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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2005-07-10
Yes I am aware of that but it is not open source and it is a not full blown Linux. It is a custom linux kernel.
They could very well take any other open OS to build it like BSD or Solaris. They used Linux due to wider driver support.
Correction: I was wrong. According to wikipedia, they use Linux kernel only for their service console. So I don't think it really built on Linux. That clears my doubt on why it is not open source.
Edited 2007-05-19 03:34