Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Tue 17th Jun 2003 19:25 UTC
Everyone knows what Microsoft does by now. What some people do not know is that Microsoft releases a system integration software named Windows services for UNIX. 
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the NIS/Activedirectory user/password synchronization and the Gateway services for NFS are slightly more exciting. of course, I doubt anyone would want to use that shaky NIS server for any real load, but it is kind of cool that you can synch up passwords. that's kind of convenient when you have 400+ users with windows workstations + terminal accounts and you're watching your helpdesk pull their hair out because people can't remember two passwords.
clients services for NFS and the NFS client are cool for people that can't quite understand using a ftp session, or manipulating files through a terminal.
if they ever expect it to be a migration tool like Services for Netware was, they'll learn the hard way. no one wants to migrate terminal services from unix to a windows telnet server(not even if it came with ssh).
another interesting feature is that the telnet server that comes with it seems to support NTLM authentication, but again telnet + windows = next to useless.