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Paul Thurrott’s latest Ask Paul column is a wide‑angle look at a familiar set of industry rhythms — nostalgia for old games, practical publishing choices, the slow evolution of operating systems, and a messy, high‑stakes reshuffle at Xbox — and it lands at the precise moment several of those...

Fourteen years after ReFS first shipped as a data-centric filesystem with Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has taken the cautious — and consequential — step of allowing Windows Server to boot from an ReFS-formatted system volume in preview builds. This change, enabled in the Windows Server vNext...

Fourteen years after Microsoft first shipped the Resilient File System (ReFS) with Windows Server, the company has taken the long‑anticipated step of allowing Windows Server to boot from a ReFS‑formatted system volume — but only in preview, with strict caveats and nontrivial operational...

Fourteen years after Microsoft first shipped the Resilient File System (ReFS) with Windows Server 2012, the long-standing barrier that kept ReFS off system/boot volumes has finally been removed: Windows Server now supports booting from ReFS volumes. This change completes a slow, cautious...