While the software giant is mum on what follows Vista on the desktop, it does lay out plans for Windows Server. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders ...

Customers now can download a fully-functional trial version for evaluation, and Microsoft is also making the software available to the Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet subscribers. With SQL ...

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It's not 2008 anymore. Joey details the ins and outs of upgrading these aging Microsoft servers, including licensing changes, support options and potential pitfalls. It was a simpler time. A decade ...

Customers and partners worldwide confirm mission-critical applications, enterprise-class data warehousing support. REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 6, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to ...

In this hour, you are introduced to the latest version of Microsoft’s network operating system (NOS) platform: Microsoft Windows Server 2008. You’ll learn about the features that Windows Server 2008 ...

With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

Containerisation can help business lift and shift legacy Windows Server 2008 applications, and Docker regards this as a big opportunity. The Microsoft server operating system reaches end of support ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...

Microsoft can't really expect to sell many copies of Windows Server 2008 Foundation, which doesn't offer what you can get for free in every Linux distribution. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of ...

Microsoft has announced a new release of its Windows Storage Server 2008 software, a product previously codenamed Breckenridge. As with previous versions of Windows Storage Server, the 2008 R2 release ...