Despite some speculation that it might kill a planned interim release of Windows Server, Microsoft said this week that it is charging ahead with the update, code-named R2.
However, the software maker is taking a couple of features out of the operating system release to make sure it can come out by the second half of next year.
As previously reported,Microsoft is delaying one of the key selling points for R2--a Network Access Protection feature that allows corporate networks to quarantine machines re-entering the network. The company said Monday that it is delaying much of that capability until 2007 to collaborate with Cisco Systems to make sure the companies have compatible approaches to network security.
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Oct 18, 2004, 06:18 PM
