done.
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