SearchSystemsChannel.com provides a nice little roundup of new features in Windows Server 2008.
The Terminal Services Gateway sounds very intriguing . . . Microsoft continues to deploy features that are eating Citrix's lunch. Maybe not, considering that Citrix does not seem to be putting much effort into its Terminal Services overal products like Presentation Server. We've had much more contact from Citrix regarding their push into optimization and performance enhancements found in NetScaler.
Another nice feature will be IIS 7.0, which is an enhancement to Microsoft's industry-leading Internet Information Services. Mostly pretty obvious enhancements in IIS - more modular, better .NET integration, better diagnostics.
Windows Server is absolutely vital to Microsoft (yes, understatement of the year -haha). It's the place where Apple and Linux still trail by a fairly wide margin (yes, I'm aware of Apache server and its popularity, but look at the numbers and you'll see IIS more than holding its own in that space). Largely driven by Microsoft themselves in their Small Business Server, business are more and more reliant on client-server-based computing. MS made a great play to release SBS and extend their Server product to small business, to ensure that their desktop OS, which is all but required if you're running a Windows Server, would remain popular and viable. No word on Small Business Server 2008 that I've seen yet, but I'm sure it won't trail Server 2008 by too much. Knowing Microsoft, they'll probably give it a totally different name anyway . . .
We're running 2008 Server on a test server and are just starting to play with it. Like Vista-versus-XP Pro, it's largely the same experience, but with a few nice little features and tweaks. Looking forward to the launch.
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