Rohit Dhand

Finally, the day has come when Windows 7 is hitting shelves in New York today i.e. 22nd Oct, 09. It has opened to a big positive response from different users in twitter & industry experts. Using it for the last 2 months. No problems at all. Strong solid release from Microsoft. Strongly Recommended. Watch out Microsoft Basher's, Microsoft is back again.

Windows 2008 Server R2 provides software level support for the network load balancing of various servers like Web Server, Print Server, Database Server etc. The feature of multicast communication has to be resolved by putting an arp entry into the router/switch which ever we are using. The ping to the Virtual IP will not happen by default, unless we put the physical address of the Virtual IP as a static entry in the arp table of the router/switch.

Microsoft will release Windows 8 nearly after three years of general launch of Windows 7 i.e. Oct, 2012. It is believed that Windows 8 will have a new Interface which looks like 3D in nature and overhaul the architecture i.e. moving to 128 Bit rather than 32 or 64 Bit only. Let's hope Microsoft continues to make even a better product than Windows 7.

This is one of the greatest and best ever server produced since Windows NT 4.0 Era. The server gives performance boost over various areas and provides best corporate features like: Network Load Balancing, Failover Cluster, RADIUS Server etc. Its also improves on major areas like IIS 7.5 which helps in managing the web sites with ease and making it more modular. It also enhances the performance of IIS, php (if configured) like any thing. Strongly recommended , if one is still sticking to the traditional Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000.