Re:Windows Server 2016: End of One Era, Start of Another
by sofaofthedamned on Thursday September 29, 2016 @02:13PM
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Exactly.
If Microsoft had let me install from the autounattend.xml (or whatever it's called) without an Enterprise agreement, i'd have explored it further. But no, for Windows 10 they made it not work at all.
If WSUS was as easy as using createrepo to mirror a Ubuntu or RHEL repo without breaking after an update to support Windows 10, i'd be all ears.
But no, Microsoft continue to break the developer/ops experience. Having my first job in 15 years trying to wrangle Windows infrastructure into place as part of a wider Linux install, i've doubled my resolve to never touch the stuff again.
Interestingly I finished at my last contract on Friday - 2 of the 3 contracts i've been called about since are related to moving away from the Microsoft stack.
Nadella seems to be making great moves that are good for the ecosystem. Yet a decade and a half of Ballmer is hard to forget as proof of how Microsoft trends when it doesn't have competition. (And I'm not faulting most of the people involved; I'm sure any other company would have done the same thing in Microsoft's position)