If you rely on a third world sheeper for your core infrastructure then you are quite fucked! Penny wise pound foolish if something happens and they can't figure it out fast enough. I can see help desk going over there, but the loss of productivity from one user to the whole fucking enterprise is HUGE.

Things never are the same and consisent everyday. One example is when a client moved to Windows 7 a whole fucking group of people just got a hang on the welcome screen/can not estable trust relationship error for 3 days. It was annoying and our admin worked like mad to solve it. Turns out a bug from Windows Vista still in Windows 7 had an issue with a TCP ARP entry from an old OU where the group still had members of both

Name a brochure or a stack of proceedures for something like this? There is none. You need to be a pretty damn advanced know it all to be a compotent admin.

I think for advanced users METRO is not a big deal as I could theoretically get shit done on Windows 8. It just takes longer to do the same task but that is because I use the gui all day if I use it as a desktop and the start screen blocks everything and forces the human brain to switch context when I am in the train of thought unlike Windows 7's version of instant search. 8.1 at least matches its featureset ugh. But, we are advanced users and so are admins. All the stuff is there you just have to go page page page and click the hot corners to find a gui app. Most of Microsofts new server products really need powershell such as exchange. But that is just setup once up and running it is back to Windows 7 via MMC and powershell terminals at their desks.

I never see the guis of Windows server except when I walk in the room so it is different and if they need a gui tool they can still find it with Metro but it might take longer, but this is different than a desktop usage.

If your admins do not know how to use it still then FIRE THEM. It is not worth millions on hour if they are not certified and know how to do these things via automation in a real production environment. There are books, VMWare is fairly cheap, and there is virtualbox too if you are dirtcheap where you can learn this over the course of a year at home where you can setup virtual networks. That is how I learned Exchange 2007 and setting up OWA etc. Yes they need to be professionals cooks and not chefs using a recipe unless it is a small business server.

But that is just me. I would prefer to keep Windows 7 but would love Windows 2012 server as long as I do not have to sit physically in front of it.

I think you should reconsider your opinion on Windows 2012 server? FYI you can make it CLI only with core!

Windows 2012 is a big upgrade and is very VM ready compared to its past versions with dynamic memory allocation fucking finally, ability, DNS and AD servers are now VM ready, its hypervisor for HYPER V is now a type 1 bare metal that can go toe to toe with VSphere, it supports AD compression between other Windows 8 and 2012 servers. This means your crappy WAN with 100 users on the other side of the T1 can have traffic reduce by 50% (if you put a small Windows server 2012 on other side!)

Server has I/O improvements with SAN where if one volume is busy it will use another. Just because you like being conservative does not mean all change is for the sake of change like what many XP users still think. Windows 7 also was a pretty big upgrade from XP. I go crazy now without aero peak, aero snap, and instant search. Try it? Hit Windows key WOR and enter? Word pops out with no mouse at all. Same for keywords in documents too with instant search. See its more than eye candy from XP.

I personally do not give a c rap about Metro on the server even though its optional because sys admins rarely sit in front of it. Once installed they use the MMC console anyway at their desks.

I agree the purpose of Windows 8 is to sell more copies of Windows phone and for eye candy. But like Vista it is a new slate and I will reserve judgement for Windows 9. The server can actually save money as VSphere is extremely expensiveand this is the first version of Windows that can replace it.

If you'd said that while he was still at Google, I'd have agreed...

Which is my point.

The author says all AIO are junk including the imac. Not true but sadly close on the pc side. Since you own a shop I am surprised ypu remend such systems as they are a pain in the ass to repair. Shit Apple is gluing things like batteries to the damn case

Those are freaking fast for AIO and couldceasily trounce both the xboxone and ps4. Sure they are not 7990s in crossfire by any sense of the mean but those are niche and add $1100 to the cost of the system. For even crysis which is the most demanding game you can get by with a 670 gtx or a 7870 just ine. You could also argue a crossfire 7990s are low end too because my $3000 quadro or firepro is soo much better and can support 32 monitors etc.

The imac had decent specs for years.

The fact is most pcs sold have value oriented junk as only workstations and alienware bother with nice components. Most enthusiasts and gamers build their systens as a result.

I dont care if its opensource or not. Too many people use it. Slashdot had a story last year about it becoming the next IE 6 of html 5. Somethings are being put in to make a better html 5 score on html5test.com, but are not w3c. An example is touch events in css 3. W3c has a different idea. Its a la IE 5.5/6 boxmodel shenagan all over again which is why corporate apps cant leave IE 6. MS decided to make IE cutting edge (it was in 1999) and made astandard that w3c was workingon. Oops w3c decided to make the padding and the rounding of pixels different and from there IE had its version and Firefox had theirs and now 13 years later IE 6 is still around to run those apps.

In 2020 we will have old versions of android and chrome to render these ancient 2012 CMS systems because one standard was chosen because webkit owned 90% of the mobile market back then and w3c did things differently.

That to me is much more of a threat than IE returning from the deathknell and then ms returning to have its own standards

Take a look at Apple when Steve was there? Take a look at Applexwhen he was not? Any questions?

It maybe hip to hate MS on slashdot but man an Apple world would be much scarier when MS was the ruler. I like Windows 7 and Offfice 2010 and find later IE releases now tollerable. MS no longer is the monoplist and is moving towards standards no. Very different when XP came along with just wmv wma IE 6 with its own javascript and MS css etc. Today Office is moving towards xml and IE with HTML 5. True the ms xml is more proprietary than opendoc and their html 5 uses different touch events but its not the same as the old days.

Funny you state that with a link on Apple :-)

The same was said about IBM and that we should all standardize on Windoze because of the scary OS/2 would monopolize the pc market! Look where that got us?

In 2013 I see Apple still having a monopoly in music and google taking over the web with webkit.

I see the hatred to MS playing a blindeye from the current similiar to anti IBM of the 1980s and 1990s. I want to see Windows phone challengr Apple and Google. I want webkits monopoly on the mobile internet shattered by IE 10/11 mobile. I would like to see Firefox mobile too.

I also think Windows 7 and Office 2010 as well as IE9/10 are HUGE improvements over older versions. But hey are all went downhill fast with Office 2013 and windows 8.

He also came out with Windows 7, Office 2010, IE 9/10, and sharepoint 2010 which are the best versions to date and huge improvements over earlier versions under Balmer!

In the last year we saw Office 2013, Windows 8, Vs2012, which are big falls from their heights! Just frustrating as my anti ms views have softened until last year. Balmer did let great improvements.

I'm not sure why you'd think this is the case in the UK - perhaps you've only tried driving around central London. A few factors affect the relatively low rate of road fatalities in the UK:

The first is the relative difficulty of getting a driving license. You must pass a theory test, which is multiple choice. It's not that difficult, but you can't pass it without having at least read the highway code, even if you can't remember quite all of it. Then you must pass a hazard awareness test, which shows you videos recorded from cars and checks that you are aware of things that may potentially be dangerous and so need your attention. Finally, you need to pass a practical test, which takes 30-60 minutes and involves driving on various kinds of road, where one major fault will result in failure. It's not unusual for people to require 2-3 attempts to pass, with lessons in between

Perhaps more important, however, is that safety statistics are the primary input into the road signal design system. Speed limits are set and traffic lights are installed in response to accident statistics, not (usually) to raise revenue. Police speed traps are also placed according to these rules. The USA has no equivalent system.

Shit even word doesnt support doc files fully!
Different versions of Windows running the same version of office put different margins on my resume. Libreoffice is a seperate can of worms and I run virtual machines to make sure it looks the same. I feel sorry for the document foundation to work with such a crappy product standard but its the glue that locks people in.

What we need is short of a revolution like a cross between the opendoc format and pixel accurcy of pdf with an add on for Office. After that then I wouldnt have to pay $250 for Office and macosx and Windows