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- ...that a Nashville Plus Pack build of Internet Explorer 4 had its page loading animation being a humorous banner of the Internet Explorer icon kicking the Mozilla mascot to jab at its competition with Netscape at the time?
- ...that Windows Server 2003 has been renamed four times during development, before settling on its final name?
- ...that the Start button in Windows 95 build 302 says "Ship It!", as a developer temporarily renamed the button in December 1994 for a joke?
- ...that while the first shipping 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows was for the Itanium, the 64-bit port was actually developed on DEC Alpha systems?
- ...that Paint was once on the second disk of Windows 1.0 Alpha Release but later deleted by either Microsoft or the owner for unknown reasons?
- ...that the Gizmo theme that was present in Mac OS 8.5b6 originates from Copland as "Z Theme" and was intended for testing the theming service for both versions?
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Windows Server 2003 is a major release of Windows Server released on 24 April 2003. It is the server counterpart of Windows XP, although it was released nearly 18 months after its original release and is built on a slightly newer codebase (kernel version 5.2 rather than 5.1). It replaces Windows 2000 Server and was eventually succeeded by Windows Server 2008.
A major update called Windows Server 2003 R2 was released on 6 December 2005, although unlike server versions with the R2 moniker that were in fact based on newer Windows versions, it was still built on the same codebase as the original version. The update included .NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft Management Console 3.0, Virtual Server 2005 and Windows Services for UNIX. Several other products were built on the codebase of Windows Server 2003, included the updated Itanium release of Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
