For organizations that still haven't transitioned away from Windows Server 2008, which lost support on Jan. 14, Microsoft is extending some help.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 20, 2020
Docker unveiled a program on Thursday that adds migration support for organizations running applications on aging Windows Server infrastructure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2018
Organizations using SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 products can add three years of patch support via Microsoft's new Extended Security Updates plans, the company announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2018
Starting in September, users of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will receive their updates via a monthly rollup patch release.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 14, 2018
Windows Server 2008 will start its "extended support" phase on Jan. 15, 2015 after getting a 1.5-year extension to its lifecycle support, Microsoft announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 28, 2012
Dell has released a bundle targeted at small businesses that includes Microsoft's Small Business Server (SBS) Essentials 2011 running on an entry-level PowerEdge system.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 07, 2011
According to one Directions on Microsoft analyst, Windows 8 -- or whatever Microsoft calls its next operating system -- might be released in 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2011
According to a Microsoft blog post on Tuesday, the company's Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 cannot perform server virtualization using Intel's new second-generation Core vPro processors, formerly code-named "Sandy Bridge."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 27, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Which components of Microsoft's 350-strong product portfolio are the most important to its partners' businesses? To find the answer, we asked the partners themselves -- over 500 of them -- to pick the 10 they and their customers can't go without.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 26, 2011
Microsoft released on Monday iSCSI Software Target 3.3, a Windows Server 2008 R2 addition that allows for shared block storage in storage area networks using the iSCSI protocol.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2011
According to Microsoft, next-generation thin clients are poised for an enterprise comeback thanks to its Windows Embedded Standard 7 operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 18, 2011
A Microsoft official briefly noted on Thursday that Microsoft is planning two new options for IT organizations using Windows 7 -- but the catch is that Software Assurance (SA) licensing needs to be in place.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 11, 2011
Microsoft Wednesday released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to its equipment manufacturing partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 10, 2011
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to enable its .NET Framework 4 on Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 21, 2011
Version 5.5 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit was released early this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 19, 2011