Systems Administrator Reacts to Windows 8


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I always find it funny how people who work in IT are the most reactive people to change anywhere on the planet. It's not really a myth because my brother is EXACTLY the same. He still uses XP for Christ's sake and he's a Software Support Engineer.

You work in an industry that is changing day to day, week to week, month to month and year to year.

How can you work in this industry when your first reaction to anything that changes is to cry or throw a fit?

So if your brother works for a company it is somehow HIS fault that are still using XP? seems to me MS can't convince businesses to adopt their "latest and greatest" OS'es anymore

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Because UAC and system restore are useless and a power drain in large cluster room environments and system admins (like this guy) have no use at all for them? It's easy to think you know everything while sitting at your one PC in your bedroom. But you don't. Many services and features of Windows 8 are all but useless to system admins. It''s the first OS that MS have ever built that ignores the needs of business users, in preference to home users. In this sense it's already a huge mistake.

The Metro UI is also completely useless and irrelevant to many large cluster business environments. Touch interfaces were never intended for use in productivity environments. Yet the default Windows 8 install requires some level of interaction with it and does not allow it to be disabled. Not by admins, not by anyone.

Admins can't buy into this strange Frankenstein OS, that doesn't know if it's a tablet OS, or a desktop OS and ends up doing neither very well.

Sorry for digging up an old thread. I stumbled on it via Google when looking to read other admins views of Windows 8.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, where do you work? I really want to take your job.

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Windows 8 is built for tablets, but also can run on desktops/laptops.

Windows 7 is built for desktop/laptops, but also can run on tablets.

I use a laptop and will be content with Windows 7, what appears to be the last great Windows desktop/laptop OS, until at least 2020. :)

If you like Windows 8, more power to you.

And so you know, I LOVE trying new things and am not averse to change. But Windows 8 is just not my cup of tea.

Btw, cute video.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, where do you work? I really want to take your job.

So what smart guy? You leave a bunch of useless services running do you? You are happy to cost your bosses money? These services (and various other unnecessary features) require CPU cycles, hence electricity, hence large piles of cold hard cash. Every admin I have ever known prefers a barebones minimalist system/desktop environment because a) it's the most efficient/productive and b) it's simpler and more cost effective to run and maintain. Bells and whistles are for the birds, and for easy to impress home users. PC sales are already down by 11% this quarter, the largest single dip since PC sales records began. This is already significant, but watch that dip turn into a nosedive in 2 or 3 years when many admins might normally consider what they should purchase through their next buying cycle.

If you think MS are headed in this one direction and won't change and won't turn back, lets wait and see iif the numbers drive that decision or not.

This is a very old topic. Please kill this thread ...

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