by Roger Pence
In my previous post about Windows 7, I mentioned that (excepting its virtual machine capabilities), Windows 7 doesn’t have a single killer app. I forgot about something very important to Web developers: Windows 7 includes IIS 7.
II7 is the Web server that ships with Windows Server 2008. If you are using Windows Server 2008, and if you an ASP.NET Web developer, then II7 is surely a killer app for you. Microsoft just released version 1.0 of its Web Deployment Tool and while its still early in my WDT experience, I think it has lots of potential. Windows 7 provides developers the ability to replicate an enterprise server environment and test many of development and deployment scenarios.
If you’re a Web developer, be sure to add IIS 7 to the reasons you need Windows 7!
Err, Windows Vista had IIS7 too... it didn't help, so guess not a killer app (other than for developers)
Posted by: John | January 02, 2010 at 08:30 PM