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Microsoft will announce the first release candidate for its small business edition of Windows Server 2003 in June, officials said at a meeting here with CRN.

Microsoft's Small Business Server 2003, which will incorporate Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services, is going to be promoted heavily for its ease-of-deployment capabilities and enhanced remote user features, officials said at the Windows Server 2003 launch in San Francisco on Thursday.

The small business server, considered to be the fifth version of Windows Server 2003, is expected to ship by the end of September. At the launch, Microsoft officials pointed to the latest shipping date as four to five months after Windows Server 2003 ships. Windows Server 2003 ships this week. The family consist of web, standard, enterprise, datacenter and small business editions.

For instance, the out-of-the-box experience for creating portals and configuring remote connections will be easier for many small businesses that have mobile workforces and telecommuters.

Microsoft confirmed that it is still in discussions about whether or not to include SQL Server and Internet Security & Accelerator (ISA) security server in the next generation server.

News source: crn.com

0.6:
- bumped component version, pre-0.6 components no longer load
- fixed time-display-on-seek-while-paused
- added new statusbar options
- improved speed of database operations
- redesigned database, default config no longer permanently stores info, you need to configure it to get albumlist stuff to work
- added new DSP helper classes in SDK
- added reset button on titleformatting page, resets only one of strings
- improved diskwriter & replaygain, they no longer block main window
- added $rgb(), $progress2(), $transition()
- added new playlist format (.fpl)
- fixed rare crash with querying for currently selected file
- added configurable file info reading logic
- "restrict added files" now affects more actions
- ported dithering routines from SSRC with tweaked parameters; dithered output is no longer bit-identical to source lossless format
- added one-time reminder in foo_out_ks
- added file type recognition based on mime
- switched internal data format from 32bit floatingpoint to 64bit floatingpoint
- VBR extrainfo on MP3 files is back, more reliable now
- changed API for archiver support, now much nicer to work with, shared code handles boring tasks such as file path parsing
- added user profile support
- new mp3 seeking code, slower but sample-exact
- added full file buffering option
- increased size of preferences window
- positions of playlist search and file info box are now remembered if "remember window position" is enabled
- added "sort only selection" in playlist
- moved diskwriter to a separate dll
- added command to reset total playback time counter
- following Xiph's recommendations, Ogg files containing garbage at the beginning no longer play
- vorbis streaming should now update title on track change
- updated Vorbis decoder to latest CVS
- various config options now use dropdown lists
- reverted to old "remove duplicates" code, faster with big playlists
- made infobox font configurable
- %_ispaused%, $rand()
- added startup console messages about dlls that failed to load
- metadb_handle technology ?
- reduced playlist memory usage (uses metadb_handle instead of storing file paths)
- improved speed of various playlist-related operations
- added VOC input, thanks to kode54
- more resampler options (older machines dont like new 64bit resampling)
- foo_dsp_extra now compiled with ICL7.1 (meh, it doesn't make any difference on my new XP2200+)
- fixed some problems with cue input
- more %__codec% fields with various formats
- user-friendly KS output device names, thanks to kode54