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Just ditch the MS stuff and come to the *nix/bsd side, pasture is a lot greener.
There is no *NIX/BSD side to speak of. I mean, sure, as a server Linux is exceptional. But as a client it is not even competitive in the business environment. It isn't cost effective, time effective, or even well supported.
I know a few old time Windows IT people, when they mention NT it's usually in the same sentence as a cuss word.
For a long time, NT stood for "Not Tested". Remember that Windows NT used to crash after 49.71 days when the uptime counter overflowed. Most people never noticed this because the server would crash for other reasons long before that.
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There is no *NIX/BSD side to speak of. I mean, sure, as a server Linux is exceptional. But as a client it is not even competitive in the business environment. It isn't cost effective, time effective, or even well supported.
What do you think OSX is based on?
I deviated from development for Microsoft platform as it became overbloated with useless and then quietly abandoned with layers and layers of miscellaneous technologies.
Microsoft superiority is gradually rusting away by more creative and intelligent tools and solutions from other vendors. Until Ballmer is there - I do not think we can see any major improvements or anything even close to revolutionary new directions.
I wish Bill Gates would take a few months break from developing advanced toilets for Africa and clean up his old beautiful house, starting from the attic.
Disable "Metro" = true, Enable Start Button = true
Done! Now you have Windows 8 NT
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There is no *NIX/BSD side to speak of. I mean, sure, as a server Linux is exceptional. But as a client it is not even competitive in the business environment. It isn't cost effective, time effective, or even well supported.
I hope to see a day when the perception of modern Linux environments will change. Ubuntu for example is more than capable of being used in a business environment.
Ubuntu is easily the furthest any Linux vendor has come at producing a workable client, but there is still a long way to go.
Right now managing Ubuntu centrally is painful - I mean having it hook into Kerberos is easy enough but that only gives you control over users and remote files, you still have little control or visibility over the client OS its self.
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For a long time, NT stood for "Not Tested". Remember that Windows NT used to crash after 49.71 days when the uptime counter overflowed. Most people never noticed this because the server would crash for other reasons long before that.
It was windows "No Thanks" in my circles. But win 2000 was a gem - I liked it much more than XP back in the day.