Microsoft had four different SKUs for Windows Server 2012. Essentials was the cheapest at $425, followed by Standard at $882, and then there was the Datacenter SKU at $4.809. There was another SKU ...

(1) See Windows Server Essentials. (2) A suite of free Windows ... The "Live" brand was dropped with Wave 5 in 2012 when the suite became Windows Essentials. See Windows Live.