Windows 7 Home Premium Microsoft starts recruiting

Microsoft is recruiting a set of select testers for its “Dublin” distributed application server, and is preparing for a public beta of the technology that is due out later this year.According to a June 30 blog posting to Microsoft;s “The .Net Endpoint” blog, the company is recruiting Technology Adoption Program (TAP) testers for a test build of the product the company will deliver in August or September. A public beta of Dublin will follow sometime later this year, the blog posting said.Microsoft officials last talked about Dublin at the company;s Professional Developers Conference in October 2008. At that time, Microsoft released an early Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of Dublin.Microsoft execs have described Dublin as a combination of an application server and Web server. They said Microsoft ultimately plans to incorporate Dublin into a future release of Windows Server,Windows 7 Home Premium, but before that will make the Dublin technology available to Windows Server customers as a separate download.The new blog posting describes Dublin this way:“;Dublin; rounds out the existing application server capabilities in Windows by providing additional features to help organizations manage and run Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) services built using .NET 4.”Microsoft officials recently acknowledged that the company plans to remove workflow services from the July CTP of .Net Services, one of the components of its Azure cloud operating system in order to synchronize .Net Services and .Net 4.0.Microsoft has not provided a ship-date target for Dublin.