Great responses here, especially this one. Some of your points have given me a good bit to think about.

Where did you get the idea that I meant jQuery shouldn't be used, or that quality, responsive interfaces aren't ideal? I was lightheartedly chastising the sites that go overboard with nonsense, poorly-constructed Javascript that causes cross-browser compliance issues. Instances of this abound, search around and you'll find them. There is using a tool, then there is whizzing on the rug like a poorly trained Weimaraner. Choose wisely, web developers.

Supporting IE 9 is fairly easy, unless you're doing some wacky JQuery madness (stop doing that, nothing needs to be that fancy) or creating renders that expect really consistent text shadows (stop creating visuals that require text shadows to be readable). There are exceptions a colleague ran into whilst creating a rather extensive admin interface for a webapp that had many forms and parts on a single page, but he seemed to clear the hurdle without too much bleeding. IE 8 is notably less easy, especially if you're using CSS rounded corners (though you should be able to make a design that doesn't require them to at least look acceptable). There's also other bits of weirdness STFW for countless rants can reveal to you. IE 7 is a pain in the ass, and incompatibilities abound. It's nowhere near as bad as the hell that was supporting IE 6, but it's still costly and time-consuming. So, in summary, I agree with the core of your statements, but also can sympathize (but not agree with) the desire to drop IE for editing and control interfaces.

Makes me wish I had mod points, because you hit the nail on the head so hard here it split. I am so tired of the anti-OSI model attitude (very largely stemming from a complete lack of understanding about what the word "model" means). You don't make a scalable operation "compliant to the OSI model" by slapping labels on things and breaking up operations flows. The OSI model can model any network stack. If you're falsely making stupid changes to your infrastructure because you don't understand what a model does or what the OSI model represents, that's your fault. TLDR: Hate the players, not the game.

Yes, you are blameless. It is not a crime to unlock your door. It is a crime to enter private property without permission.

Calm yourself. Your request for further details is perfectly reasonable, but your outrage dilutes your stance. To answer your question: Nearly every facility of the management interface is either incomplete or woefully underperforming compared to its competitors. But here are a few key points: 1) Snapshot management is atrocious. Snapshotting an active VM takes hours (!!!) and often fails, and existing snapshots are entirely linear, such that if I roll back to a snapshot, take a snapshot and roll back to where I started, the newest snapshot appears as "newest" which is not technically correct (compare this to VSphere's much better implementation of this) 2) The backend simply cannot handle replacing a machine if there is any remnant of the previous VM's directory structure, and without actually changing the base configuration (which means moving every VM file), you cannot handpick the directory paths. I had to create a VM 3 times over because of this. 3) The console has virtually none of the host configuration options present in an ESX implementation. E.g,, storage adapters, datastore management, alarm triggers, etc. These are just a few reasons.

As someone who has spent a great amount of time trying to manage a Hyper-V infrastructure, I can say this was a completely appropriate move and criticism of the product. The management and maintenance of Hyper-V is abysmal, in my experience.

You can type what the application does as well, and it will show in the results. Try typing "word processor". Want to view your installed applications? Click the applications icon in Dash. You'll find it's categorized in that listing as well. I have found almost all of the objections to Dash and Unity as a whole result from many people not even bothering to try the interface out and accept it as something different. Instead, it's different and I can't do stuff the way I always did --> whine.