Windows Server 2008 Overview

Windows Server 2008 is the operating system which will replace W2K3 (Server 2003).  My aim on this page is to give you a look and feel of this new server.  If you are more interested in an itemized list than an overview, then here are the new features.

Remember that Windows 2008 is a Microsoft server, thus you are going to recognise features from W2K3.  You may also see tiny bits of NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows Server 2000.  You may also recall that when each of those old servers was new it had a front-end make-over; so it is with Windows Server 2008, it has the latest Vista GUI.

Although Windows Server 2008 reports to be Version 6.0 (Windows Server 2003 R2 is 5.2), the progression seems more like the evolution from W2K to W2K3, than the revolution from NT 4.0 to W2K.  In addition to the headline new features such as Hyper-V, what we get is lots of small changes, each is relatively insignificant in itself, but together these little improvements add up to make Windows Server 2008 an impressive product.

It is also true to say that 2008/9 is make or break time for Microsoft.  Either Windows Server and Vista will work together to fuel future networks, or else Microsoft will crash and burn.