What is Microsoft Windows Server OS? - Server Operating System by Microsoft

Microsoft Windows Server OS

1. What is Microsoft Windows Server OS?

Microsoft Windows Server OS is an Operating System that developed Microsoft to use in the server computers or to use in the computers which are working heavily on duty by computing and serving functionalities.

Microsoft Windows Server OS is used by many industrial sectors in the world in business, government and non-government projects. Microsoft Windows Server OS is a pay to use product which requires users to pay to use the Server OS.

2. History

Microsoft Server OS do traces it's origin to the workstation operating systems which released on an early stage. In the initial days, the internet wasn't that popular and the connectivity wasn't available commonly like today. Because of that reason, Microsoft didn't really focus on developing a server operating system. Microsoft kept focusing on developing standalone personal usable operating systems.

With the later times, when the connectivity was more available commonly an organization started developing client-server architecture products, Microsoft started getting into the developing server operating systems that are specific for requirements.

3. Versions

There are multiple versions which got released after the initial release of the Windows Server OS.

Windows Server OS Version Code	OS Name	Released Date	Editions of OS
NT 3.50	Windows NT 3.5	September 1994	Windows NT 3.5 Server
NT 3.51	Windows NT 3.51	July 1995	Windows NT 3.51 Server
NT 4.0	Windows NT 4.0	29th July 1996	Windows NT 4.0 Server
			Windows NT 4.0 Server Enterprise
			Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition
NT 5.0	Windows 2000	17th February 2000	Windows 2000 Server
			Windows 2000 Advanced Server
			Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
NT 5.2	Windows Server 2003	24th April 2003	Windows Small Business Server 2003
			Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
			Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
			Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
			Windows Storage Server
NT 5.2	Windows Server 2003 R3	6th December 2005	Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2
			Windows Server 2003 R2 Web Edition
			Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition
			Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
			Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition
			Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
			Windows Storage Server
			Windows Home Server
NT 6.0	Windows Server 2008	27th February 2008	Windows Server 2008 Standard
			Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
			Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
			Windows Server 2008 for Itanium Based Systems
			Windows Server Foundation 2008
			Windows Essential Business Server 2008
			Windows HPC Server 2008
			Windows Small Business Server 2008
			Windows Storage Server 2008
			Windows Web Server 2008
NT 6.1	Windows Server 2008 R2	22nd October 2009	Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation
			Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
			Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
			Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
			Windows Server 2008 for Itanium Based Systems
			Windows Web Server 2008 R2
			Windows Storage Server 2008 R2
			Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
			Windows Small Business Server 2011
			Windows MultiPoint Server 2011
			Windows Home Server 2011
			Windows MultiPoint Server 2010
NT 6.2	Windows Server 2012	4th September 2012	Windows Server 2012 Foundation
			Windows Server 2012 Essentials
			Windows Server 2012 Standard
			Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
			Windows MultiPoint Server 2012
NT 6.3	Windows Server 2012 R2	17th October 2013	Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation
			Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
			Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
			Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
NT 10	Windows Server 2016	12th October 2016	Windows Server 2016 Essentials
			Windows Server 2016 Standard
			Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
NT 10	Windows Server 2019	13th November 2018	Windows Server 2019 Essentials
			Windows Server 2019 Standard
			Windows Server 2019 Datacenter