Microsoft Nano Server

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2015/04/08/microsoft-announces-nano-server-for-modern-apps-and-cloud.aspx

scottalanmiller

This has been very needed for some time. A nice improvement and a move to compete with the rest of the world. Very much "playing catchup".

Deleted74295

But when Microsoft catch up, boy do they catch up with a bang.

They were late to the party with 365, yet it is amazing.

I think I'd take Microsoft's slower to develop route over Google/Amazon bleeding edge.

This is great. Odd thing Is a lot of IT pros are saying this is dumb and a stepbackwards.

Even better if its not licesened like normal windows. I could see this one beening free much like hyper-v.

scottalanmiller

@Breffni-Potter said:

But when Microsoft catch up, boy do they catch up with a bang.

They were late to the party with 365, yet it is amazing.

I think I'd take Microsoft's slower to develop route over Google/Amazon bleeding edge.

I don't know. Yeah, Office 365 is pretty great, but other than getting lots of high end MS apps, the service isn't better than what Amazon delivers. Amazon might be the bleeding edge, but they have been the bleeding edge of speed, stability and security. Normally the reason that people avoid the bleeding edge is because they worry about those factors - but those are exactly the factors that make you choose Amazon.

Slow development in IT means not just lacking features but often lacking fundamental capability. Azure is good, to be sure. But it's no AWS.

I don't think office 365 was too late to the party. If they did it any earlier they would have had more problems than they did anyway (and they had quiet a bit of problems early on).

Heck the place I'm going through the interview/background process with has had licenses for all employees for office 365 for about 1.5 years. But, It just takes so much time to move everyone they are only at about 20% of people on office 365 now. They have 3 exchange servers on site. and over 20TB of mailboxes. (Don't remember exactly how many thousands of users) But, yeah it take people plenty of time to migrate.

And if you have a lot of employees that don't need full on exchange, I'm thinking places where only managers get exchange but normal employee don't last long. Then Rackspace has a better deal for hybrid system with their email and exchange.