Windows Vista—a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system—was available in six different product editions: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate. On September 5, , Microsoft announced the USD pricing for editions available through retail channels; the operating system was later made available to retail on January 30, . Microsoft Windows Server OS (operating system): Microsoft Windows Server OS (operating system) is a series of enterprise-class server operating systems designed to share services with multiple users and provide extensive administrative control of data storage, applications and corporate networks. Windows Server is the sixth version of the Windows Server operating system by Microsoft, as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It is the server version of Windows based on Windows 8 and succeeds Windows Server R2, which is derived from the Windows 7 codebase, released nearly three years earlier. Two pre-release versions, a .
 
 

Windows server 2012 r2 essentials edition vs standard free.Windows Server 2012 R2

 
First, we will introduce basic information about Windows Server Essentials and Standard and Datacenter.

Windows Server Essentials vs Standard vs Datacenter

 
The Windows Server R2 Foundation edition comes pre-installed on hardware server with single physical processor and up to 32GB of DRAM memory. Server Standard vs Datacenter is purely licensing based, as they are % the same, technically. The licensing difference between Standard.