What is the benefit of developing the application as a windows service?

Question

I am going to develop an application which will process online data (comming through socket) and it does not need any user interaction.

I am thinking of a simple con

Answer 1

On the top of my head:

• You can control the user (and the rights associated with this user account) which starts the process
• an Automatically started process means the desktop need to be on, not user logged, for the service to run
• a policy on failure can be defined (try to restart n times run a specific program if fails)
• a dependency can be defined (if you depend on other sevices)
• you can wrap your scrip in an invisible windows
• you can easily start/stop/restart the script (net start )