Microsoft on Monday released Windows Server 2012 Essentials release candidate (RC), which is now available for download and testing. The announcement comes as a bit of a surprise because Microsoft ...

Microsoft released Windows Server 2012 Essentials to its hardware manufacturing partners today. The release-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone signifies the impending availability of Microsoft's newest ...

Windows Server 2012 Essentials software can be downloaded, but you won't find it on hardware for a few more months. According to a Microsoft announcement, Windows Server 2012 Essentials was released ...

Microsoft said that it has released Windows Server 2012 Essentials to its hardware manufacturing partners, signifying that the impending availability of Microsoft's newest server for small businesses ...

As expected, Microsoft is ripping its Windows Essentials suite of programs off of life support. The company will cease supporting Windows Essentials 2012 as of January 10. Customers can still use the ...

Microsoft released on August 7 a new bundle of free services meant to complement Windows 7 and Windows 8. Now known as "Windows Essentials" rather than "Windows Live Essentials," it adds some new ...

A preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 is now out, complete with a nag feature aimed at administrators. The new preview pushes related Microsoft services at SMBs via a dashboard that will “remind ...

Last week, Microsoft released the latest version of its server operating system, Windows Server 2012, along with a number of related versions and variants. But one member of the new Windows Server ...

10 cool new features in Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Your email has been sent Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials will now allow Essentials features in larger domains as a Windows Server role. See ...

The preview version of the next release of Windows Server 2012 Essentials, the version of Windows Server 2012 targeted at small businesses, is available and Microsoft has detailed its new features.

In October, we reported Microsoft will end support for its Windows Essentials 2012 suite of programs on January 10. That is just a day away, meaning Microsoft will pull the suite installer offline, ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...