Windows Server 2008

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Windows Server 2008 Part of the Microsoft Windows family Screenshot of Windows Server 2008 Developer Microsoft Website www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008 Releases Initial release RTM: February 4, 2008; Retail: February 27, 2008 Latest stable release 6.0 (Build 6002: Service Pack 2) (July 22, 2009; 3 years ago (2009-07-22)) Source model Closed source / Shared source License Proprietary commercial software Kernel type Hybrid Update method Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, SCCM Platform support IA-32, x86-64, Itanium Preceded by Windows Server 2003 (2003) Succeeded by Windows Server 2008 R2 (2009) Support status Further reading Features new to Windows Vista Features removed from Windows Vista Development of Windows Vista

Windows Server 2008 (sometimes abbreviated as "Win2K8" or "W2K8") is one of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems. Released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and officially released on February 27, 2008, it is the successor to Windows Server 2003, released nearly five years earlier. A second release, named Windows Server 2008 R2, was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009. Like Windows Vista and Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 is based on Windows NT 6.x.