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                | muzishunSenior Member
 
     
 
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                      |  Posted - 11 February 2008 :  12:11:18     
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                      | It's official. I'm in! I am really looking forward to this. Anybody else in the Kansas City area going on March 25th? |  
                      | Bill Parrott
 Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
 Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
 Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
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                | RichardKinserSnitz Forums Admin
 
      
 
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                      |  Posted - 05 March 2008 :  01:45:02   
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                      | Went to the Launch event in San Antonio this morning, pretty informative if you aren't familiar with Server 2008 at all.  Lots of cool new features, it's just getting your company to upgrade sooner rather than later.  HyperV is still in Beta though, will get Final via Windows Update when it's released. 
 The freebies are what Padraic listed above.
 
 Server 2008/VS 2008/SQL 2008
 Vista Ultimate w/SP1
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                | muzishunSenior Member
 
     
 
                United States1079 Posts
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                      |  Posted - 05 March 2008 :  09:08:12     
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                      | Glad to hear it. While the freebies are going to be *awesome*, I'm genuinely interested in learning more about Server 2008 and SQL 2008. |  
                      | Bill Parrott
 Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
 Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
 Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
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                | AnonJrModerator
 
      
 
                United States5768 Posts
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                      |  Posted - 05 March 2008 :  09:16:24     
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                      | Just when I was starting to get the hang of Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005...  |  
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                | JJensonAdvanced Member
 
      
 
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                      |  Posted - 05 March 2008 :  09:19:14     
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                      | I wish I had the money to get those products cause I want to start learning 2008 but I guess I should really start with windows server 2003 and SQL 2005 first anyways.  |  
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                | balexandreJunior Member
 
   
 
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                      |  Posted - 05 March 2008 :  09:31:39     
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                      | quote:Originally posted by JJenson
 
 I wish I had the money to get those products cause I want to start learning 2008 but I guess I should really start with windows server 2003 and SQL 2005 first anyways.
  
 
 
 You can get the full versions without paying anything... Windows products are shipped with trial until 240 days
 
 Visual Studio 2008 works for 90 days for example!
 
 
  in 3 months you can do marvelous things  |  
                      | Bruno Alexandre
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 "a Portuguese in Danmark"
 
 
 
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                | JJensonAdvanced Member
 
      
 
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                      |  Posted - 05 March 2008 :  10:09:47     
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                      | quote:Originally posted by balexandre
 
 
 quote:Originally posted by JJenson
 
 I wish I had the money to get those products cause I want to start learning 2008 but I guess I should really start with windows server 2003 and SQL 2005 first anyways.
  
 
 
 You can get the full versions without paying anything... Windows products are shipped with trial until 240 days
 
 Visual Studio 2008 works for 90 days for example!
 
 
  in 3 months you can do marvelous things  
 
 
 Really so I will be able to play with Server 2008 and SQL 2008? I already have VS 2008 cause of the student thing microsoft is doing called Dreamspark.
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                | davemaxwellAccess 2000 Support Moderator
 
      
 
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                      |  Posted - 05 March 2008 :  10:16:11     
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                      | I'm going tomorrow afternoon - at least that's when I think I'm supposed to go.  There's stuff in the morning, but the developer track is the afternoon, with an afternoon registration, so I'm assuming I can just go then. |  
                      | Dave Maxwell
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                | PodgeSupport Moderator
 
      
 
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                | ShaggySupport Moderator
 
      
 
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                      |  Posted - 13 March 2008 :  13:31:07   
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                      | Unfortunately not  Took on a massive project last Thurdsay that the gits want to Luanch on Monday, of all fecking days!  So it's been lunchless late nights & weekends for me. How'd it go? 
 
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  Search is your friend “I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
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                | PodgeSupport Moderator
 
      
 
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                | muzishunSenior Member
 
     
 
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                      |  Posted - 26 March 2008 :  10:46:56     
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                      | I went to the demo yesterday.  I was in a little deep with the SQL Server demo, as I haven't used it before, but I still feel like I took away a fair amount of knowledge.  I was most impressed by the Visual Studio 2008 demo and the cool stuff they are making available and possible with that. 
 And, of course, I loved my bag o' goodies.
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                      | Bill Parrott
 Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
 Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
 Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
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                | PodgeSupport Moderator
 
      
 
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                | HuwRForum Admin
 
      
 
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                      |  Posted - 26 March 2008 :  11:00:25     
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                      | didn't get chance to go myself, snowed under withe dev work at the moment 
 seems a bit strange doing a launch when some of the software is still only CTP though !!
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                | muzishunSenior Member
 
     
 
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                      |  Posted - 26 March 2008 :  11:14:20     
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                      | I think they're trying to get away from the individual launch events and go with a model of mixed training/demos/marketing.  Even though SQL Server 2008 isn't out yet, we got the most current RC and a code to get the full version once it's released.  It seemed to work rather well, but then I haven't been to any past launch events. |  
                      | Bill Parrott
 Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
 Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
 Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
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