Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th May 2007 22:17 UTC
Some of the changes in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2008 are a response to features and performance advantages that have made Linux an attractive option to Microsoft customers. One of these is the fact that Linux has less of a surface area, which led customers to believe that Linux is inherently more secure, Bill Laing, the general manager for Microsoft's Windows Server division, told eWEEK. "Having less surface area does reduce the servicing and the amount of code you have running and exposed, so we have done a lot of work in 2008 to make the system more modular. There are more than 30 components not installed by default, which is a huge change," Laing said. "We also have server core, which doesn't have the GUI, so I would say that is a response to the options people had with Linux that they didn't have with Windows."
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2007-02-11
I agree, and I still can't believe my own eyes; let's just hope it doesn't go the Vista way -- tons of features announced and none that make it in the final version.
The rest of the article is common Microsoft advertising, but this doesn't make the news go away. There's one thing that made me laugh though:
Asked if Windows was lagging behind Linux on the virtualization front, McDonald said: "I can't think of a time when anybody in production with a lot of virtualization has said to me that Linux is better than Windows in this regard."
Ugh, go away...