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does not mean that you can no long install Windows Server with a GUI. My thinking on this is that Microsoft is trying to get the Linux and Netware administrators to embrace them by offering a command line only OS. "See we have that too" mentality. Also when you think about virtualization, the Host OS does need to be small and streamlined. A GUI running on the Virtual Host would be a complete waste of resources that could otherwise be provisioned for use by the virtual machines and that is not to mention the monthly patches that you would have to put on the Host that would almost always require a reboot. Server Core to me is really geared towards being the Virtual Host and geared to give VMware a run for its money if they can get the High Availability capabilities that VMware currently has operational.