EBS to be discontinued from 30 June Microsoft is to discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) according to a company blog.

This is the latest news as of March 6th.

I'll post more if I find anything else out.

NEWS.YAHOO.COM writes: "Microsoft will discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) as of June 30, the company announced via a blog."

I saw this posted Saturday on NEWS.YAHOO.COM.

"The not-much-ballyhooed smartphones from Microsoft, named The Turtle and Pure, have had a few leaks lately, perhaps as a method of drumming up interest in products that seem behind the times. Yesterday, marketing materials of The Turtle were disseminated into the blogosphere and today, the first-ever photographs of Pure, and some specs for both phones, made it onto Gizmodo."

I saw this posted Saturday.

"Rumors are circulating that Microsoft could announce a beta of Internet Explorer 9 at the upcoming MIX 2010 conference. The new version is rumored to feature improved support for open Web standards. The MIX 2010 conference will include at least two presentations about new, open Web standards: One, on HTML5, is entitled "HTML5 Now: The Future of Web Markup Today." Another session looks at the SVG ..."

Alice Wrote: Here's one for you - "Microsoft will discontinue future development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS), effective June 30th, 2010."

Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for March 2010 and there are only two security bulletins predicted for next Tuesday--both rated as Important. Following the nearly record-breaking Patch Tuesday in February, IT administrators will appreciate getting a little bit of a break.