Re:Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to change geek opinion?
by antod on Friday March 20, 2015 @06:32PM
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They have improved a lot recently but some things I'd really like to see...
* Ship native SSH (inc scp/sftp) and rsync clients and servers with Windows to make interoperability easier in heterogeneous environments. eg make SSH a first class transport option for Powershell remoting.
* Simplify the server licensing complexity, and then stop changing it all the time.
* Stop the secure boot shenanigans.
* Stop treating most HA, security or robustness features in SQL Server as "value adds" that are only in the really expensive editions.
* Contribute more engineering resources to improve open source interoperability projects and various 'DevOps' tools eg WinRM libraries, Configuration Management tools, Packer, Vagrant etc.
* Ship native SSH (inc scp/sftp) and rsync clients and servers with Windows to make interoperability easier in heterogeneous environments. eg make SSH a first class transport option for Powershell remoting.
* Simplify the server licensing complexity, and then stop changing it all the time.
* Stop the secure boot shenanigans.
* Stop treating most HA, security or robustness features in SQL Server as "value adds" that are only in the really expensive editions.
* Contribute more engineering resources to improve open source interoperability projects and various 'DevOps' tools eg WinRM libraries, Configuration Management tools, Packer, Vagrant etc.