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Windows Server is, without a doubt, a comprehensive and complete platform, composed of hundreds of components supporting a wide array of roles. As we continued to develop the Windows feature set, we saw the need to streamline the footprint of Windows Server by enabling the removal of components that...

A prior blog entry began our whirlwind introductory tour of some of the more significant platform storage enhancements being introduced in Windows Server 8 – this follow-up entry concludes our introduction. In Windows 8 Platform Storage – Part 1 , we listed your storage related requirements...

Organizations of every size – small and medium businesses, enterprises, and commercial hosting providers – have an insatiable need for storage. In Windows Server 8, we have invested significantly to deliver the most cost-effective platform for scalable and continuously available data access...

Hyper-V users have asked for a number of new networking capabilities and we’ve heard them. In codename Windows Server 8 we are adding many new features to the Hyper-V virtual switch for virtual machine protection, traffic isolation, traffic prioritization, usage metering, and the troubleshooting...

Whether you’re talking about closet space in your house or the capacity of your datacenter, storage is something you can never have enough of. But storage space alone isn’t the whole story. Storage for data needs to be both flexible and reliable. Microsoft recognizes the crucial importance...

Most people have heard of the campaign where customers say, “ Windows 7 was my idea .” Well, Windows Server 8 continues to carry that torch and has become a solution that customers can truly say was their idea. As Bill Laing mentioned in his Windows Server 8 Introduction post, input from...

Windows Server 8 is a cloud optimized OS. You’ve probably heard that phrase or similar comments a lot recently since we introduced Windows Server 8 last month (see Bill Laing’s blog post .) Let’s drill in a bit to explain what that really means and why it matters to you. In the past...

Last month at the BUILD Conference we introduced Windows Server 8 and began discussing how it will help customers deliver the most dynamic, available, and cost-effective server platform for what we call "cloud optimized IT." I wanted to follow up on Bill Laing's blog post and dig into the advancements...

Today at the Microsoft BUILD conference I had the pleasure of introducing the developer preview of the next release of Windows Server codenamed Windows Server 8 , now available on MSDN. In a room full of software developers and hardware partners I got to share some of our thinking behind the design of...