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Windows 8 Server: The First Version of Server to Contain System Restore?
It’s been a minute or two since any Windows 8 news hit the wire, but I just stumbled upon a rather old-yet-casual mention of a feature considered for Windows 8: System Restore. Now, before you say, “but System Restore has been around forever,” not a single Server version of Windows has come with System Restore implemented! XP’s System Restore could be ported to Windows Server 2003 (and presumably higher, perhaps), but aside from that, though it’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Anyway, the mention comes from a TAP Summit event that took place back in May of 2009 (like I said, a rather old mention). It seems the mention slipped through the cracks of the news media, but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Customer: Thanks to Microsoft for driver isolation. System restore on a print server would have been great because print servers put drivers everywhere and there’s no uninstall.
Microsoft: System restore dates back to Windows ME but has never been in server. However, it’s under consideration for Windows 8.
We all know what “it’s under consideration” means, so don’t get your hopes up too high as of yet. Last I’ve heard, Windows 8 is still in its planning phase with no builds having been compiled yet, but that status may have changed. Thanks to Rafael’s crafty haxory, we now know Microsoft is about to go external with its Windows 7 SP1 testing, so things appear to be moving along rather smoothly.
To any of you system administrators who run Windows on your servers, would you find the inclusion of System Restore to be a much-needed addition or are you indifferent about it? Your opinions are the ones that really count where this is concerned, so I’d be interested in the feedback any of you would be willing to share.
Source: platformvision.com
-Stephen
http://www.msftkitchen.com
So you’re assuming that the 765x and 766x builds are not in fact Win8 builds? That is what I had figured they were, given that Microsoft usually doesn’t do substantial increments of build numbers for service packs, but perhaps you know something else about these builds?