Question

- Write the key features of each operating system (on your own words)

Client Operating System	Key features
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows 10

Server Operating System	Key features
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019

                                                   

Answer 1

The key features of Operating System is provided below:

Client Operating System	Key Features
Windows 7	The key features of W7 includes the feature of advancement of handwriting recognition, touch, speech. It also supports the virtual hard disks, some more formats of file, performance of the multiprocessor is being improved. The boot and the kernel performance is also getting improved.
Windows 8	Windows 8 includes new feature named as Windows Runtime platform which is used for creating new applications known as Windows Store Apps. Windows 8 also supports the x86 Pcs and ARM tablets. It includes the tiles based user interface (UI). In order to run two apps in windows 8, snap multitasking is there with Windows 8. It also have two touch keyboards. One is of enhanced traditional keyboard along with new thumbs keyboard for non-touch typing.
Windows 8.1	In Windows 8.1, the option of Help & Tips are directly be getting through the mouth of Microsoft. In Windows 8.1, the start button is directly move to the Modern user interface screen of start that displays the apps and window stores. Also, having a right click menu in new start button that redirects to the quick access to the functions, device managers etc. Customize start screen also there with Windows 8.1. In windows 8.1, SkyDrive Integration keeps all the apps and the files directly to the Microsoft’s cloud.
Windows 10	Windows 10 has a web browser Microsoft Edge. This renders the new engine EdgeHTML. The edge integrates with the Cortana Digital Assistant for voice control, search and personalized information to the users. Windows 10 integrates with Cortana. Also, it includes Virtual Desktops.

Server Operating System	Key Features
Windows Server 2003	Windows Server 2003 having new feature of Internet Authentication Service (IAS), Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) and Network Bridge. It also having the feature of Four way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).
Windows Server 2003 R2	This is the new release of Windows Server 2003. The main feature of R2 is Virtual server 2005. It helps to execute four virtual machines in the operating system of R2 without having any licensing cost. Microsoft .Net framework 2.0. It is very helpful for building highly scalable web applications. It supports both 32 and 64 bits of web application. This improves the performance, enhance web logging and new management console. R2 also has Print Management Console that is used for multiple print servers that helps to get the status of print jobs, manage the print drivers and ports. R2 has Active Directory Federation Services that helps to share the information across the organization boundaries.
Windows Server 2008	The Windows server 2008 has the Microsoft .Net framework of 3.0. It is having the Simple mail transfer protocol server, Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client etc. Also, having Telnet server and client. Having Windows server backups, Wireless LAN service, Windows internal Database etc.
Windows Server 2008 R2	In Windows Server 2008 R2, the operating system is highly being integrated with the client edition of windows 7. It improves the scalability, availability etc. It also improves the power consumption.
Windows Server 2012	Windows server 2012 having the feature set of virtualization Hyper V. Having the management system of IP addressing. It is used for locating and managing IP addresses spaces on the network. Server 2012 also take care of the problems related to IP address. It is being solved by network virtualization. Server 2012 has the default installation option on order to install the GUI less server core.
Windows Server 2012 R2	In R2, client deployment and server deployment adding new feature essentials. In R2, server storage creates the shared folders just like home folder on the secondary server. The Health report is now integrated with R2, no need to install it as an add-in. Branch Cache improves the data access.
Windows Server 2016	In server 2016, ReFS is coming that provides high performance, high resiliency file system. Also, having Linux secure Boot. Having Storage Spaces that provide more affordable spaces to built the redundant and flexible spaces of disk. The windows server 2012 provides the nested virtualization to deploy the addition hyper V hosts.
Windows Server 2019	The Windows Server 2019 provides new experience of Desktop. The new feature of server 2019 is system insights. Some other features of Server 2019 is Hyper converged infrastructure and Windows server software defined datacentre.