Windows Server 2025 helps you optimize for the future while delivering the security, performance, and hybrid cloud flexibility your organization needs today.
Key improvements in Windows Server 2025 include:
Security: As part of this release, we have delivered multilayered security enhancements, including Hyper-V for built-in hardware-based virtualization and isolation for platform security, increased scalability for identity management with next-generation Active Directory, Hotpatching that speeds security updates and improves uptime, and improved server messaging block (SMB) security, including SMB signing capabilities and SMB authentication rate limiter that disrupts brute force authentication attacks.
Hybrid: Get cloud agility anywhere. The new Windows Server offers hybrid, edge, and multicloud improvements including easier onboarding to Azure Arc, with ways to deliver cloud innovations to your on-premises servers, as well as better, faster networking and unified network policy across locations.
High-performance, future-ready platform: Discover improved performance that can help your organization prepare for machine learning and AI workloads. Get GPU partitioning across VMs with live migration and failover clustering built to support AI workloads; smaller image container size, and improved portability. Accelerate business-critical workloads: with optimized NVMe performance that lowers CPU utilization. Windows Server 2025 has a refreshed interface and offers a more consistent Windows experience; including easier upgrades, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Winget command line interface package manager.