Microsoft published a few licensing details this month about its forthcoming Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 products. The documents are noteworthy not just for providing licensing details, ...

Microsoft is kicking off a nine-month promotion on September 1 which will offer VMware users free Windows Server Datacenter licenses for switching from vSphere to Hyper-V. The September 1 start date ...

Organizations using servers with more than 16 cores need to "stack" multiple Windows Server licenses to cover all cores, ensuring compliance with licensing requirements. Here's how. Licensing a ...

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Microsoft has released the latest Windows Server build for people in the Windows Server Insider Program. It has the build number of 25997 and, among many changes, adds SMB over QUIC to the Datacenter ...

Windows Server 2016, not likely to arrive until the second half of next year, is going to shake up the way Microsoft licenses its server operating system, moving away from per socket licensing to per ...

In the 2012 edition, Enterprise and Small Business Server are both going away. Four new versions of Windows Server remain with the new release, which could be released to manufacturing real soon now.

Microsoft's Windows Server 2016 isn't due out until the second half of 2016, but Microsoft execs are starting to communicate some of the licensing and pricing changes coming to its next server ...

Microsoft last week announced it will switch the licensing for next year’s Windows Server 2016 to a per-processor-core basis, a move analysts said is at least partly a grab for more revenue.