Active Directory to be expanded with identity, certificate and rights management services as well as federation management services.

Next-gen Windows Server released for public testing.

Third beta of Microsoft's latest server technology.

Windows Server 2008 due next week.

Longhorn arrives in late February, along with a cringe-inducing "Heroes Happen Here" launch slogan..

'2008' to replace equally exciting '2003'.

Saving release cycle by going back to 16 cores.

Digital certificates and smartcards are the future.

Is Vista’s suave new interface and menu system window dressing or a radical improvement in usability?

Steve Ballmer trumpets 'most secure enterprise platform ever'.

Goodbye “Aspirational” Vista, hello again to numbered Windows versions. Microsoft announces that Windows 7 will be called... Windows 7.

Here's our 60 second guide, and a wishlist for Microsoft's new baby.

Release-to-manufacturing pushed back to first quarter of next year.

Windows Mobile 6 takes on the look and functionality of Vista.