Just learned about this today and thought I would share. The internal code names for Microsoft products these days are always place names - things like cities, islands, countries, etc. This has been mandated to the development teams by our legal department. I suppose it provides us some protection from trademark or copyright infringement, as geographical names and places are by their very nature in the public domain.

Yep, they've both gone gold today. For those of you with MSDN subscriptions, expect to see them both real soon in the subscriber downloads. The public release of Vista SP1 through Windows Update and the Windows Download Center in planned for mid-March.

For more details from the teams themselves...check out these links:

Windows Server 2008 - RTM!!!

Announcing the RTM of Windows Vista SP1