Microsoft’s Foundation – what a waste of time

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

So Microsoft has announced a new low-end version of Windows Server 2008, called Foundation, aimed at the small business users.

It doesn’t require CALs (hooray), but most everything else is a “booo”.

There’s a 15-user limit, and the server can’t have more than one processor socket and 8Gb of RAM. Oh yes, and there is no Hyper-V either. And AD has been nadgered too, of course. (more…)