Microsoft's Ward Ralston details GUI-less Windows Server
BetaNews | at | by Mike
We began our discussion by focusing on perhaps the most obvious strategy shift in the server division: the move back toward a less burdened kernel and command-line-driven operation, with the provision of the new Server Core option.
Although Server Core runs within a window, it's essentially a promoted version of the CMD.EXE command-line shell in Windows Server 2003. New utilities have been written for Server Core, in the classic style of the best MS-DOS 6 executables. As we learned last week at WinHEC, there's considerable support for making PowerShell the official WS2K8 command prompt, including for Server Core.