Microsoft announced that the Windows Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. The new Windows Operating System is set to challenge the most versatile and solid Linux distributions oriented to the server market and will become available for purchase beginning March 1.

According to Microsoft, IT professionals face increasing pressure from rapidly changing technology, increasing costs and security concerns, and expanding business needs. Windows Server 2008 helps alleviate these pressures by automating daily management tasks, tightening security, improving efficiency and increasing availability. It also offers virtualization solutions that will enable IT professionals to reduce costs, increase hardware utilization, optimize their infrastructure, and improve server availability.

Windows Server 2008 just like Microsoft Vista is built on the Windows NT 6.0 kernel and is the successor to Windows Server 2003. It is said to be more web-friendly with an improved version of Internet Information Services (IIS) for simplified and powerful server management.

Virtualization (HyperV) will also play an important part on Windows Server 2008’s list of features, self-healing NTFS volumes, improved hot patching, and dynamic hardware partitioning which adds support for the hot-addition or replacement of processors and memory on capable hardware.

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