Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 has RTM’d

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Dean Paron and Sandrine Skinner]

Hi- This is Dean Paron, Product Unit Manager for Windows MultiPoint Server and Sandrine Skinner, Director of Marketing for Windows MultiPoint Server . We are so pleased to announce to you that today Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 is available on the Download Center and to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers a bit later this week. This availability follows the official hand off of the final release (RTM) of Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 to our OEM partners which happened on February 11, 2011.

Volume License(VL) customers will be able to download and purchase Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 on March 1, 2011. Broader, public availability through partners will start mid-April 2011.

And by the way the evaluation version available on the Download Center today can be turned into a full production version when you purchase your VL license of Windows MultiPoint Server 2011- so there is no need for re-installation.

We also would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our beta testers for providing feedback and helping us refine and enhance the experience for this new product release.

There has been a lot of discussions around Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 over the last few weeks: it started at the BETT show, the largest tradeshow of Education technology, that took place in London early January where we first had the opportunity to showcase face to face Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 to customers and partners from around the world.

In our previous blogs around the Beta , we mentioned what’s new in Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 versus the previous release of Windows MultiPoint Server (WMS 2010) in terms of features and functionality.

We would like to also mention what’s new in terms of channel availability and SKU availability for Windows MultiPoint Server 2011:

  Standard

Premium

Channel

OEM

VL Open Commercial

OEM (pre-install and ROK)

OEM Academic

VL Open Commercial

VL Academic

Number of simultaneous connected sessions you can run

10*

20*

Domain Join capability

Not supported

Supported

Hyper-V capability

Not supported

1+1 licensing model

*Actual number of connected sessions is based on host computer hardware capacity (CPU, memory, etc.), station hardware configuration (RemoteFX, PCI-E or USB) and usage workloads

As you can see in the table above, we now have 2 editions, Standard and Premium which have the same features and functionality except for the ability to join a domain, and ability to run as Hyper-V host or guest, which are only available in the Premium edition. Also the Premium edition is broadly available to customers and resellers through OEM and OEM Academic as well as through Volume Licensing Open Commercial and Academic.

Again VL customers will have access to Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 on the VL download site on March 1, 2011.

Also worth mentioning, we even had our own famous internal Windows 7 blogger, we’re sure you know him already, Brandon LeBlanc, who’s blogging about his experience with Windows MultiPoint Server 2011: check it out here at this link: https://windowsteamblog.com

We’re so excited about this release as in the WMS team we’re super passionate about delivering technology to help our Teachers and Students thrive and providing them with a Windows 7 experience, even as their school’s or campus’ IT budgets have been slashed.

Here’s the link to the Download Center for your convenience- Happy Windows MultiPoint Server 2011!!!!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2011
    Hello Microsoft. The version that is uploaded to the Download Center is corrupt when you downloaded it. I have download it with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 & 9, on different locations in the world, but after you have downloaded the package, the files are empty (if you extract them), the install.wim only has 1 file: [1].xml and when you boot it, you will get an winload error. I hope you are going to release the correct version (or build a new one).

  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2011

  1. Hey i have download the Trial Version from Microsoft Download Center, but the iso file is corrupt. Could you prove the file please? Even I coulnd't run setup.exe
  2. Is SP1 included?