The company will provide three more years of support to Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 when workloads are moved to Azure virtual machines or Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, which debuts ...

Deadlines have a way of getting your attention. On January 14th, 2020, Microsoft will stop providing security updates for Windows Server 2008, almost nine years after the last major update to the ...

Is Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) a competitor to Amazon or a vendor? The answer is both and that means that Microsoft (the vendor) will be bowing to pressure from Amazon and offering a simpler, cheaper ...

On the first day of TechEd here in New Orleans, Microsoft Server and Tools Division President Bob Muglia used the his keynote speech to share the event’s most anticipated announcement: Service Pack 1 ...

Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, as well as SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, are due to move out of extended support over the next few years—SQL Server in July 2019 and Windows Server in January 2020. For ...

Rackspace has launched a beta for Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008 cloud computing services. The offering, which was hinted at a few months back in an interview, will be fully supported by ...