Microsoft Discontinuing Windows Home Server

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Published on Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:00:42 GMT Indexed on 2012/07/06 15:18 UTC
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As part of their ongoing push to simplify their product lineups, Microsoft is discontinuing their popular small office/home server platform Windows Home Server. On to see the new alternative for small volume users.

Although, in the context of the simplification push, it shouldn’t seem surprising, many people were in fact surprised by Microsoft’s move to drop the extremely popular and economical WHS platform. Now, instead of dropping $99 on a copy of WHS to build their simple home servers users will find themselves on the first tier of the new Windows Server 2012 pricing ladder: a copy of Essentials for $425. There is one version below Essentials, Foundation, but it’s currently OEM only.

Hit up the link below to see the new features and pricing structure of Windows Server 2012.

Windows Server 2012 [via RedmondPie]

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