In last week’s post, I outlined how the Windows Azure Pack can help developers write software once for both their Azure cloud platform and their in-house Windows Server 2012 servers. Since then, many ...

Microsoft provided details this month about its Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials product to come, which is designed for small-to-medium (SMB) businesses as a "first server" product. Microsoft ...

Not too surprisingly, given the two teams work in lockstep, Microsoft has released to manufacturing Windows Server 2012 R2, alongside Windows 8.1 client. Windows Server 2012 R2 is the "Blue" update to ...

Microsoft achieved its "general availability" release milestone today for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. Microsoft officials had promised a big release today, with ...

Preview editions of Hyper-V 2012 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 pick up where the strong initial releases left off Hyper-V 3.0 was perhaps the shiniest of the shining-star ...

A preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 is now out, complete with a nag feature aimed at administrators. The new preview pushes related Microsoft services at SMBs via a dashboard that will “remind ...

10 cool new features in Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Your email has been sent Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials will now allow Essentials features in larger domains as a Windows Server role. See ...

Hot on the heels on the official news that Windows 8.1 has reached RTM status, Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2012 R2 has also gone gold and has been released to manufacturing. As ...

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 ...

When released, Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition will cost 28 percent more than the comparable edition on Windows Server 2012. It will cost $6,155 for Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition ...

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WSUS 2012 R2 admins may face a difficult day ahead if a report from Cliff Hogan, posted this morning on AskWoody.com, is any indication. Hogan reports: What a mess!!! Microsoft Update upstream for ...