Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server 780
msmoriarty writes "We knew Windows Server 8 was going to be a departure for Microsoft, including an 'optional' GUI, but in a blog post made earlier this week, the Windows Server team said that working without the GUI will be the 'recommended' method, and is telling developers not to assume a GUI will be present. According to Windows consultant and author Don Jones, this is a big hint to Windows admins that they better get used to not having a GUI in future releases. From the article: 'I'm well aware that many Windows admins out there aren't looking forward to a GUI-less server operating system from Microsoft. ... I'm sure Microsoft has, too.They're proceeding anyway. We have two choices: adapt or die.'"
Computer solutions approach coming full circle (Score:3, Funny)
So, why is it called Windows, then? (Score:5, Funny)
3D Pinball (Score:5, Funny)
How are we supposed to play 3D pinball in the server room now?
don't call it a comeback, we've been here for year (Score:5, Funny)
ceci n'est pas une fenêtre (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our windowless windows overlords.
Re:So, why is it called Windows, then? (Score:5, Funny)
Or how about MS-DOS 8?
Re:Linux? (Score:1, Funny)
But the rest of the reasons are easy to fix. I mean, I'm sure someone would write a Linux program that bogs down the CPU, randomly corrupts memory and adds a few vulnerabilities. They'd just need to sell it for a few thousand per license.
Re:So, why is it called Windows, then? (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft Shell, has a good ring to it.
Re:So, why is it called Windows, then? (Score:5, Funny)
you missed an " ' " and misplaced a space
Re:It would be good to have optional GUI (Score:5, Funny)
there are 2 ways to look at this.
1. once again, Windows has copied Unix.
2. there is so much bloat that the GUI is the only place they can trim.
Flame on!
LOL
Re:It would be good to have optional GUI (Score:5, Funny)
SEEE!!!! I've been saying it for years. A well chosen name does more of for your product than anything else.
PowerShell... your users will think it's powerful while they Bash other shells.
GIMP... your user think it's a lame version of PhotoShop.
OpenSuse is not a reference to a lose woman.
Mono is not... ok, well, maybe it is a disease.
Wine... Will INEbriate.
C Shell phhh wat we at the ocean dude?
Linux will never catch on unless we start renaming things.
Re:you're unclear on the concept (Score:5, Funny)
You should have used a CLI to automate your paragraphs, which restated the same few (valid) points 6 times. :)
Re:3D Pinball (Score:5, Funny)
How are we supposed to play 3D pinball in the server room now?
Wait, you DON'T have a real, physical pinball table in your server room?
THIS is the year of Linux... (Score:5, Funny)
Suddenly Win Admins everywhere switch to Linux because its "easier".
Re:So, why is it called Windows, then? (Score:5, Funny)
I always think that when I see their new command line product
Microsoft Powers hell
Oopsie, another misplaced space.
Re:It would be good to have optional GUI (Score:5, Funny)
I suppose they can call it "WindowsLess or PaneLess" for the non-GUi version and call the GUI addon "PaneFull"
Re:It would be good to have optional GUI (Score:5, Funny)
Windows Cl is useless (Score:4, Funny)
I'm baffled by this because the Windows command line is absolutely, positively useless in every way. It lacks a proper history function, proper tab completion, proper environment variables, it is not possible to configure most things with text files, scheduling tasks is practically impossible, the multi-rooted filesystem is an unfunny joke, and most of all Batch scripts are literally, not figuratively, the least useful form of programming I have ever seen, including taking a shit on a keyboard and hoping for the best. The entire Windows stack is completely inappropriate for use in any business, let alone as a server, and thinking of using it without the GUI makes me fear and hate it even more than I fear and hate Windows right now.
No. No, Microsoft, no. No, no, no. If you want to make the world a better place, here is a three-step plan:
1. Discontinue Windows. Burn it in a fire, and then apologize for it.
2. ???
3. The world is a better place.
Re:It would be good to have optional GUI (Score:4, Funny)
You do realize that VNC by it's very nature is graphical?
Quoting to be found later in case I need a new sig.