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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Windows Server 2012 will be released in September

 

Microsoft has confirmed that its management system Windows Server 2012 will be released in September. The company explained that manufacturers receive before the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) that can integrate Windows Server 2012 in their teams ahead of its release.
Toronto is still the home of an important meeting with some of Microsoft's partners and collaborators. The company has been informing its 'partner' on their future plans and timetable for their activities. In that event, the company announced that its highly anticipated Windows 8 arrive in October, confirming speculation about the system.
In addition to Windows 8, another of the products have remained to date of release was Windows Server 2012, server management solution company. As was the case with Windows 8, had speculated on the month to be launched and Microsoft wanted to dispel the mystery surrounding it in Toronto.
The company has confirmed that Windows Server 2012 will be available to customers in September, a month before Windows 8. Thus, customers can acquire the company's solution or update their servers systems before it is on the market the new version of PC operating system from Redmond.
In addition to announcing the availability date of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has anticipated that manufacturers will release to manufacturing version of the system in the first week of August. This is a version that allows the system to include equipment that will be drawn later to market with Windows Server 2012.
Microsoft also announced an RTM version of Windows 8 for the week of August, so the company's intention is to use the summer for manufacturers to bring about its range of equipment ahead of September and October.

Microsoft hopes to sell several million in its first year Surface

 

The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, has said that the company expects that its first 'tablet', Surface, able to sell "several millions" of units in its first year. Ballmer is confident in the capabilities of the device, but has not specified the exact sales forecast consider attainable.
Surface is one of the major bets on Microsoft for this year. This is Microsoft's entry into the market of 'tablets' as a manufacturer and its potential can make the future of the sector and partly by the company. Microsoft Surface is expected to consolidate a device that stimulates the adoption of Windows 8 by other manufacturers and that this battle to the current ruler, the iPad.
At the moment we do not know the price of the device or its exact release date, which could be in October with Windows 8, but each presentation makes clear that Microsoft is one of their star products. The latest to confirm it has been the CEO of Redmond, Steve Ballmer, who has dared to make an estimate of sales that could get Surface in its first year.
Without going to specify an exact number, Steve Ballmer has said that Microsoft hopes to sell "several million" Surface in its first year, as quoted by ZDNet. This is a forecast that, without being at all clear, to see the optimism that permeates Microsoft to release.
Ballmer did not want to give accurate forecasts, in part not to condition the release of the terminal. But he noted that sales of Surface shall be computed on the total expected Windows terminals sold in the next year, which will reach 375 million. Thus, it is clear that Microsoft is confident that both get Windows 8 as Surface boost PC sales and increasing the presence of Windows in the field devices 'tablet'.