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04-01-2011, 03:40 AM
Microsoft seems to be making some behind-the-scenes adjustments to its line-up of low-end Windows Servers which are within the pipeline.Final 12 months,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus (http://www.office2010key.ca), Microsoft officials began pitching Windows Household Server (WHS) as not just a house fanatic item, but also like a low-end server alternative that may match the needs of tiny office/home office (SOHO) people — effectively creating WHS Microsoft;s new lowest-end server offering. Microsoft is within the midst of testing privately the next version of WHS,Office 2010 Home And Business Key (http://www.office-2010-key.co.uk), codenamed Vail.Rafael Rivera, of WithinWindows.com, blogged on Febraury 2 about another Microsoft product that;s in the making, codenamed Aurora. Aurora and Vail seem to share a number of components,Office 2010 X86 Key (http://www.office2010key.in/), according to his findings, including a common dashboard/console shared by the two products.Neowin.net unearthed more information about Aurora that points to it being the next version of Windows Modest Business Server (SBS). Windows Modest Business Server (SBS) is tailored for use by 75 customers max. It is a bundle of Windows Server, Exchange, Internet Information Services Web server, and Windows SharePoint Service and Outlook. There;s a unified management console, integrated setup and other common elements tying these components together.
I asked Microsoft officials late last year about when they might test and ship the version of SBS based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and they declined to comment in any way. I thought that was kind of suspicious, but maybe it was just Windows client;s fondness for secrecy creeping into the Server division, I thought….WHS and SBS aren;t the only low-end offerings in Microsoft;s server family. Microsoft also has another “budget”/low-end server,Office 2010 Pro (http://www.office-2010-key.co.uk), Windows Server Foundation. At the same time as it released Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 to manufacturing,Office 2010 Standard Keygen (http://www.msoffice2010key.com), Microsoft also introduced Windows Server Foundation 2008 R2 as its latest version of a small-business-targeted server product that is available pre-installed on machines from Microsoft;s partners. The R2 Foundation release is available on single-processor servers from Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lenovo, NEC and Touch Dynamic.When Microsoft rolled out the initial version of Windows Server Foundation (codenamed Lima) in April 2009, CEO Steve Ballmer called it the equivalent of a netbook for servers. It is Microsoft;s entry-level, “budget” server offering. The original version had a 15-user limit and was aimed at small-business people in both developed and developing markets. The R2 version has the same target audience and same limitations.Is Microsoft;s new very low end line-up of servers for the coming year-plus going to get Vail/Windows Server Foundation 2008 R2/Aurora? Or is Microsoft got other plans for how to sell more servers in an economy where enterprise IT spending has yet to recover? Other thoughts/guesses? Meanwhile, anyone have any more information to share about Aurora?
I asked Microsoft officials late last year about when they might test and ship the version of SBS based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and they declined to comment in any way. I thought that was kind of suspicious, but maybe it was just Windows client;s fondness for secrecy creeping into the Server division, I thought….WHS and SBS aren;t the only low-end offerings in Microsoft;s server family. Microsoft also has another “budget”/low-end server,Office 2010 Pro (http://www.office-2010-key.co.uk), Windows Server Foundation. At the same time as it released Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 to manufacturing,Office 2010 Standard Keygen (http://www.msoffice2010key.com), Microsoft also introduced Windows Server Foundation 2008 R2 as its latest version of a small-business-targeted server product that is available pre-installed on machines from Microsoft;s partners. The R2 Foundation release is available on single-processor servers from Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lenovo, NEC and Touch Dynamic.When Microsoft rolled out the initial version of Windows Server Foundation (codenamed Lima) in April 2009, CEO Steve Ballmer called it the equivalent of a netbook for servers. It is Microsoft;s entry-level, “budget” server offering. The original version had a 15-user limit and was aimed at small-business people in both developed and developing markets. The R2 version has the same target audience and same limitations.Is Microsoft;s new very low end line-up of servers for the coming year-plus going to get Vail/Windows Server Foundation 2008 R2/Aurora? Or is Microsoft got other plans for how to sell more servers in an economy where enterprise IT spending has yet to recover? Other thoughts/guesses? Meanwhile, anyone have any more information to share about Aurora?