Hyper-V isn’t the only Windows Server 2008 virtualization solution that’s
lagging
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| But it’s not just Microsoft’s own Hyper-V that isn’t quite ready for
| prime-time. Several other virtualization products from Microsoft’s
| competitors and partners aren’t 100-percent enterprise-ready, either, at this
| point.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1225
The "Ow!" starts again.
Related:
Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features
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| The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor
| technology to try to stick to its schedule of releasing the
| technology within 180 days of completing its Windows Server
| "Longhorn" operating system, due to be finalized before the
| end of the year.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6182852.html
More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing
,----[ Quote ]
| "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista
| operating system is set to be rewritten..."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=30516
,----[ Quote ]
| "In the long years since XP was launched, Apple have come out with five
| major upgrades to OS X, upgrades which (dare I say it?) install with about
| as much effort as it takes to brush your teeth in the morning. No nightmare
| calls to tech-support, no sudden hardware incompatibilities, no hassle. Why
| hasn't Microsoft kept up? Unmaintainable"
|
| "Right now, Microsoft has nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. After all
| the hype surrounding Vista, the Emperor has finally been revealed in all
| his naked glory. Some folks have been predicting the demise of Microsoft. I
| wouldn't go that far, but I am wondering how we?re ever going to take
| Microsoft seriously again?"
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/29/vista_end_dream/
A history of Microsoft Windows - the inside story exposed
,----[ Quote ]
| 2004: (...)
| THE MANAGEMENT: "What do you mean it still doesn't work? Try
| harder!"
|
| 2005: (...)
| "MAKE IT WORK! FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAKE IT WORK! Well, throw it away
| and use the server version then, that seems all right. Look, they
| won't know the difference, drop the database stuff, nobody remembers
| what we said in 1995 now! That was ten years ago! "Apple has what?
| 3D acceleration? So, we have DirectX. What, in the desktop? Really?
| What, even Stallman's beardie-weirdies have it? Oh hell. Right, you
| lot, make it look like this!"
|
| 2006: Windows Vista
| THE MANAGEMENT: "Look, if we trickle it out to those mugs, I mean,
| valued customers who've already paid, we can say we released it this
| year and it'll buy us some more time..."
|
| 2007: No, really Windows Vista, honest
| MARKETING DEPT: "Never mind the features, look at it! Isn't it shiny?
| Yes! Pretty!"
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37962
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
|
| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
Developers
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| "With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented
| architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really
| ugly for the Windows division," my friend claimed, and the BV's
| core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde
| Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
|
| [...]
|
| He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
| Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take
| awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to
| come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball."
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http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt
There’s no Windows Server 2008 SP1 in the works. Here’s why
,----[ Quote ]
| Chalk that abnormality up to Microsoft’s ongoing attempt to more closely
| synchronize its Windows client and Windows server releases. Because Windows
| client and server are built from the same core and thus get patched with many
| of the same updates and fixes, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are
| now "on par."
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1193
Hyper-V in Server 2008 RTM doesn't like non-US locales
,----[ Quote ]
| Annoying. Yes, it is mentioned in the release notes - but what if Hyper-V
| beta had required you to set a non-US locale at install time? Do you think
| Microsoft would have flagged this problem more prominently?
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/11/hyper_v_localization/
Microsoft web developers branded pants
,----[ Quote ]
| The strokers of beards and Volish nay-sayers have been claiming that reason
| is Windows Server 2008. They claim this on the very safe assumption that
| since Microsoft installed it, vole.com has been running like a condemned man
| with his legs cut off on his way to his own execution.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/11/microsoft-web-developers-pants
This eWeek [on Servers]
,----[ Quote ]
| I asked Jason about Windows Server's newfound security: "The first time
| I heard about this new feature," he said, "I thought it was clearly a
| response to Linux.
|
| Windows Server 2008 isn't quite there yet, according to Jason's tests.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2134429,00.asp
What will run on Windows Server 2008 — and when
,----[ Quote ]
| Are we in for a Windows-Vista-like experience, where even some of Microsoft’s
| own applications didn’t work with its new operating system for weeks, if not
| months?
|
| [...]
|
| A number of Microsoft server apps that won’t support Windows Server 2008
| until the latter half of 2008, when service packs providing Server 2008
| compatibility are released.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1153
Windows server URL sends you to Apple
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| TYPE IN windowsserver2008.com into your browser and after it thinks a bit, it
| takes you straight to the Apple site.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/31/windows-server-url-sends-apple
Will Windows Home Server be Microsoft’s next flop?
,----[ Quote ]
| If you buy-off on the theory that the world seems to be heading in the
| opposite direction that Microsoft wants to lead it, then you can’t help but
| wonder what the long term prospects for an offering like Windows Home Server
| are. Not good, if you ask me.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=791
Windows Home Server fan club beats me up for asking if WHS is Microsoft’s next
flop
,----[ Quote ]
| Literally within minutes of each other (strangely coincidental), I received
| two e-mails — one from a colleague and the other from someone who concealed
| their identity — that basically told me I was out of line for questioning the
| chances that Microsoft’s Windows Home Server will succeed.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=851
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