Milestone slips from final quarter this year into Q1 '08

As it trumpeted news of Vista SP1's scheduled release yesterday, Microsoft Corp. also quietly said it would delay Windows Server 2008, the next version of its server operating system.

Helene Love Snell, a senior product manager on the Server 2008 team, broke the news on the group's blog. "This seems like the best place to let you know that Windows Server 2008, which we have been saying would Release to Manufacturing (RTM) by the end of the calendar year, is now slated to RTM in the first quarter of calendar year 2008," she said yesterday.