Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008: Implementation and Administration

Introduction

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Vista are the successors to Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. Windows Server 2008 and Vista arise out of the Longhorn project, and formerly Windows Server 2008 is Longhorn Server and Vista is the Longhorn client. Both products share a lot of common code in their engines, so in a sense both are joined at the hip. Although this book focuses on how Windows Server 2008 is different from Windows Server 2003 and how you can get the most out of that difference, we can't ignore this intimate connection between server and its intended client—and I won't. This isn't the first time that Microsoft has co-developed a client and a server; the Whistler project delivered Windows Server 2003 and XP as server and ...