WTF is up with Microsoft and its gazillion different versions of Windows?

[George P Burdell]

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:roll: :|

 

[buck]

I thought windows 95 was fine.

 

[ElFenix]

it's called price discrimination. same thing as airlines and a gazillion different fares for the same flight.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Hasn't it always been that way? Standard, Enterprise, IA-64 & Datacenter? I don't know what Hyper-V is though.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Hasn't it always been that way? Standard, Enterprise, IA-64 & Datacenter? I don't know what Hyper-V is though.

Their virtualization

 

[kranky]

To answer your question, you'll need Windows Server 2008 Version Chooser Version.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Hasn't it always been that way? Standard, Enterprise, IA-64 & Datacenter? I don't know what Hyper-V is though.

Their [late-to-the-party] virtualization

fixed

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: buck
I thought windows 95 was fine.

I'm sticking with Windows 3.1 till they get the bugs worked out of '95.

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: techs

Originally posted by: buck
I thought windows 95 was fine.

I'm sticking with Windows 3.1 till they get the bugs worked out of '95.

:thumbsup:

 

[tfinch2]

I may be a bit biased, but why would anyone go with a product like Hyper-V when ESX has been around and is a proven performer.

You also have to think about how much support Hyper-V is going to have for operating systems other than Windows. I'm not saying Windows in a production environment is bad, but Microsoft can't ignore other operating systems anymore with a product like this.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I may be a bit biased, but why would anyone go with a product like Hyper-V when ESX has been around and is a proven performer.

You also have to think about how much support Hyper-V is going to have for operating systems other than Windows. I'm not saying Windows in a production environment is bad, but Microsoft can't ignore other operating systems anymore with a product like this.

basically....as someone put it before, with MS you will get the equivalent of v 1.0 whereas with Xen, Vmware, Virtual Iron, etc, you get a product that has run the compatibility gauntlet. Regardless of how much testing MS does, people won't care until it has been out in the field and is tried and true