Windows Server 2008 One Year On — Hit Or Miss?

magacious writes "Friday marked a year to the day since Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008, but did it have quite the impact the so-called software giant expected, or did it make more of a little squeak than a big bang? Before its arrival on 27 February 2008, it had been five long years since the release of the last major version of Windows Server. In a world that was moving on from simple client/server applications, and with server clouds on the horizon, Windows Server 2003 was looking long in the tooth. After a year of 'Vista' bashing, Microsoft needed its server project to be well received, just to relieve some pressure. After all, this time last year, the panacea of a well-received Windows 7 was still a long way off. So came the new approach: Windows Server 2008."

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Re:I expected more driver support

[Colonel Korn]

Basic Open Source versus Proprietary issue. It's a lot easier for a hardware company to get drivers added to Linux distros than to Windows install disks.

They must be trying harder on Windows then, considering that the vast majority of hardware just works in Vista off the install disk but much, much more manual intervention is required in at least Debian and Ubuntu. Open source does make it technically easier for a vendor to get a driver into a distro (and cheaper), but most vendors just don't care. The GP's case is definitely the exception, not the rule.