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New SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Studio to Launch in February

By David Worthington

July 10, 2007 —

Mark the date. Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner announced today at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver that SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 will be jointly launched on Feb. 27.

The triple-play launch will kick off a series of worldwide events and mark the beginning of a broad outreach to IT professionals about the new products, as well as the training and online resources available to them.

Preview releases are being made available before the products are released to manufacturing. A second beta of Visual Studio 2008, formerly code-named Orcas, will ship later this summer.

Microsoft distributed a post Beta 3 Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Server 2008 last month, which introduced new Server Core installation options. And the latest SQL Server 2008 bits are available in the June CTP.

Visual Studio 2008 will be Microsoft's preferred IDE for building Windows Vista and Office 2007 "ribbon"-styled applications. Microsoft is also touting its Web development capabilities: Orcas is swimming with enhanced HTML, CSS designer and JavaScript support, and adds integrated AJAX support.

Other highlights are SharePoint extensions, the Expression design tools WYSIWYG designer, and an updated version of the .NET 3.0 Framework. The release expands data query and manipulation capabilities with Language Integrated Query (LINQ) support and can target multiple versions of the .NET Framework, starting from 2.0.

The top new features found in Windows Server 2008 are Server Core installation options, Windows Hardware Error Architecture, Windows Powershell and Windows Server Virtualization. Other enhancements include Address Space Load Randomization, clean service shutdown, Kernel Transaction Manager, parallel session creation, self-healing NTFS file system and the SMB2 network file system.

Server Core roles are specialized, low-footprint installations of Windows Server without the GUI; the new roles are those of media server, based on Windows Media Services, virtualization server, based on Windows Virtualization Services (code-named Viridian), and Web server, based on IIS (Internet Information Services) 7.

SQL Server 2008, code-named Katmai, will be more deeply integrated with Microsoft Office system front-end tools, will have more robust reporting capabilities, and will manage and accept non-relational data types, provide more advanced data warehousing capabilities, and support Microsoft’s next-generation ADO.NET data access framework.

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