When the goal is better security and reduced management costs, Microsoft chooses to scrap the GUI.
By Chris Smith
There is irony in the fact that IBM--and its Business Partners--are charging ahead as fast as they can to put a GUI onto everything related to IBM i (i5/OS) while Microsoft, in its latest version of Windows Server 2008, is actually removing the GUI.
Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, has been available for almost a year. During that period, a number of interesting developments have come to pass.
When Vista was released, I predicted that the new operating system would be widely adopted in the same manner that other new versions of Windows have been implemented in the past. That was where I was wrong. Sure, I said, there are some problems and inconveniences associated with the adoption of any new OS, and Vista would surely have its share, but inevitably the rollout would roll on. Not true this time.
There are a number of reasons cited as to why only a fraction of us have migrated to Vista. The Internet forums and blogs are full of them:
If you've been around the IT block (and you only need to go 'round once), you know what will happen with Vista, the new Windows operating system. But this release marks the point where PC computing takes on a new direction.
By Chris Smith
