A beta test version of Windows Server 2012 Essentials is available today. One big benefit for small business users of Essentials 2012 is that they will be able to perform "an in-place upgrade" to ...

Microsoft quietly published new pricing and licensing sheets for its coming Windows Server 2012 R2 product. The bad news: Those who want the Datacenter version are going to have to shell out 28 ...

In part one of our three-part look into Windows Server 2012, we took a deep dive into the new licensing options. Today, we’re going to closely examine what really sets the two licensing ...

Windows Server 2012 Essentials software can be downloaded, but you won't find it on hardware for a few more months. According to a Microsoft announcement, Windows Server 2012 Essentials was released ...

Today, Microsoft officially releases Windows Server 2012, the first of its latest wave of new operating systems. It shares a few things with the upcoming Windows 8 client operating system, including ...

About three years ago, Microsoft announced the death of all older versions of Internet Explorer, including 8, 9, and 10. This left IE11 as the only supported version of the browser, which wasn't a big ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical-severity Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) ...

Everything you know about Windows 8 applies to Windows Server 2012; hover in the bottom left corner and you see the Start button, hover in the top left for the switching pane of other applications, ...

Microsoft on Monday released Windows Server 2012 Essentials release candidate (RC), which is now available for download and testing. The announcement comes as a bit of a surprise because Microsoft ...

Do you remember the comment in our last blog, Deep Dive: What You Need to Know About Licensing for Windows Server 2012, advising IT leaders to be sure that they can stand by the choices they make to ...