Microsoft Officially Unveils Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

If news of a Workstation-grade version of Windows sounds like something you've heard before, it's because details almost Windows 10 Pro for Workstations leaked back in June. But this week, Microsoft is officially announcing its existence and the features offered to see the "demanding needs of mission critical and compute intensive workloads."

In a post on the Windows Blogs website, Klaus Diaconu, Partner Grouping Programme Manager, Windows & Devices Group, details the features of this new version of Windows 10.

Windows ten Pro for Workstations is squarely aimed at power users, and has a unique set of boosted features including ReFS, persistent memory, faster file sharing, and expanded hardware back up. Height of that list for a lot of users volition exist the expanded hardware support, meaning server-course Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors are supported. That means the electric current limit of two processors and 2TB of RAM will exist greatly increased to four processors and 6TB of RAM.

Microsoft is also promising faster file sharing by including the SMBDirect protocol. Information technology means support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) network adapters and therefore high thoughput, low latency data transfers with low CPU utilization. Add to that persistent memory back up through the utilise of non-volatile retentiveness modules (NVDIMM-Due north). It's basically very fast RAM that doesn't forget the data it is storing when the power is turned off, and in turn you get better crash resistance every bit well equally higher awarding functioning.

Finally, the other new feature being offered is Microsoft's proprietary file system called Resilient File Organization (ReFS). It replaces NTFS and adds integrity checking, data scrubbing, protects confronting data degradation, and boasts built-in handling of hd failure and redundancy. It's also setup for handling very large volumes of information, which when looking at the other features and hardware back up, is going to be essential.

Anyone interested in using Windows 10 Pro for Workstations will be glad to hear they don't have to wait very long. Microsoft will deliver information technology equally part of the Fall Creators Update later this year.