Server 2008 receives a 5 Star Review

eWEEK Labs has called Windows Server 2008 “Microsoft`s Leanest, Meanest Yet” and awarded it the coveted Analyst’s Choice Award.  "Faster" and "slimmer" are two adjectives to which few software product upgrades can lay legitimate claim—particularly if the software upgrade in question is a Windows operating system. And, yet, Microsoft's Windows Server 2008, which recently hit the RTM milestone, demonstrates that Microsoft is capable of producing a lean, mean server machine—and doing it, no less, atop the same code base that backs the company's oft-maligned Windows Vista client operating system.

The new Windows Server boasts a set of networking enhancements that dramatically boost file serving performance, and the product can be deployed in a new, stripped-down Server Core configuration, which significantly reduces the attack surface of systems hosting certain Windows Server roles. Toss in a more modular and securable Web server in IIS (Internet Information Services) 7.0, Microsoft's new hypervisor-based virtualization functionality and a host of management enhancements, and Windows Server 2008 merits eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice designation.

Check out eWEEK Lab’s tour of Windows Server 2008.

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• Anonymous
  February 05, 2008
  eWEEK Labs has called Windows Server 2008 “Microsoft`s Leanest, Meanest Yet” and awarded it the coveted