Windows Insiders, men and women that are opted in for Microsoft's early-access and feedback program, could get their first peek at how Windows Server 2019 will handle their enterprise workloads.

Windows Server 2019 represents a couple of "servicing models" Microsoft is now using to make the operating system to customers, and is also the one designed for long-time users who prefer the company's traditional strategy for software releases.

Microsoft announced in June 2017 that Windows Server, combined with System Center, would receive twice-yearly feature releases. This timetable, known as Semi-Annual Channel, resembles that relate to Windows 10, Office in addition a growing quantity of software Microsoft offerings.

It abandons year-based version numbers, like Windows Server 2016, just four-digit numbers that denote this year and month from a new release. Here is an example, the "1709" in Windows Server version 1709, identifies September 2017.

Windows Server 2019 belongs to the company's Long-Term Servicing Channel, which more closely approximates Microsoft's historical software delivery strategy all of which retain the release year dating convention. However, its first test build, 17623, offers businesses newer and more effective ways of managing cloud workloads and securing corporate data.

Arriving in Windows Server 2019 is Cluster Sets, a different way of moving application workloads across a software-defined data center cloud, explained Dona Sarkar, a Windows and Devices Group software engineer at Microsoft and head on the Windows Insider program.

"A Cluster Set can be a loosely-coupled grouping of multiple Failover Clusters: compute, storage or hyper-converged," stated Sarkar in a March 20 short article. "Cluster Sets technology enables virtual machine fluidity across member clusters within a Cluster Set," Sarkar wrote.

As to security, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) provides visibility into attacker activities targeted to the memory and kernel levels, as per Sarkar. Also new is Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard, a break-in prevention system that blocks suspected malicious files other suspicious activity that denotes the inclusion of malware.

Your Datacenter and Standard editions of Windows Server 2019 build 17623 are for sale to download now as ISO files.

On your computer front, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider preview build 17127. Notable changes include new profile pages searched by Cortana to tailor the virtual assistant's interactions with users.

Through this build users can also their favorite places, which Cortana uses to make traffic updates and reminders on when you ought to leave so that you can arrive at a destination by the due date. Microsoft plans to add support to a family event members, interests even more in subsequent releases.

Available is "Skip Ahead" build 17627 for Insiders who desire a preview of the items Microsoft has in store after it releases the subsequent major Windows 10 feature update this spring.

Although light on new functionality, and also include a fix a good issue which will cause a PC to crash in case user attemptedto access an online-only file in OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud file storage service. The emoji picker is back in build 17627 with fixes that prevented it from functional in previous builds. The emoji picker allows users that can put their personal imprint about the chats and various other text-based communications.