Seriously, that was my thought too. Even if we were to stretch credibility and suggest that general consumers don't care about this sort of thing, they just released this for Windows Server in the past year?

Windows really is a toy of an OS. It continues to blow my mind that people want to use it as a server OS.

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pjmlp an hour ago | parent [-]

Because it offers VMS niceties that UNIX clones still doesn't do, and stuff like AD, SMB, without manually going through configuration files stored somewhere, that differ across UNIX flavours.

Although I do conceed UNIX has won the server room and Windows Servers are mostly about AD, SMB, IIS, Sharepoint, Dynamics, SQL Server.

Naturally some of those can be outsourced into Azure services that Microsoft will gladly provide.

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minetest2048 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

And to run windows only apps like some embedded toolchains. Although that gives a motivation for us to move on to gcc because windows is annoying to be used on CI/CD and gcc is good enough compared to that other toolchain

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ch_123 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Which VMS niceties does it offer?

	▲	pjmlp 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Proper file locking, asynchronous operations across everything, ACL based security, proper ABI. Not being an OS from C to C as the main programming model. And then on top, multiple levels of sandboxing, including virtualization of drivers and kernel modules. Ah and RDP is much nicer than X Windows or VNC.