Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by exitcode00 on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:13PM
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Are we talking about the same windows 10 that blows-up every November to add nonsuch features?
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by Scramblejams on Friday February 01, 2019 @04:27PM
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The same! Windows 10 seemed like it started out stable enough, but it’s been getting flakier by the year for me. I’m now keeping a log of things that go wrong with it, just for fun. Every once in a while I look at the list and ask myself, how on earth did they screw up start menu search?![0]
[0] https://m.windowscentral.com/how-fix-taskbar-search-not-work... Had to have a work PC reimaged to fix this. True story.
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by int_19h on Friday February 01, 2019 @04:23PM
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Enterprises that are on Win10 are likely to use LTSB anyway, rendering this moot.
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by exitcode00 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:33AM
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There are ways for us "end-users" to get a hold of LTSC. First download the demo from microsoft then go to ebay to buy a key from some shady guy for 14$. Seems to work for me :P
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by grumpydba on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:36AM
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Windows operating systems are just a gigantic bloated and underperforming mess.
Server 2019 is no exception.
At the company I work for IT ops deliver VMs as a service. The windows ones have huge disk footprint and take at least 3 times as long to deliver. Moreover dsc is not featureful enough compared with ansible. So it's also a pain to script/automate for. The failure rate is higher. And let's not forget the need to put antivirus on them.
Lots and lots of reasons to escape from that platform, I could go on for a while.
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by pjmlp on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:13AM
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Unless you are deploying Solaris into production, how are those kernels handling asynchronous loads.
Still plain old select(), poll() and AIO?
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by grumpydba on Saturday February 02, 2019 @07:43AM
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Yes, and they are plenty fast. The API could be more elegant, but it works fine. Mysql for example uses io_submit. So do oracle, sybase.
It's just a matter of developer comfort. They work around it for us.
Deployment-wise, linux runs circles around windows.
Operating systems? I personally love Windows 10 (now its more mature), and Windows Server 2019 is embracing containers.
On cloud, AWS is very entrenched, but Microsoft can capture a lot of the enterprise market. I've worked extensively with Azure, and I think it's a fantastic product. TBH, I'm not sure there is a "best of breed" cloud provider - they each have their strengths and weaknesses, and there is plenty of room in the market for all the big players as well as smaller, specialised ones.