Since last Thursday, I was ordered under strict nondisclosure to keep my mouth shut. And that was really hard for me to do because I could barely contain my enthusiasm for what is probably the most ...

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview–the desktop version of Windows 8–has been getting all of the attention lately, but another new kid is in town as well: Windows Server 8. Packing in tons of new features ...

Before I get started with my first look at Windows Server 8, I want to say a couple of things up front. First, the software is a Developer Preview release. This means Windows Server 8 isn't even ...

Windows Server 8 is categorically different than its predecessor versions. There’s an argument to say that it’s not actually Windows. It’s pre-beta, and it’s an enormous statement covering many ...

You might think that Microsoft's cloud investments were limited to its online services and its cloud platform Azure. But being 'all in' on the cloud is about more than running massive datacentres.

Microsoft on Tuesday offered a sneak peek of "Windows Server 8," the code name for the company's next-generation server that's still under wraps. The server sighting happened on Day 2 of the 2011 ...

In the first part of my 2-part review of Windows Server 8 I looked at some of the best of the more than 300 new features Microsoft packed into the upcoming server OS. Now it’s time to turn our ...

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This morning at its BUILD event, Microsoft took the wraps off of its plans for Windows Server 8. The announcements came just one day after the company began to explain, and distribute, Windows 8.

I know it is not as glamorous or flashy as Windows 8 with its Metro UI, and touchscreen magic, but Microsoft has some other tricks up its sleeve for this BUILD conference. The day 2 keynote focused on ...

Where Windows 8 is an operating system built for the tablet, Windows Server 8 is an operating system built for the cloud. Not the Windows Azure public cloud; rather, it’s built for “private clouds”: ...

Windows as an overall ecosystem, and Windows Server 8 in particular, will include frameworks, services and management utilities that let you manage workloads in your data center, then send them across ...