Your highest uptime

[TH-Gunner]

Uhhm, so somehow it was started nearly 6 months before the OS was released?? Wow, M$ is developing some amazing sofware - it can even travel through time.

Yeah, I noticed that too. The time doesn't work out.

 

[aaronw1986]

23:41 up 15 days, 22:21, 2 users, load averages: 4.11 3.93 3.81

 

[twhisnant]

oh, I agree, the timestamp looks fishy. Did they build a Server 2003 box with from an RC disc? Maybe (doubt it). We always have a few servers running beta/RC before release (obviously they don't go into production). I've known guys running server 2008 beta 2 since 2006.

So, "official release dates" aren't always, well, official. And unless a server needs a hotfix or critical patch, they don't get rebooted. Server 2003 boxes can have a long uptime if critical patches don't require a reboot. Granted, they're not as stout as a UNIX box but that's another thread.