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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RE[10]: Good direction from Microsoft
by CrazyDude0 on Sat 19th May 2007 17:24
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RE[11]: Good direction from Microsoft
by alexandru_lz on Sat 19th May 2007 18:38
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[Sorry to break an otherwise interesting discussion about permissions]
The point was that, fast install or not, a "bare" operating system, with next to no applications installed, takes 10 GB. My / and /usr Linux partitions have a total of 6 GB and I have a ton of apps installed.
I'm not willing to start the usual Linux vs. Windows flame, but what the heck is in those 10 GB in the end? This is the big reason for me applauding a more modular Windows: I could bet I not only don't require, but wouldn't even install more than 50% of the things that get on my drive.
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hahahaa one of Microsoft main selling points of Vista is that eye-candy !
Tch, you just don't see the difference and you don't get the facts!
I have googled a bit but couldn't find a decent answer. I assume that Windows Server 2008 will come with PowerShell, or any other decent shell, by default, is that correct?
I'm curious to know this because the modular, GUI-less Microsoft server sounds like one hell of a dream for me, but there's no way I'll be using that CP/M-recycled cmd.exe. One of the reasons I feel like home on a Unix server *is* sh.
The other question on my mind is, if Windows 2008 got to the point of being modular, why didn't this happen to Vista as well? I'm still baffled at how a naked OS can take 10 gigs of drive space.