Microsoft decouples SharePoint Services from Windows 2008
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The Windows Server team has decided to decouple its Windows SharePoint Services collaboration/document workflow subsystem from Windows Server 2008.
In its acknowledgement of the move, Julius Sinkevicius, Windows Server Senior Product Manager, announced the decision via the Windows Server blog on October 29. Sinkevicius was somewhat vague about the reasons why the server team decided to make WSS 3.0 available as a free download, rather than make WSS 3.0 available as part of the final version of Windows Server 2008, which is slated to be released to manufacturing in the first quarter of 2008.