Developers attending Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 workshop in Redmond, Wash., last month seemed to be impressed — especially with the new server operating system’s security improvements and enhanced modularity.
With its hardened core and new Network Access Protection, which lets administrators set policies that determine which client machines get access to the network, Windows Server 2008 offers greatly enhanced security over Server 2003.
And, in addition to dozens of other security enhancements, Server 2008 offers a higher degree of modularity that further enhances security and improves the operating system’s manageability.
But there’s another new, relatively unheralded feature that may make big waves: Windows Server Virtualization.
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