ATX/ITX mobos are designed for PC's not servers.
Microservers are likely to be headless (little/no video) and have more limited per-board extensibility, i.e. IDE/PCI/PCX/etc.
The microserver standard would be more about packing server cards into large racks of servers in data centers/containers.
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