[dba-Tech] Metro all over

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Tue Mar 20 11:50:18 CDT 2012


Oh good. Say what you want about Metro (or as some call it, MS Bob v2), but Microsoft made a good call here.

Hans



On 2012-03-20, at 9:42 AM, Gustav Brock wrote:

> Hi Hans
> 
> You are in luck. Windows Server 8 is core only. The admin interface is to be installed on an admin machine.
> On the server will only be the command line, PowerShell, and commandlets for this.
> 
> /gustav
> 
> 
>>>> hans.andersen at phulse.com 20-03-2012 17:17:22 >>>
> 
> I don't see why Microsoft would focus on making their server products all pretty & flashy. Wouldn't it be better for performance if you cut out all the sizzle and just have something simple like the Windows NT/2000 UI ? Personally, I prefer my servers not to have anything but the core OS. My Linux servers only have a command prompt and that's all. No need to waste CPU cycles on things like a Metro interface and Aero.
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
> On 2012-03-20, at 8:46 AM, Gustav Brock wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> And Office 15 including Access:
>> 
>> http://www.winsupersite.com/article/office/microsoft-office-15-preview-142569 
>> 
>> /gustav
>> 
>> 
>>>>> gustav at cactus.dk 17-03-2012 19:35:28 >>>
>> Hi all
>> 
>> The excellent Metro design will be all over. 
>> Now Windows Server 8:
>> 
>> http://images.isoftmarketing.com/WSnews12-Figure21331809959475.JPG 
>> 
>> http://images.isoftmarketing.com/WSnews12-Figure11331809752036.JPG 
>> 
>> /gustav
> 
> 
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