Planet Lowyat

Personally, I have download Windows Server 2008 codename Longhorn from MSDN but yet to install and test it(My colleague installed as a VM guest in one of the VMware ESX 3.5 farm and it’s worked).

According to Yahoo and Inforworld, Windows Server 2008 enhancements work pretty much as expected such as restartable Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and several integrity-related NTFS enhancements. Other Longhorn changes can take quite a bit of planning to deliver what you’d want, plus may require you to buy new hardware to take advantage of them: Server Core, RODCs (read-only domain controllers), failover clustering, multi-path I/O, and Next Generation TCP/IP. Read more »

Look at my download speed - 375.2KB/sec.

I had a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard edition download from MSDN today. The file size is about 1.7G and it took me about an hour for fully download.

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