Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0

Posted By: Rory | Sep 24th, 2007 @ 1:13 PM | 19,114 Views | 18 Comments

Alex Hinrichs runs the Windows Server ship room (you’ve met him before on C9). Jeff Woolsey is a senior program manager on the Virtualization team (you’ve met him before, too). Today, we announce the release of Windows Server 2008 RC0. RC0? What does that mean, exactly? Well, Alex sure knows… There are many new innovations in Windows Server 2008 not the least of which is our new built-in virtualization system, Hypervisor. Jeff explains… Then there’s server core, a stripped down UI-less version of the OS for those who prefer to run only the bare minimum subset of features to serve whatever their serving… Tune in to find out more about our next server OS and meet some of the folks that spend all of their time helping to make it our best ever. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear some very interesting news… Enjoy.
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#Sep 24th, 2007 @ 4:03 PM
roys
roys
No download links?  Not on connect or MSDN..
#Sep 24th, 2007 @ 4:41 PM
JChung2006
JChung2006
I'll ask the obvious:  why not just call this RC1?
#Sep 25th, 2007 @ 10:31 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
JChung2006 wrote:
I'll ask the obvious:  why not just call this RC1?


Did you watch the video?
#Sep 25th, 2007 @ 10:32 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
roys wrote:
No download links?  Not on connect or MSDN..


Here
#Sep 25th, 2007 @ 5:32 PM
JChung2006
JChung2006
Charles wrote:

JChung2006 wrote:I'll ask the obvious:  why not just call this RC1?


Did you watch the video?

I did.

Software people tend to get silly when it comes to versioning things:  alpha, beta, CTP, RC0, version 0.041a-1.  You think that you're communicating useful semantic information with these obtuse, cryptic designations when a simple version 1, 2, 3, etc. would suffice.

So again, why not just call this RC1?  Release Candidate means something to me.  1 means something to me.  0 means nothing to me in terms of versioning except perhaps a peculiar reluctance to commit to something being an actual release candidate, which is pretty much the opposite of what was said in the video.
#Sep 25th, 2007 @ 11:20 PM
androidi
androidi
Maybe it is because they did not code it in VB. Big Smile Big Smile Big Smile
#Sep 26th, 2007 @ 6:12 AM
rhatsaruck
rhatsaruck

Are the Standard and Enterprise downloads of the 32 bit version identical code? Is the same true for the Standard and Enterprise downloads of the 64 bit version?

No, I haven't seen the video yet.

#Sep 26th, 2007 @ 11:33 AM
ZippyV
ZippyV
Fired Up
I've looked around for this hypervisor thing but I can't find it anywhere. Help doesn't explain much except for stating the minimum requirements.
#Sep 27th, 2007 @ 9:14 AM
JasonOlson
JasonOlson
ZippyV wrote:
I've looked around for this hypervisor thing but I can't find it anywhere. Help doesn't explain much except for stating the minimum requirements.


Zippy, the Hypervisor is one of the enabling technologies for Windows Server Virtualization. The hypervisor is a technology that takes direct advantage of the new Intel-VT and AMD-V enabled chips. This allows you to have hardware-based virtualization in the CPU as the Hypervisor controls the entrance/exit of virtual machines directly in the CPU. This has many advantages over just performance.
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