Windows Server 2012

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Windows Server 2012, formerly codenamed Windows Server 8, is the next release of Windows Server currently under development by Microsoft. It is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 will be the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. A developer preview was released on 9 September 2011 to MSDN subscribers. On March 1, 2012, Microsoft issued a public beta.On April 17, 2012, Microsoft announced the product name would be Windows Server 2012.