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A Run Through Windows Server 2008
amcdiarmid writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of Windows Server 2008 RC0 up on their site. It has a few good points, and at 19 pages is certainly 'in-depth'. From the article's conclusion: 'Microsoft has used the time since the release of Windows Server 2003 very well. The new Server Manager simplifies system administration immensely. Unlike Windows Vista, whose new dialogues still confuse even experienced users, Windows Server 2008 makes the admin feel right at home and in control ... However, it's not all sunshine, either. Although our test system used a beefy Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 with generous 2 GB of RAM, the Server's user interface felt sluggish with Windows being drawn very slowly ... Microsoft also gets low marks for failing to include SSH support in the operating system. On Linux servers, working without SSH is simply unthinkable. At least the Redmond company includes its encrypted remote shell WinRS. However, secure FTP is still a missing feature. The FTP client is being treated like an unloved stepchild, to the point where it is not even included in the Server Manager.'"
It needs all that memory for the new Windows Server Aero features!
Windows Server 2008 takes up 10 GB of hard drive space.
10?! What the hell's taking up all the space?!
Perhaps there's a 1080p movie of Balmer chanting "Developers Developers Developers"
Summation 2
Although our test system used a beefy Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 with generous 2 GB of RAM, the Server's user interface felt sluggish with Windows being drawn very slowly
That's what happens when you try to use beefy hardware with a cheesy interface to a porky OS.
I'm waiting for a "-1 somepeoplejustshouldn'tgetmodprivileges" meta-moderation.
"That would mean that a two-processor (=socket) license would allow the use of up to eight cores with current processors!"
How generous of Microsoft!
Except, of course, for the great firewall of China. That's a wall. It's a great wall.
Palm trees and 8
That's what happens when you try to use beefy hardware with a cheesy interface to a porky OS.
It looks like Microsoft has already put Windows on the Atkins diet!
By 2010 Windows will either suffer a heart attack, or it will be nice and svelte!
I almost prefer it that way. I'd hate to think what a pig's breakfast Microsoft would make out of an ssh server.
It would be incompatible with every client except the new microsoft ssh client they'd release with it. It would be full of security holes until at least microsoft ssh server service pack 2. It would be unstable and sometimes require a registry setting to be manually edited, and sometimes not, depending on what order a seemingly unrelated update made its changes in. It would be integrated in to the os such that if the ssh server crashed, the entire os would crash. After enough people complained and enough law suits, they would introduce rudimentary support for non-microsoft ssh clients, but these would occasionally corrupt data. Then they would implement their own version of X forwarding. Not by using the pre-existing remote desktop connection code, but by writing an entirely new powertoy client and a server plugin. Horrible things would occur if one attempted to connect to a server that didn't support graphics forwarding when the powertoy was installed on the client. There would be no fallback option to overcome this feature. 640KB would be the maximum graphics memory that any single application could forward if everything else miraculously worked.
Have I missed anything? Probably.