SBS 2008 Released to Manufacturing

For those of you, like The Quintessential Geek, that are fans of Microsoft's Small Business Server, you should know that the SBS 2008 was officially released to manufacturing today.

I have been playing with SBS 2008 for the past month or so and have been very pleased with its performance, functionality and stability. This is a product that I will definitely be recommending to my clients!

You can read some details on the Microsoft SBS blog at http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/08/21/sbs-2008-released-to-manufacturing.aspx.

-TQG

Does M'Soft want admins doing online shopping from servers?

This may be small in the grand scheme of things, but why is it that Microsoft continues to install its default Favorites with the browser? Microsoft has been doing this since the days of Internet Explorer 4.

Microsoft claims (rightly so) that administrators should not be Web surfing on a server, yet I fire up any IE installation on a server and I see that the browser is still pre-loaded with Favorites such as MSN Entertainment and MSN Sports.

It's always chewed away at my gut that browsers insist on installing default Favorites, or for that matter that ANY software installation installs Favorites, icons at the root of the Start menu, in the Quick Launch toolbar, etc. I always end up deleting them so that I have only the ones that I want, but it's just another annoying tweak that I need to make.

Be gone, o hideous, default Favorites!

-TQG