Not Bill G, silly, Bill S. Bill Staples the product unit manager for the IIS team which means the captain of the IIS boat.

He is often unpredictable about posting stuff that no one else yet knows about and he recently posted a new piece about RC1 and IIS 7.

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2006/09/05/IIS7...

There's no blockbuster news there aside from the fact the RC1 is done. Outside of Microsoft it looks like just another release for a belated OS, but internally people are working their butts off to get this done. It's an intrusting process to witness from inside.

Expect to see an updated LH Server build available to beta participants very, very soon!

As Bill says in is blog, Vista and Longhorn are coming together pretty well. I recently updated my main working system to Vista (a process we call dogfooding.) and RC1 is clearly the best release to date. Looks like we're on track to hit our release dates. This means that you can start looking at IIS 7 in vista as very, very indicative of what you will see in Longhorn Server. Aside from some spit and polish and some significant performance testing, there will be some features added that make sense for an enterprise or high capability sever, but otherwise, Vista bits and LH server bits for IIS 7 will be very much alike

-brett