Command-line-only Windows Server in the works
WinInfo | at | by Mike
In a strangely revealing interview with ZDNet UK, Robert Short, vice president of Microsoft's Windows Core Technology group, revealed that the software giant is working on a command-line-only version of Windows Server. "That's something Linux has that's ahead of us, but we're looking at it," he said. "We will have a command-line-only version, but whether it'll have all the features [of the GUI version] is another matter. A lot of the tools depend on having the graphical interface. Printing, for example, requires all the graphics subsystems because we have the 'what you see is what you get' model. You need to have the whole of the display stuff to render it. It's a very tangled subsystem." Sounds pretty definitive to me.