Microsoft has officially ended all remaining support for the Windows Vista codebase as of January 13, 2026, after around 18 ...

Microsoft has finally ended support for Windows Server 2008, which means that the Windows Vista/Longhorn codebase is no ...

Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, fully retiring the Vista-era Longhorn codebase ...

I’ve been working with Windows Server 2008 since pre-release betas hit the TechNet download world. Initially, my focus was work-oriented, getting my job done. I had to deploy a few servers, and I ...

At its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft made it clear that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (R2) truly are joined at the hip. During the WinHEC Day 2 keynote, ...

It seems like only yesterday I was installing Windows Server 2003 and loving its improvements over Windows 2000. Even after Windows Server 2008 arrived, most of my Windows Server 2003 installations ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the first mainstream Windows Server release to be 64-bit only, meaning that older servers that don’t support one of the families of 64-bit processor extensions won’t be ...

With the end of support for Windows Server 2008 coming in January 2020 and SQL Server 2008 in July 2019, Microsoft is offering customers three years of extended support for the platforms if they ...

The latest small-business implementation of Windows Server, Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008), is now available for public testing, with an official release date of 12 November. However, ...

Microsoft released an optional update last week that adds a Disk Cleanup Wizard to Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. The Disk Cleanup Wizard removes the update files that pile up in the WinSxS ...

Microsoft Windows has become the platform of choice for many businesses today. And with the recent release of Windows Server 2008, many organizations are making the upgrade to this next generation of ...

When it comes to adopting new operating systems and applications, common practice among system administrators is to delay adoption until the release of the first service pack. Admins found plenty of ...