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5 unusual facts about Windows Server 2008


Enlight cloud

However, vertical auto scaling is only supported on certain opeating systems such as Windows Server 2008 (Standard and Datacenter Editions) and Linux distributions including CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux and Oracle Linux.

Hardware abstraction

Windows Vista and later (Windows Server 2008 and later for servers) automatically detect which hardware abstraction layer (HAL) should be used at boot time.

Iconics

ICONICS' current solutions integrate with, and are certified for, Microsoft's latest OSs, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.

Windows Server 2008

Hyper-V is hypervisor-based virtualization software, forming a core part of Microsoft's virtualization strategy.

Windows Internal Database, a variant of SQL Server Express 2005, which serves as a common storage back-end for several other components such as Windows System Resource Manager, Windows SharePoint Services and Windows Server Update Services.


Volume license key

For example, Microsoft software available through volume-licensing programs includes Windows Vista, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Office 2007 and many others.


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