Why MS remove Exchange from Windows 2012 Essentials?

Why MS remove Exchange from Windows 2012 Essentials and support just with Office 365 and Exchange on-premise?

I don't think Microsoft has ever said exactly why. Some possible reasons, pick one (or more).
1. Because Exchange has become too resource intensive.
2. Because Microsoft wants to drive small business to O365.
3. Because Small and Medium business were already flocking to O365 and abandoning on premise Exchange.
4, Microsoft built out all those expensive data centers and needed someone to use them for something.
5. Hosting Exchange on the DC has always violated best practices, now that there are alternatives no need to continue.
6. All of the above.
Larry Struckmeyer[MVP] If your question is answered please mark the response as the answer so that others can benefit.

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Thanks!

Hi,
à
"dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard /accepteula /productkey:<Product Key>"
Where
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to Windows Server 2012 Standard
à
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Hope this helps.
Best regards,
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A little more information to possibly close this out.
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' here...
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' here...
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I tested it with a simple form:
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Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
Option Infer Off
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My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop
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e As System.EventArgs) _
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Now when I click to show the first one:
A different image is shown because that first one no longer exists - either in the collection or in the folder.
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Still lost in code, just at a little higher level.

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[ Name] ASP.NET 4.0.30319.0
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[ Qualifiers] 32768
Level 3
Task 3
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2014-01-12T16:49:12.000000000Z
EventRecordID 72818
Channel Application
Computer MYSERVER.MYDOMAIN.local
Security
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3005
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Hi,
Before going further, would you please let me confirm something firstly?
Would you please let me know if all Android devices
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Based on your description, when logon a desktop computer, you will download files via RWA successfully. Please use the user account which logon computer to logon
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Please check if there has enough free space in Android devices that be used to save download.
When this issue occurred, please check the state of Android device in Dashboard. Besides, I suggest you should run the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) and fix all
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