Windows Server 2008: Less is More
IT departments are conservative by nature, and with good reason. Change for change's sake just adds more trouble to the endless supply of troubles that IT departments have to manage. The new Windows Server 2008 has the potential to remove some of that trouble by offering fewer things to break. Certainly there are new features in Windows Server 2008, and those will be useful to many customers. However, I'm even more interested in what they are letting users leave out.
With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is continuing its push to lock down the Server product line by disabling and/or removing features out of the box. If you lived through the horrible exploits and worms that infested Windows Server 2000 due to its "everything on by default" policy, you know how important this is to security. Windows Server 2003 reversed that server-welcomes-all-exploits approach, and 2008 continues the trend.
