Posted by Steven Parker on 10 January 2003 - 11:36 · 12 comments & 719 views
Cheers Bink for this one. If your too lazy to read its: 24th of April oh and the year is 2003 ;)
Microsoft has set the official launch date of Windows Server 2003 to April 24, 2003. The operating system product family, which was recently renamed from Windows .NET Server 2003, will launch in San Francisco alongside Visual Studio 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, Windows Server Group Product Manager told me Thursday.

Windows Server 2003 is the successor to Windows 2000 Server. It began life as Whistler Server, alongside Windows XP, then known simply as Whistler. However, after the Beta 2 release of both products in early 2001, the release schedules diverged, and Windows XP was eventually released in October 2001.

News source: Wininformant




The name of Windows Server 2003 changed several times during its development. Microsoft told me this week that the change to Windows Server 2003, and away from Windows .NET Server 2003, was made in response to partner and customer feedback. The company is moving toward a branding strategy for its products where ".NET Connected" is the moniker Microsoft uses to identify products that "enable customers to easily and consistently connect disparate information, systems, and devices to meet their people and business needs, regardless of underlying platform or programming languages." Microsoft will use this branding on its own products, and will allow software partners that meet certain criteria do so as well.



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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Neobond on 10 Jan 2003 - 11:37
whos got a nice transparant Windows 2003 Server logo for neowin then
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by xStainDx on 10 Jan 2003 - 16:02
NEOBOND!!! [IMG]http://www.microsoft.com/windows.netserver/images/bnr_windowsserver2_LTR.gif[/IMG] Thats on the Microsoft Site!! or.. [IMG]http://home.online.no/~msols/w2003.PNG[/img]

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Kombatant on 10 Jan 2003 - 11:53
I am more looking forward to Visual Studio 2003 myself.. should be fun
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by antny_uk on 10 Jan 2003 - 14:29
Ditto Kombatant - im sure there will be a few nice features for use with .Net server...sorry Windows server 2003, just have to wait till server 2003 is more widespread....dont think we'll be upgrading....
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by vettimdorr on 10 Jan 2003 - 15:28
VS2003? Wow, I missed that one
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by Jason on 10 Jan 2003 - 15:40
I have ordered a preview copy of VS2003 from MS UK.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by acbd on 10 Jan 2003 - 16:03
Visual Studio 2003? Shouldn't it be Visual Studio .NET 2003? I guess they have renamed it too :disappoin
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by y_notm on 10 Jan 2003 - 21:44
[neoquote=#5.0 by acbd]Visual Studio 2003? Shouldn't it be Visual Studio .NET 2003? I guess they have renamed it too :disappoin [/neoquote] afaik it still is VS .NET 2003, which makes sense seeing it is a .NET development tool
Quote this comment #5.2 Posted by acbd on 11 Jan 2003 - 13:16
[neoquote=#5.1 by y_notm]afaik it still is VS .NET 2003, which makes sense seeing it is a .NET development tool[/neoquote]
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by xStainDx on 10 Jan 2003 - 16:03
NEOBOND!!! [IMG]http://www.microsoft.com/windows.netserver/images/bnr_windowsserver2_LTR.gif[/IMG] Thats on the Microsoft Site!! or try this one.. [IMG]http://home.online.no/~msols/w2003.PNG[/IMG]

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Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by hotrod on 10 Jan 2003 - 18:48
xStainDx!!!!! HE SAID TRANSPARENT!!!!
Quote this comment #6.2 Posted by xStainDx on 10 Jan 2003 - 20:13
he can make that into one, i'm no graphics guru... all ya gotta do is reverse the White to Black and remove the blue!!! or you can use the one i just added.

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