Last year I speculated about a number of possible names for the next version of Windows. Windows Server 2012 was just one of them. Now we now that the quotes around the number 8 were not for nothing. The official name for Server is Windows Server 2012 which is matching very well with System Center 2012 and SQL Server 2012. How surprising!

The new “cloud-optimized OS” is due out later this year.

Read more in Mary Jo Foley’s blog:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-server-8-officially-dubbed-windows-server-2012/12475

Back in August 2011:
http://www.hyper-v.nu/archives/hvredevoort/2011/08/the-teams-that-contribute-to-hyper-v-version-3/