Windows Server 2003 News Archive

Redmond Magazine (February 3, 2005): "The news is good," according to Redmond Magazine. Read this editorial to find out why Windows Server 2003 SP1, which includes such features as the Security Configuration Wizard, is winning high praise.

Windows Server System Magazine (October 4, 2004) Use Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, to obtain the highest levels of availability and performance...Given the proper configuration, Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, can replace all of your standalone servers and give you the performance and availability levels you used to get from character-based mainframes.

InternetNews.com (August 20, 2004): Microsoft Corp. is quietly working on a new initiative, internally code-named Mission Critical Microsoft, to help fight the rising specter of Linux running on enterprise mainframes.

InternetNews.com (July 20, 2004): "You have to look beyond just the features and look for new applications for the server itself," Cherry said. "We're saying the improvements they made in performance, availability and storage -- all of these little incremental improvements -- add up to a scenario where it finally makes sense to look at server consolidation."

Windows in Financial Services (June 18, 2004): Some of the toughest computing challenges in the world are tackled and often solved by using high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Companies can now cost efficiently deploy clusters of servers running Windows Server 2003 to benefit from supercomputing power.

Inform IT (June 18, 2004): "Windows Server 2003 has the easiest and most intuitive installation procedure of any Microsoft operating system to date. However, the server will not install itself. This sample book chapter walks you through the key decisions and helps you make the correct choices for your environment."

CRN (June 15, 2004): With its "straightforward and uncomplicated" installation, remote installation features, and virtual networking capabilities, Microsoft's virtual server product "seems to be on the right track."

eWEEK (June 14, 2004): SP1 for Windows Server 2003 will use templates and automation based on server roles to improve and streamline security capabilities.

ENT (May 27, 2004): Code-named "R2," the release will build on previous feature packs while also incorporating brand-new functionality.

SuperSite for Windows (May 26, 2004): This in-depth interview covers key initiatives, server workloads, the Windows Server release cycle, details on SP1 content, x64, R2 features, SBS updates, as well as plans for Longhorn and Blackcomb.

CRN (May 5, 2004): The company also announced the release of an Enhanced Driver Development Kit for the 64-bit Extended environment, which is expected to spur application development.

Computerworld (May 3, 2004): A recent announcement by Unisys unveiled upgrades to its ES7000 line and outlined its own research demonstrating the high-availability of servers running Datacenter Edition.

Windows and .NET Magazine (May 2004): Get up to speed quickly with this concise overview of Microsoft's Unix interoperability tool.

CRN (April 12, 2004): Channel partners applaud the debut of a lower-cost management solution.

eWEEK (April 9, 2004): Improved logon features among those making systems more secure and administration simpler.

Internet News (April 7, 2004): The Community Solutions Content Program for Microsoft Knowledge Base allows certified MVPs to add content to Microsoft's database of technical and how-to articles.

eWEEK (April 6, 2004): Learn about the improvements to IIS, Active Directory, and File and Print capabilities that helped Windows Server 2003 win in the category of Best E-Business Foundation.

Windows and .NET Magazine (March 23, 2004): Discover the benefits of this important update, formerly known as Software Update Services, for users of Windows Server 2003.

CRN (February 27, 2004): RSA Security and Microsoft have agreed to develop a token-based solution for Microsoft Windows. In addition, VeriSign recently announced it is working with Microsoft to combine Windows Server 2003 with VeriSign's authentication services.

Network World (February 23, 2004): Find out why Windows Server 2003 was awarded top honors in the operating system category.

InfoWorld (January 23, 2004): The new release boosts the performance of bundled tools and compiled apps enormously. The single-rooted emulated file system eliminates the need to specify DOS drive letters. The free download includes the latest versions of the GNU development tools along with support for clustering, Windows 2003 shadow copy, and Unix threads.

PC Magazine (January 20, 2004): Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, along with the .NET Framework, is a strong base for any IT organization's deployment and development needs. Support for up to eight CPUs and 32GB of memory address space ... makes this release the most versatile yet.

CRN (January 12, 2004): See why Microsoft Windows Small Business Server has become a huge success with partners and customers.

LinuxWorld (January 15, 2004): See judges and industry experts recognize SFU 3.5 as one of the finest system integration solutions.

InfoWorld (January 6, 2004): Microsoft Corporation has made broadly available a beta version of its Windows Server 2003 for systems using the Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) 64-bit Opteron processor.

PC Magazine (November 19, 2003): See how Windows Small Business Server was recognized for giving small businesses the power of Windows Server 2003 without the complexity.

USA Today (November 17, 2003): "... Given how easy the interact with one another and that they are easy to use and learn, and most of all, given that I have seen small businesses grow as a result, I can safely say that Microsoft's Office SBE and Small Business Server are great additions to any small business."

eWeek (November 7, 2003): According to eWEEK Labs' look at the prerelease software: "... any organization that is evaluating mobile management systems should immediately put the $1,219 SMS 2003 on its short list."

CRN (November 7, 2003): Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, however, stands to enrich small-business networks with innovative technologies once found only in enterprise solutions, the CRN Test Center found.

Forbes (October 9, 2003): Instead of dedicating different computers to different server tasks, the Small Business Server software is designed to be loaded onto one server computer with networking, e-mail, secure Internet tools, file and printer sharing, as well as backup capabilities straight out of the box.

CRN (October 1, 2003): Microsoft's long-awaited launch of its Windows 2003-based Small Business Server next week is designed to cut Linux off at the knees in its SMB territory, according to company executives.

TechNewsWorld (September 26, 2003): "Perhaps the one item that comes closest to the breakthrough category is the recently announced pricing for the Small Business Server," said Dave Howard, president of development and consulting firm Colorado Software Architects. "The new pricing is more than 50 percent less than the Windows 2000 Small Business Server, and its $500 price point ... certainly makes Linux pricing less of an issue."

CNET (September 10, 2003): Hewlett-Packard and Veritas are announcing products tailored for the new Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 operating system.

Network World (September 8, 2003): "ADS is a small piece of DSI, but Microsoft is headed in the right direction," says Paul Wimmer, lead system developer for Rackspace. A San Antonio, Texas, company that hosts servers for corporate customers.

CRN (September 5, 2003): Microsoft came out so far ahead that the CRN Test Center believes (WSS) Windows SharePoint Services will ultimately become the dominant collaboration platform. In fact, the Test Center predicts that WSS 2.0's unmatched breadth of Office integration and operating system interactivity will reshape the contextual collaboration space for years to come.

Network World (September 3, 2003): ADS is just the tip of an ambitious multi-year, multi-stage plan Microsoft unveiled in March called the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), which is designed to create a platform to support a self-managing environment built around applications that can communicate their management needs to the network.

CRN (August 26, 2003): Solution providers said Microsoft is rising to the challenge posed by Novell and Linux in the fast-growing small-business server space.

.NET Magazine (August 2003): Even with improved security in Windows Server 2003, administrators need to stay vigilant to create secure networks.

InfoWorld (July 25, 2003): Discover why Windows Server 2003 was voted best operating system in InfoWorld's 2003 Readers' Choice Awards.

CNET News.com (July 18, 2003): A survey has found that use of Microsoft's latest server software is growing quickly in the Web site hosting market, and that much of the new business is at the expense of Linux.

ENT News (July 17, 2003): Researchers...say Windows Server 2003 is closing in on its 100,000th active Web site in the three months since the launch of Microsoft's latest operating system.

TechTarget (July 15, 2003): Microsoft enhanced its technology that offers single sign-on capability and presented it with little fanfare when Windows Server 2003 started shipping in late April. Internet Authentication Service (IAS) centrally authenticates and accounts for the remote access infrastructure of an enterprise.

SuperSite for Windows (July 8, 2003): This time around, the product has been polished with better installation and deployment tools, simpler and more elegant management capabilities, and new features suggested by users, such as better backup and restore tools, and security-related functionality.

Windows & .NET Magazine (July 1, 2003): SBS 2003 enhances the features customers have always enjoyed about previous SBS version, including its easy-to-use and attractive administrative consoles and simple end-user access points, but adds a number of new features geared toward remote administration and users, backup, and other functionality requested by users.

Computer Reseller News (June 30, 2003): With the introduction of Microsoft's Small Business Server 2003, the company has demonstrated that its focus on the small-business market hasn't waned. Solution providers will find that the product is evolutionary in nature as opposed to revolutionary.

Computer Reseller News (June 30, 2003): "The two-SKU idea is great," said Eliot Sennet, president of ESI Enterprises, Newton, Mass., a small-business solution provider. "Not too many of our Small Business Server clients have taken advantage of the SQL Server or ISA Server components of Small Business Server."

eWeek (June 30, 2003): The place where users get incremental value with Office 2003 is in the SharePoint scenario. As the product stresses simplicity, Microsoft is hoping that this will be the server release that breaks down the server adoption barriers in small businesses and help drive that adoption.

Windows in Financial Services (Summer 2003): Microsoft launched its new enterprise platform, Windows Server 2003, at the end of April with a number of financial services implementations that demonstrate the new operating system's value in securities, banking, and insurance.

WinInfo (June 20, 2003): Later this year, Microsoft will release a dramatically improved Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 (code-named Bobcat) family of products to satisfy the needs of small businesses that have no inhouse IT staff.

WinInfo (May 9, 2003): In a recent test comparing Windows Server 2003 to various Linux versions, Microsoft's latest server OS tromped the competition by 66 to 100 percent in various file server-related performance tests. The test, performed by VeriTest and prepared under contract by Microsoft, found that Windows 2003 significantly outperformed Linux.

eWeek (May 6, 2003): The technology is going to help primarily with the moving of legacy applications up to the current version of the operating system. The other thing it will help with is server consolidation, where these legacy business applications use only some 10 percent of the server that they run on.

.NET Magazine (May 2003): Feature improvements in Windows Server 2003 make way for a better storage future.

The Register (April 28, 2003): Microsoft deserves kudos for Win2k3's security posture, and "secure by default" is an standard every business should strive for, no matter what they're selling.

Information Week (April 28, 2003): With resource-strapped companies continuing to scrutinize every IT dollar, is this the right time to introduce a new server operating system? That's a question Steve Ballmer says he's been asked a lot recently--and one he'll soon be able to answer.

Computer Reseller News (April 24, 2003): Upgrade represents Microsoft's best NOS to date, test center finds.

Network World Fusion (April 21, 2003): This version of the server operating system has much more to warm up to than 2000 Advanced Server, and lives gracefully in an ever-more heterogeneous network world.

Information Week (April 21, 2003): Business-technology managers who don't want to pay premium prices for 64-bit RISC systems running Unix now have a lower-cost alternative.

Information Security (April 2003): Microsoft promised Windows Server 2003 would be, "secure by design, secure by default and secure in deployment." We took the wrapper off this new OS to see if it lives up to expectations.

SuperSite for Windows (April 8, 2003): After this barrage of information, subsequent meetings with Microsoft, and months of work with Windows Server 2003, one thing is clear: Windows Server has grown up dramatically since the early NT days, and it now scales up to the most scalable and advanced hardware on the planet.

SuperSite for Windows (April 2003): Windows Server 2003's new features make it enterprise ready, but taking full advantage of them requires a significant migration effort.

Infoworld (March 31, 2003): Our experiences with what we are assured is the gold code confirmed that this is indeed the best version of Windows to come out of the gate. Improved performance, better management tools, and a rapidly maturing directory service give customers something to look forward to when they take the plunge.

Tech Target (March 31, 2003): As Microsoft prepares to launch its Windows Server 2003 on April 24, some of the product's biggest benefits will come from a workhorse part of the server software that rarely gets noticed for its contribution to OS efficiency.

Computer Reseller News (March 28, 2003): Improvements aimed at migrators include enhancements to the Active Directory migration tool. Upgraders now have the ability to import not only user names, but also passwords from the earlier NOSes, greatly reducing deployment support costs.

CNET (March 17, 2003): Microsoft on Tuesday will announce new software intended to ease the management of business PCs and servers...Microsoft will unveil its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), a new self-managing software architecture that competes with similar products from Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.

Computerworld (March 17, 2003): Microsoft Corp. plans to adjust its per-processor licensing model to provide relief for customers that run its software on partitioned servers, a Microsoft executive said last week.

ENT Magazine (March 10, 2003): Microsoft is gearing up to launch Windows Server 2003 next month. The April 24 launch will be the result of a three-year effort since the February 2000 launch of Windows 2000. In other words, it's finally time to pay attention. The details of the operating system are now set, and it's possible to evaluate what they mean for your organization.

ENT News (March 4, 2003): Most editions of Windows Server 2003 will cost the same as their Windows 2000 counterparts, while the new Web Edition, which is designed to compete with Linux, will cost less than half as much as the Standard Edition, Microsoft revealed Monday.

eWeek (March 3, 2003): Microsoft Corp. on Monday finally released the licensing and pricing options for its upcoming Windows Server 2003 family, which is slated for shipment in late April. The licensing model consists of a server operating system license and incremental Client Access Licenses (CALs) "and is designed to allow for complete scalability of your cost in relation to your usage," Microsoft said.

.NET Magazine (March 2003): Windows Server 2003 Active Directory offers new features to simplify identity and application management in the enterprise.

InfoWorld (February 28, 2003): You may have not noticed, but Microsoft is playing a fairly significant role in the storage market. The Redmond, Wash.-based software supernova came out of practically nowhere to capture nearly 30 percent of the NAS market, according to IDC, since the introduction of its WPN (Windows Powered NAS) two years ago. This summer, it'll release Version 3.0, as well as a Web download that augments the forthcoming .NET server to support iSCSI.

Computerworld (February 24, 2003): Microsoft last week acquired two established client products from privately held Connectix, in addition to the beta version of the San Mateo, Calif.-based company's Virtual Server software. The Virtual PC for Windows software lets users run multiple PC-based operating systems and applications simultaneously on a single workstation.

CRN (February 21, 2003): Microsoft's acquisition of Connectix's virtualization software last week is expected to make Windows a better server consolidation and migration platform. Channel partners applauded the acquisition, saying it will help them push reluctant NT customers to migrate to Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003, which is due in April.

InformationWeek (February 18, 2003): InformationWeek posed a few questions, via E-mail, to Bill Veghte, corporate VP of Microsoft's Windows Server Division. Here are his answers.

eWeek (February 12, 2003): Addressing a small group of attendees at Microsoft's Mountain View campus on Wednesday afternoon, Bill Veghte, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Windows Server group, committed to making the virtual datacenter an industry-wide initiative.

Internetweek (February 11, 2003): New support options for Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, version of the software, the most powerful version, supporting up to 64 processors. With the upcoming version, enterprises will be able to get support for systems from Microsoft itself, resellers, and systems integrators.

InformationWeek (February 10, 2003): Microsoft's ambitious goal with its new service offerings is to make its systems available 99.999% of the time, allowing no more than five minutes of downtime a year.

Internetweek.com (February 5, 2003): Microsoft claims it has achieved 40 percent greater uptime for Windows Server 2003 in internal tests than for Windows 2000.

CNET (January 14, 2003): Microsoft will share the source code underlying its Windows operating system with several international governments, a move designed to address concerns about the security of the OS.

Computerworld (January 13, 2003): Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. is venturing where few, if any, companies have gone before. The St. Louis-based firm plans to deliver Microsoft Office and internally developed car rental applications to 5,000 branch locations equipped with Windows CE-based terminals. Those thin-client devices will access the applications through the enhanced Terminal Services features in Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming release of Windows Server 2003.

eWeek (January 9, 2003): Microsoft Corp. on Thursday moved to further clarify the naming and branding strategy around its .Net, or software-as-a-service strategy. The Redmond, Wash., software firm told staff and partners this week that its goal with the move is to help customers easily identify those products that interoperate and connect through Web service standards.

PC Magazine (January 1, 2003): In many ways, .NET Server 2003 Standard Edition can be considered a milestone in Microsoft's product line. Most of the code, regardless of feature improvements, has been overhauled and its security tightened. The company has put a strong emphasis on leaving an upgrade path open to existing customers running Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server or Windows NT Server 4.0.

WinInformant (January 2003): Now might be the time to look at migration paths to the new OS. Six basic migration scenarios exist—three each for Windows 2000 Server and Windows NT Server 4.0. The three main roles for each of these OS versions are a file and printer server, a Web server, and an application server.

eWeek (December 23, 2002): The new GPMC provides a centralized user interface that integrates Group Policy management functions with robust new features that make it much easier to manage GPOs.

Computerworld (December 23, 2002): As the clock runs down on the final 12 months of Microsoft Corp.'s support for Windows NT 4.0, many IT professionals must make a critical decision: Should they migrate systems to Microsoft Windows 2000 or to Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003?

Information Week (December 9, 2002): Final testing of Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system has begun. Microsoft says the software should ship in April. An earlier test version was downloaded from Microsoft.com 350,000 times, company executives say, indicating interest that matches all earlier versions of Windows.

CNET News.com (December 3, 2002): Linux is more expensive to administer than Windows, a factor that makes Windows less expensive overall in most server uses. The study polled 104 North American companies and evaluated costs for networked server computers supporting 100 users over a five-year period.

Computerworld (December 2, 2002): Microsoft Corp. today outlined licensing changes that will take effect next April with the shipment of its Windows Server 2003 operating system. At that time, customers will gain a new option of purchasing client-access licenses on a per-user basis.

CNET News.com (November 22, 2002): The coming Windows Server 2003 version of the Windows operating system, combined with the faster Intel servers on which it will run, has spurred Microsoft to develop enterprise solutions.

TechTarget (November 20, 2002): Even though Microsoft has applied its misunderstood .NET moniker to the next edition of its server operating system, one expert said that Windows Server 2003 is still worthy of consideration, especially for companies that have fallen behind the upgrade curve.

WinInformant (November 19, 2002): Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows Server 2003 will hit the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) milestone within 2 weeks. The company will publicly launch the product in April 2003.

ENT Magazine (November 18, 2002): Hewlett-Packard Co. is running Windows Server 2003 64-bit Datacenter Edition on a massive Superdome server with 64 processors and 512 GB of RAM.

Advisor.com (November 18, 2002): Microsoft is positioning the product as the natural upgrade for customers running Windows NT 4.0 Server, and promises improved security, performance, and reliability. Windows Server 2003 also includes a set of Web application services designed to help developers launch connected applications quickly.

TechTarget.com/SearchWin2000.com (November 18, 2002): Core elements of Windows Server 2003 improvements include: thread scheduling, which prioritizes CPU resources for specific tasks; better memory management, which reduces CPU memory calls; boosted performance on the disk subsystem; and the ability to support more users on the network.

ENT Magazine (November 18, 2002): In advance of the RC2 release, Microsoft has also finalized packaging of the new server operating system, and the announcement held a few surprises, especially for the high-end Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition.

NetworkWorld (November 18, 2002): Network executives say the latest slippage in the ship date for Windows Server 2003 is unfortunate but not bothersome, and see the operating system as the beginning of a whole new way to integrate resources.

TechRepublic (October 24, 2002): With Microsoft about to issue a second release candidate of its upcoming Windows Server 2003, many companies have begun evaluating the new platform in earnest.

ENT Magazine (October 22, 2002): Stratus Technologies upped the ante on uptime guarantees this week with an offer promising 100 percent uptime on Windows servers.

Supersite for Windows (October 2002): "... the newest generation of Microsoft's family of server operating systems offers myriad small improvements over the previous generation, Windows 2000 Server. And like its predecessor, Windows Server 2003 brings with it some important choices for IT administrators, corporate decision makers, and anyone else with a stake in purchasing, deploying and supporting Microsoft server solutions."

Windows & .NET Magazine (October 2002): The Windows Server OS has grown up dramatically since Windows NT's early days. First, the Windows Server 2003 family includes a wider range of products than does the Windows 2000 Server family. Second, Microsoft hopes that improvements in what it terms "abilities"—reliability, availability, scalability, interoperability, security, and manageability—will make the product viable in the data center market.

Computer Reseller News (October 2002): Solution providers servicing the SMB market are often faced with challenges such as availability and reducing support costs. Solution providers should look no further than leveraging the capabilities of VPN technology to attack these issues head on.

CNET (October 2002): Microsoft is putting finishing touches on its second release candidate of Windows Server 2003, sources say. The focus is being put on security.

ENT News (October 10, 2002): Microsoft corporate vice president and CIO Rick Devenuti is seeing several benefits from an internal early deployment of Windows Server 2003 and expecting others with the Exchange Titanium release.

ENT News (October 9, 2002): "The whole idea is to simply high performance computing, so you have Windows operating systems all across the desktops," Callahan says. "So why not standardize from the lowest end to the highest end, the idea being [that] that would lead to simplified administration, reduced TCO and increased performance?"

CRN (October 9, 2002): Microsoft officially announced two new storage technologies and other Windows Server innovations that will debut for Windows Server 2003. Due in early 2003 will offer new enterprise file system and storage features including Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) and Virtual Disk Service (VDS).

eWeek (October 9, 2002): Microsoft Corp. Tuesday announced new storage management middleware and numerous storage hardware partners for its upcoming Windows Server 2003 release. The new software, Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service, came to light earlier this year and were publicly discussed at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in April.

.NET Magazine (October 9, 2002): Microsoft understands the need to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and is striving to provide that capability for its customers. Second, adding business value is about getting connected, which Microsoft will deliver with Web services and .NET.

eWeek (October 8, 2002): While Microsoft has previously offered individual tools to help in this regard—such as its Services for UNIX software, which allows greater operability between existing UNIX-based enterprise systems and Windows on both the server and desktop—the idea now is to provide greater support and services around these migrations.

WinInfo (September 24, 2002): Market researcher International Data Corporation (IDC) issued a report Monday, in which it notes that Microsoft's share of the usually staid server market jumped dramatically. Microsoft, which owned 41 percent of the market in 2000, saw its market share rise to 49 percent in 2001. IDC noted that Microsoft's success came thanks to Windows 2000 Server adoption.

InfoWorld (September 24, 2002): Linux is the only serious threat to Microsoft's increasing dominance of the market for server operating systems, according to new research from IDC. Microsoft's share of new server operating environment license shipments grew from just under 42 percent in 2000 to nearly 49 percent in 2001. In the server OS market, Linux held the number-two position behind Microsoft in 2001, accounting for 25.7 percent of new license shipments, according to IDC.

CNET (September 23, 2002): The Redmond, Wash.-based company's market share for shipments of new server operating system licenses jumped to 49 percent in 2001 from 42 percent in 2000, according to a research report released by IDC on Monday.

ENT Magazine (September 10, 2002): At its Windows Server 2003 DevCon conference last week, Microsoft Corp. demonstrated 64-bit versions of its forthcoming Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition and SQL Server products running on a 32-way Itanium 2-based ES7000 system designed by Unisys Corp.

CNET (September 9, 2002): A $4.6 million NEC server using Microsoft Windows has grabbed high marks in a closely watched performance ranking traditionally dominated by machines running the Unix operating system.

InfoWorld (September 6, 2002): Rather than develop a separate application server, as companies such as BEA Systems and IBM have done, Microsoft is positioning its upcoming Windows Server 2003 operating system as having all the functionality needed for deploying Internet applications and Web services. The key to Microsoft's strategy is inclusion of UDDI Technology in the operating system, enabling publishing of a directory of available Web services, and enabling subscription to those services.

ENT Magazine (September 5, 2002): Security remains a hot-button issue for Microsoft, as Brian Valentine, senior vice president for the Windows division at Microsoft, took center stage this morning at Windows Server DevCon in Seattle to tout Redmond's new "hardened" approach to software development.

ENT Magazine (September 4, 2002): Windows Server DevCon kicked off today in Seattle with Bill Veghte, corporate vice president for Microsoft, touting Windows Server 2003 as "the fastest, most reliable and most secure" operating system ever to come out of Redmond.

Windows & .NET Magazine (September, 2002): Administrators who made the transition from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 often faced an epic struggle, especially if they had already implemented a fairly complex NT-based domain.

Windows & .NET Magazine (September, 2002): There's nothing like the sweet smell of progress. In an effort to make its high-end Windows Datacenter product scale up and out even more than it does today, Microsoft is working on a new technology called Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA), which would speed Datacenter's data access on multiprocessor machines.

ENT Magazine (August 29, 2002): Microsoft changed the name of the family of server operating systems it plans to release next year to Windows Server 2003, company representatives said late Thursday. The new name is the fourth for the family of server operating systems.

InfoWorld (August 23, 2002): Microsoft is betting that Windows Server 2003 will get a spot on customers' crowded to-do lists. To make this happen, Microsoft has packed Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition RC1 (Release Candidate 1) with impressive new features.

eWeek (August 19, 2002): In eWeek Labs' tests, Windows Server 2003 showed major improvements in setup and management tools and better scalability with support for 64-bit computing.

PC Magazine (August 7, 2002): Slated for an end-of-year release, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (pricing not yet released) is nearly finished. This release candidate shows off a new focus on ease of administration and plenty of improvements for better performance and security, plus, of course, support for .NET.

InfoWorld (August 2, 2002): Windows Server 2003 is Microsoft's most ambitious effort yet to redefine enterprise computing. But unlike Microsoft's previous server operating systems, the .NET implementation is expected to form not only the optimal platform for all existing applications, but also for a range of as yet unimagined, loosely coupled apps that are today but a gleam in developers' eyes.

(September 5, 2002): Backed by industry-wide vendor support, Microsoft's Multipath I/O boosts availability, performance and interoperability of multivendor storage solutions while enhancing quality and expanding customer choice.

(May 8, 2002): At NetWorld+Interop 2002, Bill Veghte, corporate vice president for the Windows Server Group at Microsoft, announced that Windows 2000 Server leads server market growth, fueled by enterprise customer adoption. Veghte highlighted the success of customers and industry partners using Windows 2000 Server as an enterprise computing platform.

(May 8, 2002): At NetWorld+Interop 2002, Microsoft announced it has seen strong customer adoption of its Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory® directory service for use both inside and outside the corporate firewall. Customers are deploying Active Directory for identity management of millions of users in Internet and extranet environments.

(May 8, 2002): Windows 2000 is the leading operating system for enterprise servers, and Windows Server 2003 is the wave of the future. Bill Veghte traces the evolution of the Windows platform from Microsoft Windows NT® to Windows  Server 2003.