Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2008 Professional Edition is a comprehensive set of tools that accelerates the process of turning the developer’s vision into reality. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition was engineered to support development projects that target the Web (including ASP.NET AJAX), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, The 2007 Microsoft Office system, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Mobile-based devices.

The professional web design tool from Microsoft, Microsoft^® Expression^TM Web 2 helps you unleash your creative vision and build dynamic, interactive pages that harness the power of the Web to deliver superior quality, accessibility and cross-browser compatibility. Meanwhile, it also helps you reduce complexity, and ease data integration by using design tools and task panes to design for ASP.NET, PHP and XML for precise control of page layout and formatting.

Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Team System 2008 Team Suite provides multi-disciplined team members with an integrated set of tools for architecture, design, development, database development and testing of applications. Team members can continuously collaborate and utilize a complete set of tools and guidance at every step of the application life cycle.

With Windows Server^® 2008, everything needed to support server virtualization is available as an integral feature of the operating system-Windows Server^® 2008 Hyper-V^TM. With Hyper-V, the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, as a role, plus flexible licensing policies, it's now easier than ever to take advantage of the cost savings of virtualization through Windows Server 2008. This enables you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine and also efficiently run multiple different operating systems-Windows, Linux, and others-in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.

With Microsoft^® Expression^TM Studio 2, you can bring your passion for design to both the Windows-based desktop and the web by utilizing the power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Build web applications that work virtually everywhere. Create website experiences with a focus on industry standards and new levels of usability. Expression Studio 2, where art meets science and form meets function.

Virtualization is much more than simply consolidating physical servers and cutting data center costs. At Microsoft, virtualization means helping IT departments maximize ROI and cost savings across the enterprise, and powerfully improving business continuity. That's why we created a portfolio of products that address all aspects of the physical and virtual infrastructure-servers, networks, applications, and desktops-across multiple hypervisors, and that can be easily managed through a centralized console.

Microsoft^®System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 is a straightforward and cost-effective solution for IT professionals responsible for managing virtual infrastructure, providing unified management of physical and virtual machines, consolidation of underutilized physical servers, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by leveraging the expertise and investments in Microsoft Windows Server technology.

Microsoft^® Silverlight^TM is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.

Office Communications Server 2007 delivers streamlined communications for your users so they can find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most.

Designed specifically to address enterprise and employee messaging system needs alike-while also being cost-effective to deploy and manage-Microsoft^® Exchange Server 2007 has been designed specifically to deliver the advanced protection your company demands, the anywhere access your people want, and the operational efficiency you, in IT, need.

A trusted, productive, and intelligent relational database management system, Microsoft^® SQL Server^® 2008 provides an enterprise-ready data platform for organizations to manage any data, any place, any time.