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Maximize your Windows Server investments with new benefits and more flexibility
Customers like you, with businesses of all sizes, have trusted Windows Server as the platform to run your mission-critical workloads for over 30 years.![a group of people sitting at a table](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IT-Pro-portrait-in-modern-office_Jaden_06-300x164.jpg)
Server Posterpedia v2 available in the Windows Store!
In today’s post, Martin McClean and Brian Lich talk about their Windows Store app, Server Posterpedia. If you’re interested in learning how Microsoft technologies work—for example, Windows Server, Exchange Server, Windows Azure, and SharePoint Server 2013—this is the Windows Store app for you. Enjoy! Kevin  Hi, we’re Martin McClean and Brian Lich from the![a woman sitting at a table using a laptop](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Smiling-person-working-on-a-laptop-3-300x164.webp)
Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 SP2 Now Certified as Common Criteria Validated Products
At Microsoft we are constantly striving to make the computing environment as secure as possible. Part of our commitment to security involves providing products that meet widely-recognized certification requirements. We are happy to announce that Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 SP2 32 & 64 bit Enterprise Edition (English)![a man sitting in a chair talking on a cell phone](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Two-people-on-a-tablet-3-1-300x164.webp)
Direct Edge stock exchange launches on Windows Server, SQL Server
Wednesday (7/21) was an exciting day for customer Direct Edge. They’re a new stock exchange, and are expected to handle 10%-13% of the monthly U.S. stock trading volume, which comes to an average of 1.4 billion shares a day. You can see news article here and here. Microsoft, and other technology partners, joined them on stage Wednesday as![a man standing in front of a laptop](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Meeting_Allen_01-300x164.jpg)
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) v5 toolkit now available
The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team is happy to announce that the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is now available!  This is one of the most useful and popular of Microsoft’s planning toolkits allowing customers and partners to automatically assess your current infrastructure and make recommendations for future capacity and compliance. The new version 5 release has![a woman sitting at a desk](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IT-Professional-working-in-front-of-a-desktop-computer-300x164.jpg)