Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO, rallied the faithful today at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference with a variety of announcements. Heading the bill, “Turner announced that Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 will launch together at an event in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008.” (You may know Visual Studio 2008 as “Orcas” and SQL Server 2008 as “Katmai.”) Unsurprisingly, a lot of PR hoopla is planned for partners and in general.
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July 13th, 2007 at 10:18 AM
[...] Microsoft’s announcement this week that “Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 will launch together at an event in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008″ has lead to a dust-up over whether Windows Server 2008 (formerly Longhorn) is late or not. Joe Wilcox says “I told ya so” and that it’s late because the launch isn’t in 2007. Microsoft’s Windows Server Division Weblog responds that there’s no delay since ”Windows Server 2008 is still scheduled to be released by the end of 2007.” Tom Sanders suggests that Microsoft is in denial. [...]