The next version of Microsoft's Internet Information Services Web server (IIS7) will integrate the ASP.NET development technologies and turn many core features into optional modules.
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Microsoft is continuing to drip-feed information about its forthcoming Longhorn Server and has implied that beta one code will be made available to testers by August.
Microsoft has discovered the best beta tester for the next generation of its server operating system, Windows Server 2008, is itself.
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