Windows Server 2003 goes gold
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft is expected to announce on Friday that Windows Server 2003 has completed testing and has been certified final, or gold, code. Release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2003 code clears the way for next month's product launch event in San Francisco. RTM also means that computer manufacturers can begin selling systems with the software.
"As soon as that product is RTM, the (PC makers) are ready to roll with what they want to do," Bob O'Brien, Microsoft's group product manager for Windows Server, said Tuesday. In recent years, Microsoft's practice has been to let computer makers ship systems with a new operating system ahead of the official launch date. That was the case with Windows XP and Windows 2000.