A number of new capabilities, plus enhancements to existing ones, promise to make Windows Server 2012 R2 an even stronger candidate for the majority of virtualisation tasks most organisations need to support.
It's a new (virtual) world with Windows Server 2012 R2
The update for Microsoft’s flagship server OS includes a number of features to improve and enhance managing virtual servers with Windows Server 2012.
Apple OSes to narrow gap with Windows, says Gartner
Shipments of devices based on Apple’s Mac OS and iOS will close the gap on those of products running all flavours of Windows over the next two years.
Windows Phone ‘weak’, Huawei sneers
Huawei calls the Windows Phone platform weak despite using it as the foundation for some of the smartphones it makes.
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Windows Blue preview due at end of June
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Windows RT finds support from Dell
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Microsoft warns Windows XP users to move on
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‘Ditch Windows RT,’ says IDC
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Microsoft releases IE10 for Windows 7
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Hortonworks ports Windows version of Hadoop
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Microsoft to drop support for Windows 7 RTM
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Windows Store app releases all but halt
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IE10 for Windows 7 nears public release
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Hacker finds way to run desktop applications on Windows RT
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Yahoo Mail gets Web and Android upgrade, plus new iPhone and Win8 apps
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The 8 best laptops and Ultrabooks available today
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Mozilla suspends work on 64-bit Firefox for Windows
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Windows boss Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft
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