The Future of Windows Server

 

FIRST THE BAD NEWS.... DOMAIN CONTROLLERS STILL SUCK 20 YEARS LATER

Between ourselves we have been debating the future of Windows Server which keeps growing, and requiring larger and larger number of resources... rather than simply performing better on new hardware to a level of acceptability. The general problem is that you need Domain Controllers to authenticate users and applications, and they used to consume a 486 processor at 85-90%, but we are 20 years later they are still cratering quad core servers running at 2.6Ghz and higher....we dont understand but we are starting to think that its intentional to support their Hardware manufacturer's who sell 90% of their product. But buy new hardware and install Windows 7 and you cant believe how good it is... whats the trade off you tell me?

Or Maybe we just punt... and run Windows Domain Controllers on Linux which STILL RUN UNDER 1G OF MEMORY, and even run on Rasberry Pi's? 

OUR ANSWER: Nadella... you need to replace Bill's Domain controllers once and for all, and start over... as its TERRIBLE 20 years later.

NOW THE GOOD NEWS....WINDOWS CAN HANDLE 100'S OF CORES EFFORTLESSLY

The first isnt a hardware issue, its simply poorly written code which scares mere mortals as it runs more than 2B Desktop computers around the world. But here's the good news...Windows now supports Datacenter Edition Platforms which support multi-socket, multi-core machines which we believe will easily allow them to scale to mainframe size, and even on 1RU Oracle platforms running 128 cores, are ALREADY BIGGER THAN MIDRANGE MACHINES IN 2000.

What does this mean, well if Microsoft changes the kernel a bit, they might be able to offload tasks to high order CPU's that do nothing but process security tasks inside of a Hypervisor, or a Domain Kubernetes cluster which we think they should be able to do easily not 10 years from now, but right away with some effort. So thats what we want. We want server functions to run on seperate CPU's on the same bus, and when we get to that architecture, then we essentially have about the same architecture as a modern phone switch (Sonus, Cisco, Juniper, etc) all of which have route processors which are seperate from the CPU.... this means there are likely going to be new collisions in Techdom in the next 10 years.

OUR PREDICTIONS FOR 2025 SERVER & MICROSOFT IN GENERAL

1) Microsoft will license server tasks on Linux servers which run in Containers on HyperV.

2) Windows DotNet8.0 will include capability to offload specific server processes to a specific cores, or core groups.

3) Microsoft will create an application registry which can be restored from the cloud.

4) Microsoft will give owners of hardware platforms the ability to rebuild PnP tasks in real-time to fix server and workstation platforms as an Advanced Boot Option.

5) Microsoft will create a version of SQL Server Management Studio which runs natively on Linux.

6) Microsoft will join Opensource Linux Domain teams, and add value added software to power the Universe.... and compete with Microfocus who has given up their core business.