Yesterday Microsoft announced that the Windows.NET Server Family had entered the Release Candidate stage.  Today Microsoft shipped RC1 to beta testers.  By my estimations, sometime next week I should find myself in possestion of a copy of Windows.NET Standard Server RC1 and Windows.NET Enterprise Server RC1.  So, following in my tradition of being on the bleeding edge, I'll most likely be rebuilding this web server with Windows.NET Standard Server RC1 sometime next week.   I'll have more precise estimates at some point in the future (hopefully before the outage).

In other news, I have purchased a new server.  It is primarily geered towards my personal developmental usage, and will only be pressed into public service after I have had a long time to get acquainted with it.  The delay is due to the radically different architecture of 'Ametrine' (as it has been christened): it's a DEC AlphaServer 4000 5/300.