Microsoft’s new Windows Server 8 comes with plentiful features and adequacies, which will mark one of the biggest change to Windows Server OS since Windows Server 2000. The product which is expected to be released in October this year had already launched its pre beta developer’s version. Here are some interesting features of Windows Server 8, which according to InfoWorld, will help you decide whether to love it or hate it.

Love the new file system, ReFS, a makeover to NTFS
Resilient File System (REFS) inherits some features from NTFS. It is designed to be resilient from breakdowns that happen to complex hardware storage systems and is also RAID compatible.

Hate: Windows Server 8 is not a cloud object
Microsoft prefers PaaS model, where the platform is used as least sophisticated level in the cloud. With this Microsoft will have strict controls on all dimensions including OS payload and maximal licensing costs and it also prevents commoditizing server licenses.

Love the new Hyper-V switch
The server has a Hyper- V hypervisor has a virtual switch which will enable predictable multitenancy ideals without the use of other complex visualization software. The switch has extended control over network traffic.

Hate: Windows Server 8 is not ported to ARM
Several manufacturers including HP have projects on making and supporting interesting ARM designs and there are many low-power high-performance processors made from ARM. But Microsoft still has no ARM portability to servers except the fact that it has two code family trees, one for x86/x64 and another for ARM.

Love the increased file and folder controls
New server allows a greater control over files and folders with increased metadata characteristics. Accessibility tags can be made manual or automatic and is classified by the data type content. It can also be additionally audited.

Hate: Windows 8 feature list is fixated on VMware
The customers are still looking out for an innovation from Microsoft that might even work with VMware. But Microsoft is using VMware as a metric to introduce comparisons for Windows Server 8 features.

Love the new GUI
Windows Server 8 comes with Server Core, a minimalistic User Interface. All administrative details can be performed via staggering number of Windows Powershell Commandlets. It is also effortless in scripting due to the Powershell syntactical consistency.

Hate: ReFS is not bootable
Microsoft is not offering the booting option for its wonderful file system, instead it will be available as a storage space- only option with built in error recovery techniques. It may roll out the bootable version in the future.