Download Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate
Microsoft is providing download versions of the Windows Server 2008 release candidate free of charge right from their website to anyone interested in downloading them. A product key can be requested as well which will make the product valid until April 7, 2008.
Five different versions of Windows Server 2008 can be downloaded in various languages those are the Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, Windows Web Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems which are all designed for special purposes.
All releases are available in English, French, German, and Japanese. The Datacenter and Web Edition is also available in Spanish, while the Standard and Enterprise editions are available in the five languages previously mentioned plus Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) and Korean.
The download size is always in a range between 1 and 5 Gigabytes, here are the direct download links:
Windows Server® 2008 RC0 Standard (x86 and x64)
Windows Server® 2008 RC0 Enterprise (x86 and x64)
Windows Server® 2008 RC0 Datacenter (x86 and x64)
Windows® Web Server 2008 RC0 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server® 2008 RC0 for Itanium-based Systems
Grab your Windows Server 2008 Product Key at Microsoft Technet.
Update: Windows Server 2008 has been released in the mean time and while you were able to download a trial version of the final product for some time, it is no longer possible to do so. The main reason for that is that Microsoft has released updates to Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.
You can download an evaluation version of Windows Server 2012 using the link above. From there it is necessary to register for evaluation to download and install the server software on your local computer.
Before you download you should take a look at the system requirements to make sure your system meets them:
- Processor: at least 1.5 GHz 64-bit processor
- RAM: a minimum of 512 Megabyte
- Disk space: a minimum of 32 Gigabyte
The evaluation version of Windows Server 2012 is available as an iso disk image that you can burn to DVD and a VHD image (Virtual Hard Drive).
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.