WINDOWS Server 2003

Windows Server 2003

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Windows Server 2003
Part of the Microsoft Windows family


Screenshot of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Developer
Microsoft
Website www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/
Releases
Release date: 24 April 2003 (info)
Current version: 5.2.3790.3959 Service Pack 2 (SP2) (13 March 2007) (info)
Source model :Shared source
License :MS-EULA
Kernel : Hybrid kernel
Platform support: IA-32, x86-64, Itanium
Support status: Mainstream support until 13 July 2010.[1]

Windows Server 2003 (also referred to as Win2K3) is a server operating system produced by Microsoft. Introduced on 24 April 2003 as the successor to Windows 2000 Server, it is considered by Microsoft to be the cornerstone of its Windows Server System line of business server products[citation needed]. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005. Its successor, Windows Server 2008, was released on 4 February 2008.

According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2003 is more scalable and delivers better performance than its predecessor, Windows 2000.[2]