The "default" install is headless, yup. Yet, if you want something usable in many environments, you'll need the GUI. We use third party (and Microsoft) tools th

The "default" install is headless, yup. Yet, if you want something usable in many environments, you'll need the GUI. We use third party (and Microsoft) tools that do pixels (and PowerShell still doesn't do everything). So if you were given the choices: 1. Headless (lots of stuff doesn't work, especially third-party utilities) 2. GUI 3. GUI without Cortana and other crazy ... which option would you pick? There is no #3, by the way. > it is fair enough that Cortana is there since she is (or now was) a part of Microsoft Desktop experience I don't care how you spin this, it's very bad practice for a "server OS" to download and run random code. Making Windows Server secure is hard enough without this nonsense. "Oh, Cortana comes for free with the Desktop Experience" is just begging the question, it doesn't make the underlying bad practices of that Windows component somehow okay.