I love Jeff Jones's Technet Security blog. He's got a lot of nerve and he asks a lot of questions that challenge conventional wisdom.

Now that he has a copy of the new interesting, but also disappointing in some ways, Longhorn Server Core (newly renamed Windows Server 2008 Server Core), he's wondering how much of a security difference it would make. Server Core is a special version of 2008 that will lack many large and important components, thus limiting it to a specific set of roles, but with a much smaller footprint.

Jones says he will look up the past few years of Windows Server 2003 vulnerabilities to see how many would have affected a theoretical 2003 Server Core product that had the same footprint.