It was yesterday at the Worldwide Partner Conference that Microsoft officially announced the release dates for Windows 8 RTM with First week of August and the General Availability of Windows 8 by the end of October.But there was nothing announced about the upcoming server edition from the Software Giant.
But within a span of hours they have revealed the launch dates for Windows Server 2012.As announced on the Official Windows Server Blog,Windows Server 2012 RTM will be released in the first week of August,while the General Availability will be a month earlier than the desktop version,that is Windows Server 2012 will be available by the month of September.The Pre release version of Windows Server has been downloaded over 500,000 times,which is much more than any other previous version of Windows Server.
A couple of days ago we also reported about the editions,Data Center,Standard,Essential and Foundation Editions, which will be available at the launch.
Source:[Windows Server Blog]