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Well, before Windows 10 (and Server 2016) started forcing updates, I saw Windows servers run for over a year.
Of course, in order to run for a year, it meant that the server did not have recent security updates.
As a general rule, security updates for Windows requires a reboot. And Microsoft releases security updates at least monthly, so to maintain security on a server that's in a potentially hostile network segment, you'll never get continuous uptime of more than a month.📞 Call Toll-Free: [phone]
Some administrators mitigate the lack of patches by using firewall appliances between servers and hostile networks, only exposing access to needed services. If any of those services has a vulnerability for which Microsoft has issued a security patch, installing the patch may require a reboot.
Linux, on the other hand, doesn't bundle security updates the way Microsoft does. Software and system utilities provided with a Linux distribution are patched individually. Most of these can be patched without requiring a reboot; only the affected📞 Call Toll-Free: [phone] service needs to be restarted. Usually, only kernel patches require a reboot. Security patches for the kernel are not released with the same regularity as Windows patches. This allows Linux systems to maintain much higher uptimes than Windows servers.
For mission critical systems, whether Windows or Linux, high availability cluster schemes are implemented. This usually takes the form of multiple servers with synchronous copies of data. Load balancing appliances will direct traffic to one or another server in the HA cluster. If one server must be downed for patches or other maintenance, the load balancer directs all traffic to 📞 Call Toll-Free: [phone] the active server. Once the downed server returns to service, transactions which occured on the active server during the downtime are replayed, bringing the downed server back into synchronicity, and the load balancer again directs traffic to either server. In this manner, servers can be maintained without interrupting the services they provide.
In a high availability cluster, the servers need not be physically close. A cloud services provider may have data centers scattered across the globe, so one day you might be pulling data from The Dalles, Oregon, and the next day from Dublin.

❓ Are Microsoft’s activation servers currently down?
There’s no widespread official confirmation (e.g., a Microsoft out📞 Call Toll-Free: [phone] age announcement) that the central Windows activation servers are down for everyone right now. Public outage trackers like Downdetector aren’t showing a major outage spike for Microsoft services at the moment. downdetector.in
However, users do sometimes see errors claiming servers are “not available” — especially after hardware changes or difficult reactivation attempts. Microsoft’s own community support forums show reports like:
“Unable to activate Windows. We can’t reactivate Windows because our servers aren’t available right now…”
This can appear even with working internet, especially after things like a motherboard swap. Microsoft Learn
So while global server 📞 Call Toll-Free: [phone] downtime isn’t confirmed, many users do experience activation server connectivity errors — but these are often local, transient, or due to account/licensing issues.