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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2007-05-17
You stated that Vista can't compare against several linux distributions, but you didn't provide specifics or any kind of proof, so you are full of it. If they had been good features you'd have listed a few at least, now you will go into ad hoc mode where you start listing things in linux that aren't in vista just to say you weren't lying but they will as I said be features you didn't want to talk about without being cornered so they aren't any good on the whole to the vast majority of people. And your comment on IE being removed despite MS saying this isn't possible is obtuse, they obviously meant within time and money restraints IE could not be removed but of course that wouldn't be true forever, they've rewritten the relevant code, something they couldn't do back then. You didn't know this yet I bet you consider yourself some kind of 'l33t' computer user. Hysterical.
Edited 2007-05-19 06:47