Microsoft will release inside the following couple of weeks a brand new Community Technology Preview (CTP) construct of its mid-market server product,
Windows 7 Product Key, code-named “Centro,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007,” according to an e-mail sent to selected testers.
According to information posted on the Techlog site, the upcoming Centro CTP will incorporate “many new Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 based components.”
Centro, the product to which Microsoft officials referred a couple of years back as Windows Mid-Market Server, is an integrated bundle of Windows Server 2008,
Windows 7, Exchange Server 2007, System Center Essentials 2007, SQL Server 2005,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, ISA Server and other Forefront security technologies.
Microsoft released to a private group of testers a first beta construct of Centro in December 2006.
The final 64-bit-only version of Centro is slated to ship some time in 2008, as is the updated Windows Small Business Server “Cougar” product — which,
Windows 7 Activation, like Centro — is built around Windows Server 2008.
Windows Server 2008, the item formerly codenamed “Longhorn Server,” is still on track to be released to manufacturing in 2007 and to launch worldwide in the first part of 2008.
(Thanks to Steven Bink of Bink.nu fame for the original pointer to the Techlog posting.)