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Is Window Server going towards a GUI less OS?
- Aug 21, 2020
HotCakeXUnfortunately Microsoft has apparently failed to have anyone on their team that have been around for more than a decade. Apple hit it out of the park and took the world by storm and became a worldwide name for doing what? Making a GUI interface that everyone could use. However it is interesting to hear the comments of, but resources for a GUI interface. Last I checked computing power is exponentially better than when the GUI interface was created. Then I hear comments, but some nerd in a closed calls it a Toy OS cause it is easy to use. Great idea to make an OS based on someones EGO that someone else could do their job easier, really? The idea that a GUI makes something more security vulnerable? How, last I checked, with the exception of hacking the user, its harder to hack something with a GUI, there is no command line I can remotely run, and what the GUI does behind the scenes can be kept hidden....
Lets face it, 1) Microsoft is trying to compete with UNIX, however UNIX is free, so why if a company had the resources of IT professionals that have deep expertise with command line, would someone choose to go with Microsoft. 2) Microsoft is really trying to make it more difficult so that all businesses stop providing their own services and move it to the cloud with Microsoft where their data can be looted and held hostage by Microsoft. The data is what matters, and Microsoft wants to charge you per month, not once for a piece of software. Why would MS want to make a thousand dollars when they can make tens of thousands over years.
I am an IT expert and a programmer, and have been in this industry too long, but have the belief that when I want to make a small change to a system, I don't want to Google a powershell command, I want to see what my options are and check a box. Exchange 2003 was easy to make basic changes too, for example, yet on newer MS Email servers I have to figure out the terminology that will help me find a command I am looking for to do simple changes. Now take a small business that can't afford an IT guy, how can they setup a quick and easy file and email server? They used to be able to, now if they want ease of use they have to give their intellectual property to Microsoft.
If Microsoft thinks going from a GUI to a Command Prompt is the right direction, how out next we go from a Command Prompt to a COMPILER. Then you have way more flexibility and options than you would with a Command Prompt!
I personally can't see Microsoft ever ditching a GUI option for server and I wouldn't want them to. That said, I also don't believe that the GUI is necessary for a whole bunch of workloads that can be just as easily managed with the aforementioned tools. Less resource requirements and faster updates are great advantages when dealing with large server estates.
As for 1903/vNext being core only, I don't take that as a sign that Microsoft will be ditching a GUI for the next flavor of Windows at all. The semi-annual releases are aimed at a different audience, the features targeted more at DevOps/Datacentre improvements rather than long term stability and 'traditional' server roles so to me it makes sense that the channel that has relatively rapid development would not have the desktop experience because they'll want to keep the development as lean as possible, and taking GUI out of the equation simplifies and reduces potential bugs/issues. I think all of the new features get rolled up into the next LTSC release anyway.
there are however lots of settings that are neither included in RSAT, MMC nor WAC.
working with them require manual code typing.
there are also things like HGS that don't even have GUI in the normal Windows server
much less in the core version.
- DeletedSep 28, 2019Network Policy Server (NPS) is also among the items that can't be configured remotely via any GUI.