Even when the developer preview version was announced, Microsoft stated the pre-release version of Windows is code named 'Windows 8', but they did not talk anything about the official name. Instead, the industry analysts and bloggers assumed the name 'Windows 8' from various hints appeared in various Microsoft and non-Microsoft websites and documents. NOTE: Microsoft never officially announced the names for the upcoming Windows. So, the next release of Windows client is named Windows 8 and the upcoming release of Windows Server is named ' Windows Server 8'. As part of this attempt, Microsoft has named the upcoming versions of Windows (both client and server) with a sequential number '8'.

The naming Windows 8 appears to be an attempt by Microsoft to get away from this confusion and give a meaningful sequence numbering to Windows versions. In most cases, the server version is named after the year it was released. If you look at the versions prior to Windows 8, you can get easily confused on what is a client version and what is a server version. Take a look at the version numbers of previous versions of Windows: They have interchangeably used serial version numbers and the year based version number for both client and server version of their Windows operating system. The naming of Windows operating system was a mess in the past. ISO image, but let us give some background on the Windows versioning.

In this article, I am going to give an introduction to Windows Server 8 and where to get the pre release version of it called ' Windows Server 8 developer preview' including the.

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