What's new in Windows Server 2025
This article describes some of the newest developments in Windows Server 2025, which boasts advanced features that improve security, performance, and flexibility. With faster storage options and the ability to integrate with hybrid cloud environments, managing your infrastructure is now more streamlined. Windows Server 2025 builds on the strong foundation of its predecessor while introducing a range of innovative enhancements to adapt to your needs.
The next version of Windows Server will shake up several longstanding practices with the server OS that admins will want to know before its release date.
Windows Server 2025, which will most likely reach general availability during the Microsoft Ignite 2024 show in November, should be largely familiar to admins who have worked with earlier Windows Server versions. But some aspects of the new server OS will be quite distinctive compared to prior Windows Server versions.
What's new
The following new features are specific to Windows Server with Desktop Experience only. Having both the physical devices running the operating system and the correct drivers readily available are required.
Changes to Windows Server licensing
One big adjustment for organizations that rely on Windows Server is Microsoft's plan to introduce a subscription-based, pay-as-you-go licensing model. Contrary to some rumors, Microsoft is not forcing all Windows Server customers into the subscription plan.
Microsoft plans to keep the perpetual license model, which provides five years of mainstream support followed by five years of extended support. With Windows Server 2025, Microsoft will offer a subscription model for organizations that need flexibility.
For example, if an organization hosts an e-commerce application that sees a major demand spike around the holidays, then it could use Windows Server 2025 with a pay-as-you-go license to roll out temporary servers to handle this period of peak activity. This approach gives the business a more affordable option to cope with these seasonal surges without making a major investment for resources needed for part of the year.
Enterprises that wish to use the new pay-as-you-go licensing for Windows Server 2025 must use Azure Arc -- a cross-platform management tool for enterprise workloads -- and the related charges will be billed through Azure.
Hotpatching coming to all Windows Server 2025 editions
Hotpatching is currently available in Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition, but Microsoft plans to add this feature to the Standard and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2025.
Storage improvements in Windows Server 2025
- Windows Server 2025 will use non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage. Microsoft claimed customers will see a 70% increase in IOPS when using Windows Server 2025 with NVMe storage.
- Windows Server 2025 will support NVMe over Fabrics for faster data transfer speeds
- a storage protocol that uses Transport Layer Security 1.3 to encrypt SMB trafficwill be available in Windows Serve 2025 Standard, Datacenter and Azure editions.
- Generation 2 VMs will replace generation 1 VMs as the default choice when creating new VMs
- Windows Server 2025 is dynamic processor compatibility. With current versions of Windows Server, a live migration of VMs between two Hyper-V hosts requires using servers with identical CPUs or enabling processor compatibility mode, which makes CPUs function at the most basic level
- Microsoft plans to debut GPU partitioning (GPU-P) support, which gives the user a way to employ the processing power of the server's GPU and share it among multiple VMs.
Support for Microsoft 365 Apps
Windows Server 2025 will support Microsoft 365 Apps until the end of the five-year mainstream period.
You can now add the following accounts in Settings > Accounts > Email & accounts for Windows Server 2025: Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft account and Work or school account
File Compression
Windows Server 2025 has a new compression feature when compressing an item by performing a right-click called Compress to. This feature supports ZIP, 7z, and TAR compression formats with specific compression methods for each.
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