I have to be honest with you: For about the past year, I've had some serious doubts about Microsoft's place in the technology world. Don't misunderstand me, Microsoft has many fantastic products and ...

It's the week for Microsoft to make official the names of the products that have born the codename "Windows 8." On April 16, Microsoft officials unsurprisingly revealed that the final name of Windows ...

The consumer preview of Windows 8 wasn’t the only operating system code Microsoft dropped today. The company also released the Windows Server “8” beta, a work-in-progress version of the next ...

Microsoft has added two years of optional extended support for Windows Server 2008 to its product-support roadmap. Originally, Windows Server 2008 was supposed to move from free, mainstream support, ...

Lost in the hoopla of the Windows 8 client release was Windows Server 8, which came out at the same time. This massively updated server OS will be Microsoft’s stake in the ground for cloud computing, ...

The company is pitching its upcoming Windows "8" Server Core as a low-cost option for building private cloud systems. Server Core is a "minimal installation option" of the Windows Server operating ...

Now in beta, Windows Server 8 adds capabilities that will shift the balance in virtualized data centers and private clouds Windows admins and software developers, start your downloading: Microsoft has ...

PowerShell now comes with an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) module that introduces over 75 Active Directory cmdlets. From a script or the new Graphical PowerShell user interface, you can ...

Microsoft released an optional update last week that adds a Disk Cleanup Wizard to Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. The Disk Cleanup Wizard removes the update files that pile up in the WinSxS ...

I had the opportunity to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 for over 2 years before its release at the end of 2009 implementing the product in a couple dozen very large early adopter enterprises, and ...

If we were having a discussion based on cost alone and didn’t have to bring features and management tools into the discussion, Hyper-V would already be the leading virtualizaton product compared to ...