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Betanews | Technology News and IT Business Intelligence Slashdot Stories (10) Start Hardware Bladewatch.com -Bladewatch.com - » Empowering the end user community, tracking enterprise technology MyOpenRouter : The Open Source Wireless Initiatives Community Windows Server 2008's Enterprise Ambitions - InternetNews.com LOS ANGELES -- After devoting the first day of this week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) to the client, Windows 7, day two was centered around Windows Server 2008 R2. It might seem remarkable that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has a second service pack in the works, considering the OS shipped only this year. But even though it's talking up the release -- and handing out beta copies to WinHEC attendees and those who attended last week's Professional Developer Conference (PDC), R2 isn't expected until 2010. Still, the early talk of a release is part of a strategy first promised in 2003 by Bob Muglia, senior vice president of servers and tools at Microsoft. The idea is that every four years would see a new operating system, and there would be a significant overhaul at the halfway point to add new technologies and keep it reasonably fresh. So if R2 is on time, it will come two years after the release of Server 2008. "That's a hell of a laptop," Ralston joked.

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