Microsoft to Pull Windows Server 2003 Support Next Year

Microsoft warns data center operators that hanging onto the long-lived server OS is potentially endangering their IT infrastructures.Windows Server 2003 will meet the same fate as Windows XP met on April 9. On this day, the server operating system will be available in the final phase of the aid that marked the end of security patches and bug fixes, said Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of System Center and Windows Server.

When new problems arise that the only way to get an extra updates are supposed to be on a custom support contract, Anderson said in a statement. Despite his advanced age, of Windows Server 2003 will be 12 when Microsoft shows the support the company has issued dozens of updates this year, Anderson said. "Even 10 years after the release of Microsoft still exhibited 37-based versions of Windows Server 2003 in the last year, but this regular maintenance will now end.

In a YouTube video of Microsoft, the company warns that physical and virtualized cases [operating system] will be vulnerable to any and all new security threats. Security issues aside, organizations have little choice but the server software, if your IT plan to continue to clean up mixing business. "Companies that run on Windows Server 2003 starts further to standard compliance checks fail," said the video online. Since its launch 11 years ago, the operating system of Windows Server 2008 and 2012 was successful. Despite these versions, Windows Server 2003 maintains close control over some data centers, Anderson said.

The fact of the matter is that it will improve a significant amount of Windows Server 2003 worldwide; it is estimated that there are more than 15 million physical servers, which can be updated over the next 12 months, he said. Migration of millions of servers to Windows Server 2012 Microsoft virtualization technology could offer Hyper-V, shown with a big boost to rival VMware.Anderson that many organizations use to increase as the moment in which the migration VMware to Hyper-V. "Windows Server 2003, Server 2012, otherwise, not included with the observed hypervisor.

When Windows Server 2012 was on September 4, published in 2012, called the Microsoft software as a "cloud operating system", partly due to its integrated virtualization capabilities of cloud-friendly. In its latest version (Windows Server 2012 R2), the operating system up to 1,024 active virtual machines (VM), 64 virtual processors per virtual machine and up to 1TB of memory per virtual machine can support.

Before its release, Microsoft said that the operating system VMware to win converts. Chris Avis, senior IT Evangelist at Microsoft, said at the time that Microsoft increase its "game, so we support a similar number of processors, a similar amount of RAM and be able to get the same amount of live scenarios levels do migration of Hyper-V.