I can see the limitations now.
It's not like they haven't released phone OSes that were incompatible with each other. It's not like they haven't released two tablet OSes...one of which couldn't run any x86 software...they've clearly done none of this while facing stiff competition.
Assuming Mist was referring to "advanced features" in a sarcastic way and cuts out (disables) all of the bloat services running by default. I do the same.
Right, because they've never introduced a line of Windows that had Starter, Basic, Premium, Professional, and Ultimate (and Business, and Enterprise) in it, right?
This is Microsoft we are talking about right? They are slowly doing it with Office and Windows is next. They've been wanting a sub model for the OS for years now.
I don't think we'll ever see more than 3 'main' skus again, with a few other SKUs for the oddball corporate licensing models. Microsoft is bad but they do learn from their mistakes eventually.
Exchange hosted local we have had a total of a handful of hours down in the past 3 years (non-maintenance windows etc.) - 3 month 360 beta and we had 1.5 (I think 26hr) work day down time- and yes it fit well within the SLA from Microsoft... so yeah we are staying with on site hosting even counter to the fact MS is basically giving 360 away now to later om-nom the yearly fees. Companies are being about as dumb as American people are in giving away their control, just put it in the cloud! DBAS? sure, put all your info into something that has to go outside your intranet, HR systems in the cloud?! WHY YES PLEASE! what could happen! its so much better (read cheaper)
Same experience here. We have a 3 node Exchange 2010 DAG and have had literally 25 minutes of total unplanned downtime in the last four years. The level of granular control you get from on-premise simply can't be met by an in the cloud offering. Also, something that you'd literally implement/fix on your own in under a minute now requires the dreaded support call to get done. Then, if you want your data out of the cloud, or want it moved to another cloud vendor, good fucking luck. Once they realize you're not a potential revenue stream anymore the migration of your 10TB of data is now in the hands of some mouth breather in India. And don't even get me started on "security"-- we have a regulatory requirement to archive our email with a 3rd party vendor, and chose a "top tier" provider to do so, and they just so happened to have an account with a company that has the same name as us, and all it took was an email request for an additional admin account for them to accidentally give me access to the mail archives of this other company. Not once, but twice lol. Your "cloud security" is basically as good as the $10/hour retard that answers their helpdesk. Except for some "niche" type cloud apps like cloud based 2-factor providers (basically services that don't hold your data, but perform a function) the Cloud is just corporate IT provider propoganda
Sorry, lost me after this. All I do all day at work is support Microsoft products in an enterprise, and I wouldn't trust them in the cloud to save my life. It has nothing to do with the stability of their products; rather, the fact that I'm not in charge of (or even in the know about) how their security platform has been implemented and is monitored. It's easy to say that they surely have a large focus on security in the cloud, but so did Sony, right? Wait, no. So does Google, right? No, because gmail has been torn a new one many times, mostly because People are Stupid and use their dog's name as a password.
^ Exactly this
Oh really? We've had issues with going from 7 to 8, but I think that had more to do with IT staff installing newer versions of java manually rather than letting us update it via gp. What kind of issues have you run into? At least the newer versions of java actually started removing the older versions. I think that started in version 7 or at the end of 6 finally...so dumb.
