{"id":4383,"date":"2007-05-15T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2007\/05\/15\/live-from-winhec-its-windows-server-2008\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T23:31:57","slug":"live-from-winhec-its-windows-server-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/live-from-winhec-its-windows-server-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Live from WinHEC….It’s WINDOWS SERVER 2008!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Greetings from Los Angeles<\/a> and the 2007 edition of Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference<\/a> (known on the streets as WinHEC 2007<\/a>).<\/p>\n This yearly confab brings together the industry’s key PC\u00a0hardware eco-system players to help define and drive what the future of Windows computing will look like.\u00a0 The conference has featured great announcements over the years and this year is no exception.<\/p>\n Just about a year ago, Bill Gates used his WinHEC\u00a0keynote address (May 2006 in Seattle) to highlight a major company milestone — the first time all three major Microsoft product lines (Windows, Windows Server, and Office) reached beta 2 at the same time.<\/p>\n This morning, Bill unveiled another milestone — the official name for Windows Server “Longhorn”.<\/p>\n Drum roll please…<\/p>\n Introducing Windows Server 2008<\/a>!<\/p>\n As Bill joked, I’m sure this isn’t a big surprise.<\/p>\n We’ve even poked a little fun at ourselves in this great video that provides a peak inside the whole naming process at Microsoft:\u00a0 What’s in a name?<\/a><\/p>\n I had the distinct honor of being\u00a0the first to demo our next generation Windows Server release under it’s new name.<\/p>\n I have to admit there were two tough acts to follow — both Windows Rally<\/a> and Windows Home Server<\/a> had killer demos in Bill’s keynote — but here’s a quick synopsis of what I showed:<\/p>\n Out of the long list of new and enhanced features, I focused on a bunch of security and policy-enforcement\u00a0technologies of Windows Server 2008.\u00a0 We took a look at how Windows Server 2008 can help address three common challenges:<\/p>\n\n