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Microsoft Corp. is expected to announce on Friday that it has released the Windows Server 2003 family of products to manufacturing. This is the last engineering stage before the product family is widely released at an event in San Francisco on April 24.
Bill Veghte, the corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows Server group, is expected to announce the RTM tomorrow morning in an international media teleconference. He is also expected to give details of the exact product set and to say when the various SKUs (Web, Standard, 32-bit and 64-bit Enterprise, and 32-bit and 64-bit Datacenter) will start shipping preloaded on various servers, sources said.
A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to comment ahead of tomorrow's teleconference.
Microsoft has also previously said that it will deliver layered services, those components of Windows Server 2003 that were too late to make it into the final shipping product, at later dates. These components will run on top of Windows Server and will not require the operating system to be reinstalled.
They will be delivered later this year and in the first half of next year, and include the Real Time Communications and Collaboration Server; SharePoint Windows Services, the Group Policy Management Console, Windows Rights Management and Automated Deployment Services.
Veghte is also expected to address the issue of whether or not Microsoft intends to release a server version of Longhorn, its next-generation Windows release. Microsoft has been backpedaling since senior vice president Brian Valentine recently told the press that Microsoft is planning on doing a server version of Longhorn, its next-generation Windows release.
But, after those comments, Windows Server group product manager Bob O'Brien told Microsoft Watch that Brian was just thinking out loud…there are no plans for a Longhorn server. That is not on the boards and Longhorn will continue to be a Windows client release only.
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