Windows Server 2025 is generally available. The latest Windows Server helps organizations optimize for the future while delivering the security, performance, and flexibility they need today. Drive productivity with seamless hybrid, multicloud and edge capabilities that adapt to business imperatives on-premises and in the cloud. Get ahead of what’s next with forward-looking threat protection, improved scalability and agility, and GPU partitioning that can enable ML and AI workloads.

Improve performance while staying secure through features including: virtualization-based security (VBS) enclaves and key protection; security baselines with drift protection; increased scalability for Active Directory, and hotpatching to streamline security updates.* Get increased performance with GPU partitioning across VMs, larger VMs with support 240 TB of RAM and 2048 virtual processors, and software-defined storage enhancements including ReFS (Resilient File System) optimized deduplication.

*Hotpatching for on-premises and multicloud Windows Server VMs is in preview. It will require an Azure Arc connection and subscription. Hotpatching in Windows Server Datacenter: Azure Edition continues to be free of charge.

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