[proxy_user]

Let me guess - they threw out all the obscure features no one ever uses?

[dayglored]

No, they reduced a lot of the services and features that admins like me use all the time -- ON THE LAN SERVERS. Remote Desktop and the like... But you don't need or want those on a CLOUD server.

They really did cut this down to the bone. But the fact that the resulting Nano server runs fast and small, has a smaller attack surface and fewer vulnerabilities, and can be deployed in a less expensive VM shell in the cloud, all makes for a really exciting prospect for those of us moving servers into the cloud.