These hyper-complex simulations you're talking about eat up server space on a scale exponentially beyond what we're using now.
We'll admit that most of our attention as end users will be focused on what happens several weeks from now, but if you're one of those rare server operators that can't wait to start testing a new OS release almost immediately, you've got a head start on most of us.
ENGADGET: Microsoft delivers Windows Server 2012, puts the enterprise on cloud 8
If you're planning to set up your server as a Linux box, you probably don't need any further instruction from us.
All you need is a computer and a server, and you're in business.
"Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job, " McCarron said.
Another feature rolling out is "Free Preview" which lets viewers watch before they're finished logging in, while a Server Side API on the way should open up access to more apps on more devices.
Now that its successor is available, you're unlikely to hear much excitement for Windows Server 2008 around IT water coolers, but that's not to suggest it'll fade into oblivion anytime soon.
ENGADGET: Microsoft extends free Windows Server 2008 support through January 15th, 2015
Wachovia analyst Phillip Rueppel says the beta version of Microsoft's Hyper-V isn't wowing customers because it lacks some critical features, such as so-called live migration, the ability to move operating systems and applications from one server to another while they're running.
If your server is a Windows box and you're unfamiliar with the vicissitudes of cross-platform networking, you'll have to do a little bit of research on best practices for smooth communications between the two.
The user interface on the Home Media Server and clients is based on HTML5, which we're told is why it's so snappy and switches so quickly between other apps like YouTube and HSN's Shop By Remote.
You're just a piece of aluminium coated in some sort of magnetic substance in a server farm located in a country where the climate makes it economically viable to keep the machines at constant temperature.
Forget Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 is where it's at... if you're a corporate IT manager, that is.
ENGADGET: Microsoft delivers Windows Server 2012, puts the enterprise on cloud 8
"If you just talk about server consolidation and you don't talk about remaking a business, you're not seeing the whole picture, " says Irving Wladawsky-Berger, general manager of IBM's on-demand business.
We're working with the cable industry and the telco industry on that piece and then we do all this server software for them.
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