Visual Studio 2008、SQL Server 2008和Windows Server 2008发布日期确定

在昨天于丹佛举行的微软世界合作伙伴会议（Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference）上，Kevin Turner宣布了Windows Server^® 2008、Visual Studio^® 2008和Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008三个产品将在2008年2月27日于洛杉矶发布。

下面是Kevin Turner的原话 ：

我们公司在过去的一年中投入了超过70亿美元，且今年这个数字还会增加。世界上的任何一架科技公司都不可能在研发上投入如此的力量。70亿美元！而且我们并不打算就到此为止，我们的目标非常长远。

对于Windows Server来说，我们确实已经有一段时间没有发布新版本了。回想Windows Server所创造出来的大环境，简直令人难以置信：Web方面无以伦比的改进、虚拟技术以及安全性，这三个关键的特性给我们的每一个客户都留下了深深的印象。

而对于SQL Server，你应该知道，它是整个微软公司产品中增长最快、利润最大的几个业务之一。我们赢得了市场，获得了利润，原因非常简单——我们的产品好用，而且能够为客户节省成本。

考虑到我们将在2008年发布一个新的、更加安全、更加值得信赖、带来更好扩展性的版本，这将是一个多么好的盈利机会阿！

接下来是我们的Visual Studio 2008：更加丰富的语言和数据特性，便于创建流行的软件；更少的代码行数；更高的可重用性。这正是当前市场所需要的产品。

我已经猜到了你的问题：这些产品什么时候能够发布？什么时候？

现在就让我来告诉你们这个答案：我们将在2008年2月27日于全球发布这些产品。这是微软公司有史以来在同一天内的最大发布。

微软公司还透露其Visual Studio的Beta 2将在今年夏天的晚些时候发布，Visual Studio和Windows Server都将在今年年底送交生产厂商（RTM，release to manufacturing）。  

Yesterday in Denver at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference Kevin Turner announced Windows Server^® 2008, Visual Studio^® 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 will launch together in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008. 

In Kevin Turner's own words:

Our company invested over $7 billion this past year. It will go up again this next year. That is more than any other technology company in the world in R&D and innovation. That's $7 billion. We're not slowing down. We're going to continue to take the long-term approach.

When you think about Windows Server and it's been a while since we've had a new release on Windows Server, when you think about the ecosystem that's created through Windows Server it is an unbelievable opportunity for us, great improvements for Web, virtualization and security, three key things in the eyes of our customers. And when you think about SQL, you know what, one of the fastest growing, most profitable businesses in all of Microsoft is our SQL Server business, we're winning share, and earning share from customers, because our stuff works and it's saving people money.

And when you think about the fact that we're right on schedule with another release of that in 2008, securable, reliable and scalable platform for your applications, what an opportunity to monetize that.

And then our Visual Studio 2008, improved language and data features for creating modern software, fewer lines of code, more reusable code; that's what people are looking for in the marketplace.

And your question to me might be when, when will you do this Microsoft? It says announcing; when?

Well, here's when. We're going to do it on February 27, 2008 worldwide. It's the biggest single launch we've got in Microsoft on one day.  

Microsoft also stated that the Beta 2 of Visual Studio is on track to release later this summer with a release to manufacturing  for both Visual Studio and Windows Server by the end of the year.