Article - Windows Server 2008 Is Microsoft`s Leanest, Meanest Yet

Microsoft has done a noteworthy job in designing both security and performance into the new Windows Server 2008 operating system as reflected in the following review by e-Week: 

Article - Windows Server 2008 Is Microsoft`s Leanest, Meanest Yet
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Windows-Server-2008-Is-Microsofts-Leanest-Meanest-Yet/

QUOTE: Networking enhancements, a reduced attack surface and virtualization capabilities earn Windows Server 2008 eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice award.  "Faster" and "slimmer" are two adjectives to which few software product upgrades can lay legitimate claim—particularly if the software upgrade in question is a Windows operating system. 

And, yet, Microsoft's Windows Server 2008, which recently hit the  RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone, demonstrates that Microsoft is capable of producing a lean, mean server machine—and doing it, no less, atop the same code base that backs the company's oft-maligned Windows Vista client operating system.

Slideshow of key features
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/eWEEK-Labs-Walkthrough-Windows-Server-2008/

Below is also the home page for the new W/2008 server operating system: 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx