This month's Windows Server vNext includes a Datacenter: Azure Edition, with the typical ISO and bits available in 18 languages. There are no known issues reported with this final build of the year.

Microsoft's Windows Datacenter Server has been about more than technology features since its launch in late 2000. Fittingly, the tightly controlled support program that makes Datacenter Server so ...

Windows 2000 Datacenter Server also is capable of running on 32 processors in a single system, which is supported in hardware by the new Unisys Corp. CMP systems that several other hardware ...

The Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter SKU costs $6,155, plus client-access license fees. (These are prices for the Open NL version, which is the highest priced volume-license version.) ...

Windows 2000 Datacenter Server must overcome the Windows legacy of reliability issues before it can gain acceptance in the enterprise data center. Oh-oh. You just cut over the accounting system in ...

Microsoft has released the latest Windows Server build for people in the Windows Server Insider Program with the build number 25997. It adds SMB over QUIC in the Datacenter and Standard editions.

Windows Server Datacenter: Azure Edition isn’t a new version of Windows Server, but for Azure users, it functions as one. It’s an image and edition of Windows Server that is optimized to run ...

Windows Server Datacenter was a minimum of two 1-CPU licenses with unlimited VOSEs. "Now it is a simpler SKU that covers two CPUs in a host with unlimited VOSEs," Finn said.

Early adopters of Datacenter Server say the high-end Windows operating system delivers on reliability but could benefit from better vendor support and more flexible hardware offerings.

To use hotpatching in multi-cloud environments or on-premises, you will need a Hotpatch service subscription and an Azure Arc-connected server that runs Windows Server 2025 Standard or Datacenter.