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Windows Server 2012 has now been released after extensive beta testing. It's the biggest update/re-write of Windows Server in ten years, with many new features and also many improvements. The biggest areas of impact are likely to be on virtualisation, support for the Cloud and an improved approach to administration.

A few of the key points are:

• Hyper-V has been significantly improved in order to compete with VMware in the virtualisation market
• There are many features aimed at the Cloud, including multi-tenancy and the ability to mix traditional server environments, with private and public Clouds
• There is a new file system aimed at overcoming the failings of NTFS
• It can be run purely via scripts, using PowerShell, with no graphical user interface (GUI) if preferred
• It is much more modular, which allows changes to be made via configuration rather than complete re-installation (the GUI can be turned on or off via configuration for example)

It's likely that adoption will follow the traditional path … of allowing it to mature for while (let someone else find the bugs), but there are many positives.

Microsoft seem to be getting a lot right of late!