微软在下载中心发布了Windows Server 2008 Beta3的下载。

　　本次下载是VHD版本，RAR分卷压缩,大小2.85GB，可以用Virtual Server 2005 R2虚拟机直接运行，大约需要10GB的硬盘空间。对Windows Server 2008有兴趣的朋友们不妨一试。

给出微软官方下载网页：

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9aa65956-4a13-46a3-9711-82939a041792&DisplayLang=en

Brief Description

This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Beta 3.

Quick Details

Version: 1.0
Date Published: 8/3/2007
Language: English
Download Size: 52.2 MB - 2852.2 MB*
*Download size depends on selected download components.

Overview

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the next generation of the Windows Server operating system that helps information technology (IT) professionals maximize control over their infrastructure while providing unprecedented availability and management capabilities, leading to a significantly more secure, reliable, and robust server environment than ever before. Windows Server 2008 delivers new value to organizations by ensuring all users regardless of location are able to get the full complement of services from the network. Windows Server 2008 also provides deep insight into the operating system and diagnostic capabilities to allow administrators to spend more time adding business value.

Windows Server 2008 builds on the success and strengths of the award-winning Windows Server 2003 operating system and on the innovations delivered in Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2003 R2. However, Windows Server 2008 is far more than a refinement of predecessor operating systems. Windows Server 2008 is designed to provide organizations with the most productive platform for powering applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the datacenter with exciting, valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the base operating system.

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP
This is a pre-configured VHD image that requires Virtual Server 2005 R2 installed on your system. Please refer to the Virtual Server 2005 R2 System requirements page here.

In addition to the System Requirements for Virtual Server 2005 R2, you will need additional disk and memory resources for running the virtual machine. This VHD is pre-configured to use approximately 10GB of hard disk space and approximately 1024MB of memory.

Instructions
In order to use this evaluation package you will need to have Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 R2 installed on a physical machine. If you do not have Virtual Server installed you can get this product free of charge from www.microsoft.com/virtualserver. Details of how to install Virtual Server 2005 R2 are included in the download and documentation that accompanies the product.

You will also find a readme document as a part of the download. Please refer to this for additional details on how to extract and use the VHD as a part of the download.

Files in This Download
The links in this section correspond to separate files available in this download. Download the files most appropriate for you.
File Name: File Size
LonghornServerBeta3.part01.exe 700.0 MB
LonghornServerBeta3.part02.rar 700.0 MB
LonghornServerBeta3.part03.rar 700.0 MB
LonghornServerBeta3.part04.rar 700.0 MB
LonghornServerBeta3.part05.rar 52.2 MB