Deadlines have a way of getting your attention. On January 14th, 2020, Microsoft will stop providing security updates for Windows Server 2008, almost nine years after the last major update to the ...

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 ...

Windows Server 2008 has reached end of life, which typically means upgrading to a newer version. But CIOs have options beyond updating to a more recent iteration of Windows server, including staying ...

What just happened? If you're an IT admin relying on Windows Server Update Services to manage updates across your network, it's time to consider alternatives. Microsoft has officially announced that, ...

Microsoft is teaming with a handful of server vendors to provide validated private-cloud stacks, consisting of a variety of hardware, plus Microsoft virtualization and management software. Microsoft ...

Rackspace continues to advance their cloud offering today with announcing of support for Windows Servers images starting in 2010. The Rackspace team has a long history of Microsoft support in their ...

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”: ...

On the first day of TechEd here in New Orleans, Microsoft Server and Tools Division President Bob Muglia used the his keynote speech to share the event’s most anticipated announcement: Service Pack 1 ...

Microsoft is continuing its efforts to expand the breadth of its cloud offerings. Last month, the company enhanced Azure with several features, most notably, Linux support. Now Microsoft has its ...

Microsoft is bringing some of its newly-announced Windows Azure services -- like virtual machine hosting and Web site hosting -- to Windows Server. Microsoft announced immediate availability of ...

Amazon's EC2 cloud-computing service has emerged from beta and is now generally available with two additions: beta-level support for Windows and SQL Server Amazon Thursday announced that after two ...

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, ...