Windows Server 2003 was a version of Microsoft's server operating system line, released as the successor to Windows 2000 Server and built on the same code base as Windows XP. It put a strong emphasis on security under Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative, and it included improvements to Active Directory, the web server Internet Information Services and file and print services. A later update, Windows Server 2003 R2, added further management features, and 64-bit editions were introduced a couple of years after the original release. The system was widely used in businesses and data centres for more than a decade. Microsoft ended extended support in 2015, which left many organizations facing a costly migration.
Before and after
- from 20 March 2003 to 15 December 2011Iraq War
- from 21 March 2003 to 25 March 2003Battle of Umm Qasr
- April 2003Publication of The Da Vinci Code
- 14 April 2003The Human Genome Project is declared complete
- 24 April 2003Creation of Windows Server 2003
- 9 May 2003Launch of Hayabusa
- 27 May 2003Release of WordPress
- 29 May 2003Publication of The Kite Runner
- 30 May 2003Release of Indonesian Wikipedia
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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