Microsoft officially announced at the Microsoft Management Summit today in Las Vegas that the next version of Windows Server, previously code-named Windows Server "8," will officially be named Windows Server 2012, and will be released this calendar year.
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson told the audience that "nothing Microsoft has ever done has ever been as ambitious" as the features being incorporated into Windows Server 2012. Microsoft Principal Product Manager Jeff Woolsey walked through a few of those features, including Server 2012s storage pooling and the boosted capabilities of the Hyper-V virtual machine hypervisor.
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