Windows Server 2012 will be released in September

The latest version of Microsoft’s server operating system, Windows Server 2012, will be released in September this year. Microsoft announced this at a conference for partners in Toronto, Canada.

It was already known that the new version of Windows Server would be released this year, but exactly when that would happen is not yet known. Microsoft announced when the software will be available for purchase at a partner conference in Toronto. The release to manufacturing is in August; a month later, the operating system is available to everyone.

Windows Server 2012, initially known as Windows Server 8, includes a new version of the Hyper-V hypervisor, with support for the vhdx format for virtual storage media. Virtual disks can now be up to 16TB in size, where they used to be 2TB. In addition, Hyper-V 3.0 allows virtual machines to contain up to 32 virtual cores and 1TB of internal memory.

A big difference with previous Windows Server versions is that Microsoft recommends running this version without a graphical shell. If the gui is still enabled, it will use the new Metro interface, just like Windows 8.

On Monday, Microsoft already announced that the new version of Microsoft’s desktop operating system, Windows 8, will be released in the last week of October.