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Microsoft is feting its 'best-selling version of Windows server ever.' So, what's Redmond going to do for an encore?
On April 24, Windows Server 2003 turned 1 year old. Microsoft officials say the product has sold like hotcakes. And last week's third-quarter financials, driven by strong Windows Server licensing sales, underscored that message.
Microsoft won't release specifics as to how many Windows Server 2003 licenses it has sold since the product launched, other than to say that Windows Server 2003 now constitutes 75 percent of its Windows server sales mix.
But Al Gillen, system software research director at IDC, said Server 2003 comprised 45 percent of the Windows licenses sold worldwide in the past year. (Windows Server 2000 and a few NT 4.0 licenses constituted the bulk of the rest of the Windows server shipments during the past year.)
"Windows Server [2003] continues to defy the laws of gravity," Gillen said. "The operating system saw good uptake, and why not? It's a second-generation product that is better, faster and more reliable."
So, what's Redmond got up its sleeve to keep the Windows Server momentum going?
Microsoft isn't yet ready to talk about that, company officials said. But other sources are—including beta testers, analysts and Windows customers.
The next major deliverable item from the Windows Server team will be the Microsoft Virtual Server (MVS), which is due out in the second half of this year. Microsoft will tout MVS, which is based on technology that Microsoft acquired when it purchased Connectix last year, in part as a tool to aid users interested in migrating their NT 4.0 applications to Windows Server 2003.
MVS, officially named "Microsoft Virtual Server 2005," went to private beta testers in February of this year.
Also due out by the end of this year is Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Currently in beta test, SP1 includes fixes plus a number of new features.
For one, Service Pack 1 will include a number of the Service Pack 2 enhancements that Microsoft plans to deliver as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2, including Remote Procedure Call (RPC), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and firewall enhancements. It also will include new network-quarantine and inspected-environment security capabilities, Microsoft officials have said.
And Microsoft is expected to make a number of its 64-bit Windows Server ports available simultaneously with SP1. These include Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition for Intel's 64-bit Extended and Itanium processors and Windows Server 2003 Extended Edition for AMD 64-bit Extended processors.
In early May, Microsoft plans to kick off a 64-bit evangelism road show, called the Route 64 Windows Technology Tour. The series of one-day seminars are aimed at developers writing applications to take advantage of 64-bit Windows horsepower on both the desktop and server. On the agenda are overviews of Microsoft's new 64-bit flavors of XP, Windows Server 2003, the .Net Framework and SQL Server "Yukon."
On April 24, Windows Server 2003 turned 1 year old. Microsoft officials say the product has sold like hotcakes. And last week's third-quarter financials, driven by strong Windows Server licensing sales, underscored that message.
Microsoft won't release specifics as to how many Windows Server 2003 licenses it has sold since the product launched, other than to say that Windows Server 2003 now constitutes 75 percent of its Windows server sales mix.
But Al Gillen, system software research director at IDC, said Server 2003 comprised 45 percent of the Windows licenses sold worldwide in the past year. (Windows Server 2000 and a few NT 4.0 licenses constituted the bulk of the rest of the Windows server shipments during the past year.)
"Windows Server [2003] continues to defy the laws of gravity," Gillen said. "The operating system saw good uptake, and why not? It's a second-generation product that is better, faster and more reliable."
So, what's Redmond got up its sleeve to keep the Windows Server momentum going?
Microsoft isn't yet ready to talk about that, company officials said. But other sources are—including beta testers, analysts and Windows customers.
The next major deliverable item from the Windows Server team will be the Microsoft Virtual Server (MVS), which is due out in the second half of this year. Microsoft will tout MVS, which is based on technology that Microsoft acquired when it purchased Connectix last year, in part as a tool to aid users interested in migrating their NT 4.0 applications to Windows Server 2003.
MVS, officially named "Microsoft Virtual Server 2005," went to private beta testers in February of this year.
Also due out by the end of this year is Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Currently in beta test, SP1 includes fixes plus a number of new features.
For one, Service Pack 1 will include a number of the Service Pack 2 enhancements that Microsoft plans to deliver as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2, including Remote Procedure Call (RPC), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and firewall enhancements. It also will include new network-quarantine and inspected-environment security capabilities, Microsoft officials have said.
And Microsoft is expected to make a number of its 64-bit Windows Server ports available simultaneously with SP1. These include Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition for Intel's 64-bit Extended and Itanium processors and Windows Server 2003 Extended Edition for AMD 64-bit Extended processors.
In early May, Microsoft plans to kick off a 64-bit evangelism road show, called the Route 64 Windows Technology Tour. The series of one-day seminars are aimed at developers writing applications to take advantage of 64-bit Windows horsepower on both the desktop and server. On the agenda are overviews of Microsoft's new 64-bit flavors of XP, Windows Server 2003, the .Net Framework and SQL Server "Yukon."
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