Server vNEXT, most likely Server 2024. Client version branding is never used. Let's keep it accurate.
Let's keep descriptive, w/o unnecessary pedantism. MS and who opened this thread made already a pretty good job to obfuscate the matter even w/o your help. Server 11, provides an immediate meaning to what we're talking about, just like server 7/ server 10 did back in the days. Possible, but if the news that LTSC will be released in 2024 is true, is likely that Server 11 will be released after it, say September 2024 In that case it will be branded Server 2025.
Server vNEXT (which is the actual name, so why not just call it what it is? Nobody called Server 2019 or 2022 "Server 10") is far from needing another year and a half of development.
Because it's meaningless, feel free to call it even mikey mouse, I still stick to the most obvious and useful name. I hope you are too smart to not understand that server 2019 and 2022 are both W10 based, calling server 2016 server 2010 made obviously sense before the 2016 branding was decided. After that point we had an official name since the beginning, so calling server 2019 and 2022 as "server 10" was pointless and would have been confusing. Remember the world is analogue, each situation is different.
"Server 11, provides an immediate meaning to what we're talking about, just like server 7/ server 10 did back in the days." You were the one who apparently did it not me. Server vNEXT is the name it goes by. I'd say the actual name of it that the company who makes it refers to it as is far from "meaningless."
Perhaps square minded people like you, should take in account that this thread may survive another decade or two, after possibly another 3/4 iterations of "server vNext" (which is not the name, it's just a condition... the official branding for now is Server 2022), and people from the future looking for some retrocomputing, will have to fight with idiotic MS names (and people who stick with them) instead of a clear indication of a server based on the same infrastructure as Win11. So, again, feel free to be pedantic, while I stick trying to be helpful and practical. Whatever there is a lot of work for you way before thinking to IT, what about US citizen that define their-self "Americans", what about people who call Holland the Netherlands?
Yes do resort to whataboutism. Always a winning tactic And again, you said "Server 10" was stupid, but it was what you yourself had called it. So I really have nothing to prove here. It's Server VNext. "when reporting issues please refer to "VNext" rather than Windows Server 2022 which is currently in market." It's not pedantic - it's just correct. It's a fact. You don't actually get to choose facts, they just are.
That prove my point. Thanks for confirming The naming scheme is so stupid that MS itself is forced to a long sentence take apart Server 2022 from server 11. Then (again) feel free to follow MS like a lemming, no matter if what they do make sense or not. I keep using my brain doing the right thing. That said you expressed your opinion, I expressed mine. Stop.
I expressed facts, which unlike opinions are facts whether you care to agree with them or not. The upcoming version of Server has been known as Server VNext since what, 2008? Fifteen years, it's not a new concept.
Most of the wars, the dictatorships, the dystopian regimes in this planet started because a random "genius" mistook his (wrong) opinion for a fact. Thanks God, in your case, the damage will be way more limited.