Windows Server 2008 has the same code base as Windows Vista, which in result has a number of similarities. On 23 rd May 2006 and the last beta was released on 24 th September 2007. One was released on 27 th July 2005, the second version was released Total of 3 beta versions were released before the official release. The Windows 2008 server has the codename of “Longhorn”. More than 240 million licenses of Windows 7 were sold.
The Windows Server 2008 R2 was released with Windows 7.
Windows Server 2008 was the successor of Windows Server 2003 which was released almost 5 years ago. The operating system was published on 27, February 2008. Windows Server 2008 is a server operating system developed by Microsoft.