Give it some time and you don't know how you lived without it. Incidentally I heard the next incarnation of windows server will have by default *no telnet (yay)* *Will run sshd (yay)* and will include TUI tools for remote administration (yay).
Telnet is still incredibly useful as a troubleshooting tool, but I'm not surprised that MS is just dumping it completely.
It's good to hear that MS will finally be joining the rest of the world in supporting ssh. I'm sometimes astounded at how long it takes microsoft to make sensible moves like that. I haven't used telnet for anything other than a network connectivity troubleshooting tool for years. Anyone still running telnet servers except in really specialized circumstances should have been shot years ago.