In this article, I am going to give an introduction to and where to get the pre release version of it called ' Windows Server 8 developer preview' including the.ISO image, but let us give some background on the versioning. The naming of Windows operating system was a mess in the past.
They have interchangeably used serial version numbers and the year based version number for both client and server version of their Windows operating system. Take a look at the version numbers of previous versions of Windows: Windows 95 - client operating system Windows NT - Server Windows 98 - client Windows ME - client Windows 2000 - server Windows XP - client Windows 2003 - server - client Windows 2008 - server Windows 8 - client Windows Server 8 - server If you look at the versions prior to Windows 8, you can get easily confused on what is a client version and what is a server version.