The SmallBizWindows Software of the Year 2013: Microsoft Windows Server 2012

March 4, 2013 John Obeto

Quite a lot of software was released last year, of which the following were our finalists:

Microsoft Office 365/Office 2013
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows RT
Microsoft Windows Phone 8
Microsoft Server 2012

The AbsolutelyWindows Software of the Year 2013: Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Once in a while, software is created that is what I would call “revolutionarily evolutionary”.

Windows Server 2012 is such a product.

In a vacuum, it is the best server operating system out there.

When looked at respective to Windows Server 2008 R2, you find that there are so many improvements to Server 2012, that merely calling it an upgrade is doing it a great disservice.

The various components and subsystems that make up Server 2012 are a vast improvement over their predecessors in Server 2008 R2 that you may as well be attempting to describe the difference between Server R2 and LAN server.

Yes, Server 2012 is that much improved!

Some improvements are:

BitLocker improvements
Dedupe functionality
DirectAccess
Hyper-V 3.0
Hyper-v Replica
Live Migration
NIC teaming
PowerShell
SMB 3.0
Storage Spaces
Thin provisioning

We believe that the impact of Windows Server 2012 will be immediately felt.

We have felt it here, and just the manageability improvements alone make this product worth it.

Windows Server 2012 is our SmallBizWindows Software of the Year 2013

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