Windows Server 8 a radical departure

Julie188 writes: "While the world is distracted with the Window 8 client, Microsoft is simultaneously working on Windows Server 8. At BUILD, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation server OS under heavy secrecy to a room full of analysts and product testers. WS8 is radically different thanits predecessors. There's an argument to make that it's notactually Windows. The code they saw was pre-beta and an obvious attempt to put an arrow in the heart of former-'softie-turned-VMware-CEO Paul Maritz. Windows 8 Server editions are to be run in Server Core format — the GUI will be optional. PowerShell has gotten an overhaul and its command list will exceed 2,300native commandlets in Windows Server 8. Hyper-V has also been revamped and will become massively scalable in the number of VMs supported and in the size of each VM."