Chapter 12
Windows Server 2008 R2 Origins and Platforms
In This chapter
- Origins of Windows Server
- NT 4.0
- Windows 2000/Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2008 R2
or•i•gin n : the source from which something is derived
Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft's latest server operating system, has come a long way from its ancestor, Windows NT. The first version of NT to be released was NT 3.1, in July 1993. NT 3.5 followed in September 1994, and NT 4 was released in July 1996. The current release of Microsoft's business class workstation is called Windows 7 and the server operating system is called Windows Server 2008 R2. This chapter covers NT 4.0, Windows 2000/Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 and the differences ...
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