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Microsoft this week launched Windows Server 2012, describing it as a cloud OS. Company officials illuminated the cloud characteristics of its new server operating system during a carefully scripted, ...

Part of Microsoft's series of big bets on its future, Windows Server 2012 is a major upgrade to the company's server operating system — one designed to change the way businesses build and manage ...

The release of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 is the company's most ambitious effort yet to help organizations build and manage private clouds. Windows Server 2012 is designed with cloud computing in ...

Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 R2 on Amazon’s cloud, taking advantage of features such as tiered storage, and they can also combine the OS with SQL Server 2014. Windows Server 2012 R2 was ...

Amazon Web Services announced today that it will now offer virtual Windows 2012 server instances as part of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Amazon Web Services’ Windows team General Manager ...

In Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1, Microsoft has released a combination of operating system updates that we find very compelling. Microsoft has joined much of the rest of the industry in ...

Microsoft's 'Blue' wave of tools and technologies is more than just a user interface refresh. It's the next step on Microsoft's journey to becoming a devices and services company, and the first of ...

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 is a big step in the company’s shift toward cloud computing, analysts say. For CIOs who are moving an increasing amount of their resources into the cloud, that means that ...

The cloud revolution began in the Linux and Unix world, and for a long time the cloud wasn’t a welcoming environment for workloads that run on Windows Server. Even today, not all cloud platforms are ...

From UEFI to full-disk encryption to improvements in IIS, Windows Server 2012's security features alone provide reason enough to upgrade With the shift to the new Metro user interface, a lot of people ...