Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Worldwide Launch

April 24, 2003

Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Launch

A transcript of remarks made by Steve Ballmer in San Francisco, California on April 24, 2003 as part of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Launch.

April 24, 2003

New 64-bit SQL Server 2000 Enhances Performance and ScalabilityOf the Microsoft Platform

SQL Server 2000 (64-bit) With Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Achieve Two No. 1 Benchmarks; New 64-bit Software Enables Cornell University, IRI, JetBlue, Johns Hopkins and Liberty Medical to Do More With Less

April 24, 2003

Unisys, Microsoft and Siebel Systems Achieve High Performance for Low Costs, Recording 30,000 Concurrent Siebel Benchmark Users

Unisys ES7000, running Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit), achieves excellent Siebel 7 performance

April 24, 2003

HP and Microsoft Deliver World’s Fastest Transaction Processing Performance

HP and Microsoft Corp. announce the world’s fastest single-system TPC-C (OLTP) benchmark result of 658,277 transactions per second.(

April 24, 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Is Available Worldwide Today

New Releases of Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio .NET 2003and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-Bit) Enable Customers to “Do More With Less”

April 24, 2003

Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 (64-Bit) Deliver World-Record-Breaking Performance

Microsoft, Intel and HP Partner to Deliver World-Record 658,277 tpmC Benchmark Result

April 24, 2003

Q&A: SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) Offers Improved Scalability and Performance, and a Low Total Cost of Ownership

Gordon Mangione, corporate vice president of the SQL Server team, explains why the new 64-bit version of SQL Server 2000 offers exceptional performance for today’s data-intensive enterprise applications.

April 24, 2003

Microsoft Releases New Versions of Windows Server, Visual Studio .NET and SQL Server

Integration of the new enterprise-scale operating system, development tools and database server is helping customers enhance their IT performance and ease development of new applications.

April 24, 2003

500 Bagel Salute: Windows Server 2003 Wows Former NT 4.0 Shops

Though Windows Server 2003 official launches today, business customers large and small are already seeing reduce costs and increased efficiency in their IT operations.

April 23, 2003

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio .NET 2003 Worldwide Availability

Integrates .NET Framework 1.1 Into Windows Server 2003, Reducing Middleware and Enabling Customers to Span Device to Datacenter With Enterprise-Ready Application Platform