ownCloud Decides to Drop Support for Windows OSes with ownCloud Server 8.1 | Linux Today

ownCloud Decides to Drop Support for Windows OSes with ownCloud Server 8.1

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Marius Nestor
Apr 15, 2015

The development team behind the powerful ownCloud self-hosted cloud server, have announced that the upcoming ownCloud Server 8.1 application will no longer support the Microsoft Windows operating system. The decision was taken because the Microsoft Windows Server support in ownCloud has not been ideal for a long time, and it always required all sorts of workarounds.

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Marius Nestor

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