Stinkymountain writes to tell us that NetworkWorld got their hands on Microsoft's latest enlargement to the server OS market and had a chance to poke around inside Windows Server 2008. It seems that the new release is a vast improvement over older versions in both security and exploit but still lacking in several key areas. "There's even a minimalist installation called Windows Server Core that can run various server roles (such as DNS, DHCP, Active Directory components) but not applications (like SQL Server or IIS dynamic pages). It's elseways a scripted host system for headless operations. There's no GUI front end to a Windows Server Core box, but it is managed by a command line command-line interface (CLI), scripts, remotely via System Manager or other management applications that support Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), or by Remote Terminal Services. It's also a thinkable resource-slimmed substrate for Hyper-V and virtualization architectures."

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