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Worldwide Windows Server Operating Environments 2012–2016 Forecast: Windows Server 2012 Ups Microsoft's Competitiveness
Jul 2012		Doc # 235571		Market Analysis

Printed Page Length: 48 pages
Number of Tables: 12
Number of Figures: 5

By: Al Gillen
Program Vice President, System Software
Team: Client Computing
Team: Directions 2012 (U.S) Participating Analysts
Team: IDC Predictions Team
Team: Infrastructure
Team: Open Source
Team: Virtualization
Team: Worldwide Software Research

Price $ 4,500.00

Abstract

This IDC study reviews the growth of the Windows Server product family during 2011 and provides shipment and installed base forecast through 2016 for Windows server operating environment products.

"Windows Server 2012 looks like a very solid product, and we expect that it will be a consolidation platform for existing workloads running on the aging Windows Server 2003 platform, as well as from Windows Server 2008," said Al Gillen program VP, System Software at IDC. "Customers are likely to feel some pressure relief from the Windows Server 2012 product."

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Subscriptions Covered:

Operating Environments

Companies Covered:

Microsoft Corporation

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Topics Covered:

Operating system virtualization, Operating systems and subsystems, Virtualized client computing

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