Longhorn

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February 21, 2007 3 min read

February 2007 CTP of Windows Server “Longhorn” Released

As a number of sites and blogs have reported, last weekend we posted another Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of WindowsServer “Longhorn” to the Microsoft Connect site for our TechBeta participants.

December 11, 2006 1 min read

Better Together – The David and David Show

If you’re going to do a webcast about how Windows Vista and Windows Server “Longhorn” are great on their own, but even better together, then there’s no point in having only one presenter do it.

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December 6, 2006 1 min read

NEC Demos Dynamic Partitioning of CPU and Memory using Longhorn Server

NEC’s news release today says the following: NEC Corporation today announced it has demonstrated the world’s first dynamic partitioning of CPU and memory resources on the Beta 2 version of Microsoft Windows Server, code-named “Longhorn,” using NEC’s enterprise server Express5800/1320Xf.

November 17, 2006 2 min read

Windows PowerShell and Windows Server “Longhorn”

Last Tuesday in front of over 4000 attendees, Jeffrey Snover and Bob Muglia announced the release of Windows PowerShell 1.

July 6, 2006 1 min read

Other Rejected Longhorn Server Names

As a follow-up to my last post regarding the official name of Windows Server code name “Longhorn”, I thought it might be interesting for people to see some other names that have been touted during our brainstorming meetings, but that will never see the light of day… Windows Live Server Windows Bob Server Windows Server, […]

June 28, 2006 1 min read

Announcement – the Official Name for Windows Server “Longhorn”…

…will NOT be “Windows Vista Server”.

April 25, 2006 1 min read

Monad’s new name – Windows PowerShell

Today at the Microsoft Management Summit, Bob Muglia announced the new name for our new task-based command line shell and scripting language: Windows PowerShell (What do you think – like it?) Formerly known under the code-name “Monad”, Windows PowerShell is now at the Release Candidate (RC1) milestone and will be fully baked in Q4 of […]