Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases

Julie188 writes "While the world is distracted with the Window 8 client, Microsoft is simultaneously working on Windows Server 8. At BUILD, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation server OS under heavy secrecy to a room full of analysts and product testers. WS8 is radically different than its predecessors. There's an argument to make that it's not actually Windows. The code they saw was pre-beta and an obvious attempt to put an arrow in the heart of former-softie-turned-VMware-CEO Paul Maritz. Windows 8 Server editions are to be run in Server Core format (the GUI will be optional). PowerShell has gotten an overhaul and its command list will exceed 2,300 native commandlets in Windows Server 8. Hyper-V has also been revamped and will become massively scalable in the number of VMs supported and in the size of each VM." In related news, it appears that Java now runs on Microsoft's Azure platform.

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Re:Server cold war

[MightyMartian]

And is overkill for about 99% of the scripting I do. If I want a real programming language, there are far better ones out than the PowerShell. It's too much for a command scripting language, and too little for heavy duty work. As usual, Microsoft foists another ginormous tool on admins, instead of taking the more rational minimalist approach. But that's alright. I expect 90% of Windows admins are terrified of the CLI anyways.

Re:Server cold war

[MightyMartian]

I'm in the real world, you fucking prick. I actually run an AD-network with Linux member servers. I administrate a wide-area network made of multiple locations running site-based AD.

Quit your sales pitch. *nix has been running in the real world longer than you've likely been alive. All you've done is demonstrate how fucking stupid, ignorant and idiotic you Redmond shills really are.

This idea that somehow Windows is the only solution, that somehow running *nix makes you some pimple-faced geek sitting in his parents basement is absurd. So fuck you again, you contemptible arrogant product whore.