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Public Preview: Windows Server 2025 now available

Published date: July 5, 2024

Windows Server 2025 delivers advanced security, new Azure hybrid features, a high-performance platform for your existing apps and AI workloads, and a modernized Windows Server experience. With this new release you will see investments in:

  • A rich set of security innovations including new capabilities in Active Directory, Server Message Block (SMB) improvements including SMB over QUIC, and security updates with fewer reboots.
  • Improved hybrid capabilities like Software-defined network (SDN) multisite features allowing native L2 and L3 connectivity for workloads in multiple locations, flexible hybrid and multicloud management tools, and easier onboarding to Azure Arc.
  • New features for AI, performance, and scale such as GPU partitioning across virtual machines, vastly improved Hyper-V performance and scalability, and easy upgrades through Windows Update to name a few.

Learn more.