What's New on the Windows Roadmap

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Major developments in the Windows OS since the Mar. 2010 Enterprise Software Roadmap include the following:

A developers preview of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 is now available for testing of improvements, including a new JavaScript engine; better support for the most commonly used technologies and emerging standards that IE 8 doesn’t fully support; and use of DirectX 9 APIs to provide hardware-based acceleration for rendering complex interactive graphics written in HTML5.
A Windows Virtual PC Update removed the requirement for hardware-assisted virtualization processors, which are typically available only in more expensive desktops.
The first service pack for Windows Server 2008 R2 (release date unknown) will deliver two features designed to improve virtual desktop infrastructure: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX.
Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, and Visual Studio 2010 will be the last versions to run on the Itanium family of 64-bit processors.
Windows HPC Server 2008

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