Microsoft today is officially launching what was once Longhorn and is now known as Windows Server 2008 (WS08) — and doing so with high hopes for the OS. “Microsoft is counting on new features in Windows Server 2008 to attract interest from corporate IT managers,” Sumner Lemon of the IDG News service reports in Microsoft has high expectations for Windows Server 2008. “These features generally fall into one of four areas Microsoft focused on when developing Windows Server 2008: security, virtualization, Web productivity and business intelligence.”Timed for its release, InfoWorld’s Test Center took a long look at WS08 and found it, in this in-depth product review, to be “an upgrade IT can’t refuse … a 200-pound gorilla that eats commercial Linux.” The Test Center also shares Secrets of Windows Server 2008, with a focus on the impact the new OS is going to have on IT shops and the organizations they support. And in the Special Report: Microsoft’s server big bang is something for those of you who have already decided not to touch the new server anytime soon. Well, in the words of contributing editor J. Peter Bruzzese, “Windows Server 2008 is absolutely awesome.” You must move to Windows Server 2008. All that said, if there are logical reasons why you should not, or can not, move to Server 2008. What are they? We’d like to know. Talkback below. Software Development