The only way to get extended support for 2008 versions of Windows and SQL Server is in the cloud. Here's why you should be thinking about 2012 migrations now as well.

Andrew Smith, General Manager, Partner Program Management at Microsoft added, “The Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure Specialization highlights the partners who can be viewed ...

With Windows for IoT and the Azure IoT platform, Microsoft has a unique advantage in delivering an integrated edge-to-cloud platform to customers.

With end of support looming for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has a new option for those users to keep getting security updates: By moving workloads to Azure.

Microsoft open sources WPF, Windows Forms and Windows UI XAML Library, and also unveils .NET Core 3 Preview 1.

The Windows Forms implementation as part of Microsoft .NET only runs on Windows, even in modern, platform-neutral .NET. However, there has also been a platform-neutral implementation of Windows ...

Microsoft is making available its first public near-final Release Candidate for its SQL Server 2017 database, which will run on both Linux and Windows Server.

The financial component is that both SQL Server and Windows Server have changed their licensing models since 2008 to core-based licensing.

At its Microsoft Connect (); 2018 event, the company announced that it's open-sourcing Windows Forms, WPF, and WinUI on GitHub, and that .NET Core 3.0 is now available in preview form.