For those in the general population, the big news of the day from Microsoft is probably the official release of the Zune portable music player. Most of the tech community has probably been past this for quite some time. However, Microsoft continues to make headlines, this time withÂ? Code Name: Longhorn, the successor to Windows Server 2003.

On the heels of the completion of Vista and Office, Microsoft Tuesday opened up its annual IT Forum conference by confirming the road map for the next beta of Lonhorn Server, announcing the release of its long-awaited PowerShell command line tool, and unveiling a host of new and upcoming releases of platform and application management tools.

Click here for the full story.

For more information about the Beta 2 version of Longhorn for users, please see this article.

Digg this entry! This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 9:03 am and is filed under Main. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.