Comments on: Another top 10 list of Windows Server 2008 features

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:31:21 +0000

Ivan, that depends on what you count as “end user”. If you include admins, then the productivity in your organization will certainly be increased. You can find plenty of other articles on my blog discussing the new features of Windows Server 2008. You can start here.

By: Ivan Chan

Ivan Chan — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:39:25 +0000

From the end-users point of view, is there any new feature for them? When we deploy the windows 2008 server, will it increase the productivity of the staff in a firm? I doubt for that. Most of the improvements focus on the technical interest but less focus with the end user point of view. May be the NTFS self healing file system can reduce the chance of down time as well as eliminate the down time ? But is it worth to upgrade to 2008 ?

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Top Ten Features of Microsoft Server 2008 « NI-Limits Blog — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:23:11 +0000

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By: Shan

Shan — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:13:10 +0000

I was also dragged kicking and screaming into Windows. I agree with you to a point, I guess I’m really harking back to earlier days when GUI’s were a bit less capable and/or reliable than they are now. It always frustrated me watching young(er) administrators search in vain for ages trying to find a graphic way of doing something that is straightforward from the command line. They just didn’t have that extra knowledge to fall back on. But back to the point: How many relatively inexperienced admins are going to fail to use the security/performance potential of server core because they are unwilling to give up the GUI?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:09:44 +0000

Shan, I’m also one of these aging geeks. When I first saw Windows, I predicted that this product will be a complete failure. My argument was that humans are used to use language to communicate and not to pointing at things. Well, we all know how wrong my prediction was. I think it is a general misconception that working on the command prompt is more fundamental. If you use “dir�? or the Windows Explorer to view the directory contents of a disk doesn’t make much difference. But if you really want to know some fundamental things about your disk you have to use a hex editor. And for this you better use a GUI tool.

By: Shan

Shan — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:20:34 +0000

I will find the take up level of server core very interesting. I’ve long held the belief that there is a fundamental difference between the way ageing geeks like myself (that is those who have been around long enough that their first instinct in a crisis is to fire up DOS prompt/command shell) run a network compared to those that came into the business during the GUI generation.

I often feel that the younger, GUI bound guys are missing something fundamental, because they just didn’t have to learn the grass roots of how a system works in the first place. Maybe the launch of server core will replace that missing link in the windows community.