That's exactly what they hope you are thinking, not "hey this OS is great!" but "well at least it's not as crappy as the last one" It's amazing that Bill Gates is the richest man in the world when his company has produced mostly crap for 20 years
Windows 95 Bad Windows 98 Good Windows ME Bad Windows XP Good Windows Vista Bad Windows 7 Good Windows 8 Bad Windows 10 Good???
Microsoft probably has two teams working the operating system. That would explain the spaghetti code since both teams would be attached to different parts of the OS over time.
What really sucks is Server 2016 is coming out early next year. If you're an aspiring Windows Server admin, which do you study for? 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016? There are tons of companies still on 2008 R2, some even on 2003. I would hate to be a MS server admin. The recent MS craze has admins going away from the GUI and into the shell, okay. Linux and especially Cisco have great development paths, MS doesn't. Companies just aren't adopting to the new technology at the rate MS is releasing these versions.
Corporate America doesn't want new versions of the OS every few years. That just totally sucks for them because they're generally late adapters and they're always having to look at 3 versions of the OS, the thing that works, the thing they were thinking about maybe going too finally despite not enough ROI from the thing that works and then the pie in the sky that is about to come out that they know isn't going to work right for the first 6 months to a year. Security is a terrible argument for Microsoft to make because that means their holes are forcing yet another upgrade on a company that really wants to get 5-7 years out of a major rollout before they have to even consider moving on. Really they'd like 10 years. Then you have the customer problem, which basically boils down to if you're going to inconvenience your customers with a major OS rollout you almost have to do a new hardware rollout to sell it. That's big bucks on the capital budget and you're not going to get full credit no matter what you do because there will be minor bugs and stuff that influence the customer's perception in the end. I was on this train for more than a decade and a half with Microsoft and it is just a major pain in the ass to have to deal with. Moving to net boxes always comes up and then something shoots it down between the customers and the in-house developers. Everybody should just move to net boxes and then tell Microsoft to cut the OS by about 90% for the corporate market. The tail has been wagging the dog for way too long at this point.
8r2 and 12r2 because that's what in place for the most part. I think the post below your mentioned that its going to take a while before 16 really gets its share up in the enterprise market.
A sign of things to come https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/microsoft-rushes-emergency-security-fix-221506921.html
Microsoft has pushed out two updates to Windows 10; causing crashes for some. Edit: Should of read before posting. This is bullshit news.
Just wait a couple of weeks before installing if you want to upgrade. Two weeks is long enough for the bad news to spread if it's there.
Going on a road trip tomorrow so that'll help me avoid the early upgrade train. Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk
