Neowin News Feed for: Longhorn

Trivia Tuesday: Some infamous Vaporwares

Tyler Holman — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:55:01 +0000

Vaporware; the products that just keep getting delayed, and then disappears; the tech industry's full of it, and this week's Trivia Tuesday is delving into the anticlimactic world of vaporware. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Microsoft codenames

Tyler Holman — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:15:36 +0100

Ever been curious about Microsoft product codenames and the stories behind them? For this week's Trivia Tuesday, we've assembled a sampling of some of the most interesting, from Opus to Longhorn. Read more...

Longhorn Server to be christened Windows Server 2008

Tom Warren — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:26:03 +0100

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To next to no one's surprise, Microsoft is going to christen Longhorn Server "Windows Server 2008." And it might do so as early as next week to coincide with the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)... Read more...

Windows Server Longhorn Beta 3 Public Evaluation Released

Steven Parker — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:06:13 +0100

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Windows Server Codenamed Longhorn beta testers have received emails late on Thursday confirming the availability of Beta 3 of the new Server system with some of the most important changes coming to Server Core. Core... Read more...

Microsoft Windows Server Code Name Longhorn Beta 3

Shane Pitman — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:49:53 +0100

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Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" helps you to increase the flexibility of your server infrastructure while saving time and reducing costs. Powerful new management tools and security enhancements allow you to have more control... Read more...

Five Things to Know About Longhorn Server Core

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:28:58 +0000

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I've written about Server Core before -- in my Longhorn Server review of Beta Version 2. It's Microsoft's great new addition to the Longhorn Server product. Essentially, Server Core is a slimmed-down, appliancelike version of... Read more...

Longhorn Server to Be Named Windows Server 2007

Steven Parker — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:36:42 +0000

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ActiveWin are claiming that the final designation for Windows Codenamed Longhorn Server will be Windows Server 2007 after all, how original! Speculated here long before Vista hit RTM. "An unnamed Microsoft official just confirmed to... Read more...

Windows Vista, Longhorn Server and IE 7 Beta Test Reboot

Neowin Staff — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:38:49 +0000

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Testers who responded to the Microsoft call up to be re-included into the Windows Longhorn Server beta test have been notified that the test has been "restarted" under the old name "Windows Vista, Longhorn Server... Read more...

Windows Server Longhorn August 2006 CTP Available

Steven Parker — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:32:12 +0100

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Hot on the heels of Windows Vista RC1, we have now released the August 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP)of Windows Server "Longhorn". It's available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers to download. Marked as Build 5560,... Read more...

Microsoft promises XenSource support in Longhorn

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:49:00 +0100

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Microsoft and XenSource are to co-develop technology to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and Windows hypervisor-based Windows Server virtualisation. The software giant claimed that the resulting technology will offer a single virtualisation technology that will... Read more...

Windows Vista Beta 2 / Longhorn Server Update (KB919946)

Steven Parker — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:50:18 +0100

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Microsoft have started releasing updates during the Windows Vista/Longhorn beta, this one is of particular interest due to the fact that many people -including myself, have a hyper-threaded system with Windows Vista Beta 2 installed... Read more...

Microsoft To Enforce VLK Compliance For Vista and Longhorn

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:01:15 +0100

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Enterprise customers can forget about the honor system Microsoft has in place for reporting Windows licenses they consume. Starting with the release of Vista and "Longhorn" Windows server next year, customers will be required to... Read more...

Longhorn Server Follows Earlier Windows Server 200x Naming

Steven Parker — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:05:54 +0100

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Naming a baby is always difficult, let alone a new operating system. Many of us have heard the litany of names which were bandied about for Windows Longhorn, and most guessed something along the lines... Read more...

Microsoft To Ship Longhorn Server In Second Half Of 2007

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:20:28 +0100

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The next Longhorn server beta is due "shortly" but the final product won't ship until the second half of 2007. During his keynote at the Microsoft Management Summit 2006, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of... Read more...

Longhorn Server CTP program starts in April

Steven Parker — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:21:56 +0000

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Windows Server Devision Blog: One of the things we get asked a lot is when Longhorn Server will be released and when people will be able to get their hands on a new pre-release build.... Read more...

Longhorn Datacenter will have no extra virtualization costs

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:17:07 +0000

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Today virtualization is expensive for licensing. Microsoft asks peopleto license every OS installed on virtual machines, even if powered off. But something is changing. Since the release of Windows Server 2003... Read more...

Microsoft unveils focus for Longhorn Itanium

macstorm — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:47:20 +0100

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Microsoft on Friday dribbled out new details of its next Windows Server operating system (OS) release, revealing that the Itanium version would be optimized for three specific workloads -- database, custom applications and line-of-business applications... Read more...

Longhorn Server most likely to be named Windows Server 2007

Steven Parker — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:48:14 +0100

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A Microsoft spokesperson who has been following our coverage of Windows Vista over the last few days, contacted me in regard to the naming of Longhorn Server -the next version of Windows Server, that is... Read more...

Longhorn To Be Named 'Windows Vista'

Steven Parker — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:59:46 +0100

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Bob Stein has just posted that the next version Windows, currently codenamed 'Longhorn', will in fact be named Windows Vista. There is currently no confirmation or announcement from Microsoft on this, but as... Read more...

Microsoft Makes Longhorn Performance Promises

malebolgia — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:42:37 +0100

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For the past several years, Microsoft has been promising that Longhorn would deliver some substantial security, reliability and performance improvements. But until the worldwide partner conference in Minneapolis in mid-July, company officials had not quantified... Read more...