

Windows Server Essentials was released to manufacturing on October 9, and was made generally available on November 1, As of September 23,, all students subscribed to DreamSpark program can download Windows Server Standard or Datacenter free of charge. A public beta version of Windows Server was released along with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29, The product was released to manufacturing on August 1, and became generally available on September 4, However, not all editions of Windows Server were released at the same time. It included a graphical user interface GUI based on Metro design language and a new Server Manager, a graphical application used for server management.īefore Windows Server was finalized, two test builds were made public. Windows Server received generally good reviews in spite of having included the same controversial Metro-based user interface seen in Windows 8.

Various features were added or improved over Windows Server R2 with many placing an emphasis on cloud computing, such as an updated version of Hyper-V, an IP address management role, a new version of Windows Task Manager, and ReFS, a new file system. The software was generally available to customers starting on September 4, Unlike its predecessor, Windows Server has no support for Itanium-based computers, and has four editions. Two pre-release versions, a developer preview and a beta version, were released during development. It is the server version of Windows 8 and succeeds Windows Server R2. WINDOWS 8 RELEASE PREVIEW EVALUATION COPY BUILD 8400 CRACK
