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Understanding SharePoint 2013 products - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2013 New Features
Understanding SharePoint 2013 products
As if SharePoint itself wasn't complex enough, Microsoft has made it a little more complex by having multiple versions of SharePoint. Now there have been various versions of SharePoint since really SharePoint 2000. But in SharePoint 2013 we have four different versions of SharePoint. The first in SharePoint 2013 Foundation and Foundation is the most widely distributed version of SharePoint, because it is included with Microsoft Windows Server. So if you're in an environment where you are prompted by Windows to log on to a network, someplace nearby there's SharePoint 2013 Foundation that would be available for you to use. Then there is SharePoint Server 2013 Standard version. This is a separate product that larger organizations can purchase and install. It has all of the bells and whistles of Foundation plus a few more things: improved search and so on. Then SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise. Now SharePoint Server Enterprise has a lot more capability, because in addition to everything…