Windows Server 2008 R2 to be released information

Windows Server 2008 R2, will be broadly available on Oct. 22, the same day as Windows 7.The confirmation came from Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft's original equipment manufacturer division corporate vice president, during a keynote speech at the Computex electronics exhibition in Taipei. Microsoft has said the server product was on schedule for release around the same time as Windows 7.The release candidate for Windows Service 2008 R2 has been available since last month, when Microsoft also announced several new features.Those included the ability for Hyper-V, Microsoft's server virtualization software, to support 64 logical processors where it could previously only scale up to 32.

Another feature is the processor capacity mode, which allows for virtual machines to be moved to another physical server with a different CPU version. Before Hyper-V could only move virtual machines to servers with the same CPUs, which required adminstrators to buy more hardware. The latest version also has a feature for classifying data in file servers by importance. The File Classification Infrastructure let adminstrators prioritize certain business data and back that data more often.

Microsoft said it had fixed a bug in Bing that had infuriated Internet Explorer 6 users when they discovered that the company's new search engine had hijacked their browsers. we corrected the issue with Bing on machines running IE6. when Microsoft took Bing live, IE6 users began complaining that although they had previously set other search engines as the default, searches typed into the browser were instead directed to Bing.

Bing seems to have hijacked many user-programmed search preferences away from Google," echoed "Jimpobg" on another help thread. "Since I didn't know what Bing was, I really thought my computer was infected with malicious software. Well, actually....it WAS. Sounds like classic Microsoft behavior