According to James Vincent of The Verge, this decision endangers Intel's dominance of the server CPU market. It was reported that Microsoft was working with Qualcomm Centriq and Cavium ThunderX2 chips. In March 2017, Microsoft demonstrated an internal version of Server 2016 running on the ARMv8-A architecture. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2019 and the Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel. Windows Server 2016 was released on Septemat Microsoft's Ignite conference and broadly released for retail sale on October 12, 2016.
The first early preview version (Technical Preview) became available on Octotogether with the first technical preview of System Center. It was developed alongside Windows 10 and is the successor to the Windows 8.1-based Windows Server 2012 R2.
Windows Server 2016 is the eighth release of the Windows Server server operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.
