Windows Server 8 was the code name Microsoft’s for Windows
Server 2012.
The company first publicly talked about the product at its Worldwide Partners Conference in July
2011 and officially debuted a developer’s preview version of it at its BUILD conference the
following September.
Containing over 300 new features, Windows Server 8 was promoted to be a significant technical
advance over Windows Server 2008 R2, particularly in the areas of cloud computing,
virtual networks and storage infrastructures. The product, which was anticipated to feature
improved multitenant support,
would offer IT customers a choice in building and deploying applications optimized to work with private cloud and public cloud
environments.
Contributor(s): Ed Scannell
This was last updated in February 2012
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