BETA 3 of Windows Server Longhorn SHIPS

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04/25/2007

Today, Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” Beta3 was announced to the worldwide community of developers, IT Pros, and early-adopter customers. This is a major milestone in the products development, with the public availability of a very stable platform which will be deployed in various “go live” scenarios by early adopters. The exciting news that the final version of Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” is on track to release to manufacturing in second half of 2007. Let’s start getting the apps ready!!!!

One of the things that Jason onthe team has been working on for a while is that key things that light up Applications on Windows Server Longhorn. Took a while, but here are the 7 themes that we think are really important.

Build More Flexible Web Applications
Build Connected Systems
Develop “Single Sign-On” Identity-Aware Applications
Design Highly-Manageable Applications
Develop More Reliable Applications
Go Virtual
Build Scalable Applications

Jason has more details on his blog about this at https://blogs.msdn.com/jolson/archive/2007/04/26/top-ways-to-light-up-your-apps-on-windows-server-longhorn.aspx

One of the things that we had to rush today was a interview with Iain McDonald from the product team about the release. As laid back as ever.. https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=303636

To get the download of Windows Server "Longhorn" please go to https://www.microsoft.com/getbeta3/. This is the best location as it also sends you a the required product keys too.

If you just want to download the files, here are the pointers.

Windows Server “Longhorn” Standard Edition
English URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D9CC31D5-8AD2-4600-9CBE-855EFB357B10&displaylang=en
German URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D9CC31D5-8AD2-4600-9CBE-855EFB357B10&displaylang=de
Japanese URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D9CC31D5-8AD2-4600-9CBE-855EFB357B10&displaylang=ja

Windows Server “Longhorn” Enterprise Edition

English URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D97E2060-36AD-4EAA-8B0B-DAB2557B1EEF&displaylang=en

German URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D97E2060-36AD-4EAA-8B0B-DAB2557B1EEF&displaylang=de

Japanese URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D97E2060-36AD-4EAA-8B0B-DAB2557B1EEF&displaylang=ja

Windows Server “Longhorn” Datacenter Edition

English URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BC0A4B8F-22DD-4AF2-9897-42D08C5529AA&displaylang=en

German URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BC0A4B8F-22DD-4AF2-9897-42D08C5529AA&displaylang=de

Japanese URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BC0A4B8F-22DD-4AF2-9897-42D08C5529AA&displaylang=ja

Windows Web Server “Longhorn”

English URL: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=41F3CBBE-891E-4C71-98BE-9BD40AEEAF1E&displaylang=en