iis 7 surprises

So I’ve started looking at IIS 7 today and low and behold they’ve finally done away with the damned metabase and have replaced it with some xml configuration files. It’ll be nice to actually be able to diff webserver configs. At some point I hope to play around with some of the newer alternative http servers on the scene, like nginix. At this moment though, I’m checking out what’s changing in the windows world. Also whilst poking around Vista I’ve also noticed that they made the firewall not suck. Kudos, Vista does indeed look like a nice step forward though I can understand why people’s responses seem to be mixed. Change is indeed rough. I don’t think it helps that all of the previous releases worked very hard to provide a familiar operating environment. At some point it pays to be more like the linux kernel developers, natural api evolution seems to lead to cleaner stuff.