WS08 is one of the most amazing releases I have seen since I have been developing and using Microsoft products (DOS 1.1, dBase III, 4.77mhz 128k Compaq Luggable). People often discuss the uptime associated with an OS in association with its stability. Some of you may remember the days when we purposely scripted the reboot of hundreds of NT4 Servers throughout the weekend in order to not have them hang or bluescreen during the week. Obviously, this practice wouldnt be accepatble today. Whats less obvious unless you have a few hundred servers with every flavor OS (Solaris, AIX, NT4, Win2k, WS03, Novell, Suse, Redhat, SCO, etc..) with monitoring (Netcool, NetIQ, Tivoli, OpenView, etc..), SLAs, some automation for opening tickets and so forth is that despite all of the Microsoft flamers WS03 is more stable and has more features than the others.

 

I have had WS08 Beta 2 running as a file and print server since its release on 05/23/06, and the Beta 3 since mid summer. I am now using WS08 RC1 as my primary development platform. That said the number of features in and the stability of the OS is amazing.