[chat] CLI Version of Windows?

[invisible ink <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to Rob Short, the vice-president of Windows Core Technology, there
may be a CLI-only version of Windows in the wings...

  Q: Why is there no command line only version?

  A: We're looking longer term to see what can be done, looking at the
     layers and what's available at each layer and how do we make it much
     closer to the thing the Linux guys have -- having only the pieces you
     want running. That's something Linux has that's ahead of us, but we're
     looking at it. We will have a command line-only version, but whether
     it'll have all the features in is another matter. A lot of the tools
     depend on having the graphical interface. Printing, for example,
     requires all the graphics subsystems because we have the "what you see
     is what you get" model. You need to have the whole of the display stuff
     to render it. It's a very tangled subsystem.

Fear. Interesting article though, covers a lot of competitive points, and
how MS is actually having to do a lot of work to keep up / match / overtake
the Linux world...

  http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2133899,00.html

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