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Happy 30th Birthday Windows Server!

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Jul 28, 2023

1993. Whitney Houston was top of the charts. Jurassic Park & Groundhog Day premiered. And Windows NT was released.

 

That makes this year the 30th birthday of Windows Server, and we couldn't let the moment pass without getting a few friends online to celebrate and reflect:

 

 

Learn more about the groundbreaking capabilities of Windows NT 3.1 in 1993, and 30 years of innovation at https://aka.ms/WS30YearAnniversary

 

What's your Windows Server memory? Let us know in the comments!

 

Published Jul 28, 2023
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  • I am extremely happy to be one the dinosaurs in tech, that grew up and implemented NT Server 3.x in production.

    This way it's always possible to refer how much easier, faster, stable, greatly more secure and admin friendly it has become with each new release of Windows Server. In addition how much easier and faster it became to deploy it, starting with WS 2008, the ongoing modularity and reduced hardware footprint.

    Undoubtly it's one of my most favorite products of the Microsoft Software palette and one I am still working and consulting 30 years later.
    With its latest versions of Windows Server 2022, Windows Server Datacenter Azure Edition and Azure Stack HCI OS.

    3 decades are an unbelievable timeframe in our metier.

    Congratulations to Windows Server and the PGs involved into this classic and modern masterpiece 🚀