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Absolutely. "MinWin" sounds so appealing people jump to the conclusion that it's running in the Azure farms or in other MSFT data centers. The next logical st
by reeses 14y ago
Absolutely. "MinWin" sounds so appealing people jump to the conclusion that it's running in the Azure farms or in other MSFT data centers. The next logical step from this assumption is that it could be a product.
It's almost unfortunate that the term ever leaked out.
- hp50g 14y agoIt almost is. Windows 2008 Server Core was a result of this. It doesn't have a GUI. Ita also what they run Azure on.
- reeses 14y agoServer Core does have a GUI as its primary UI. What confuses people is hearing that the interface is a command line. You still have a window (unless you're remote) and a handful of utilities, but they just don't run under the Explorer desktop or include a lot of what you might have come to expect with Windows or Windows Server.
- hp50g 14y agoIt doesn't ship with half the dependencies that were tangled up which is why minwin exists. Minwin has a GUI too (apparently you can trigger it during boot on win phone 8 :) )