MS heads for HPC

[Kendrick-LUG]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>Remember the MS Exchange Cluster that RoadRunner KC tried to upgrade without a 
>rollback image?  They were down for WEEKS!
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>You know you'd have job security doing Windows clustering, but being between 
>an irate CEO and MS Tech Support's Hold Queue is not fun.
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<soapbox>  i still refuse to trust rr.com's email servers for THAT 
specific reason i lost 2 jobs due to that.   he has a extremely good 
answer.  1) xp gives home users info to Microsoft  how is that better 
for the user.  2 stability is better but is far from rock solid.  3 how 
many blaster's netskeys and who knows what else will it take to bogg 
down your email till its hard to be productive.  4) how many browser 
hacks are there for viruses/parasites for linux?  coolwebsearch and the 
like.   there are many others i could go down the list with.   how about 
the amd thing?   when the 350+ processors came out.   who here wanted to 
wiat 2 weeks for Microsoft to get around to getting you the patch 
because they screwed up.   yes that was the official turnaround for that 
patch till people illeagly released it after getting it.   you had the 2 
to 3 days for inital turnaround then another 3 to 4 for them to decide 
you actually need a patch then they MIGHT make it available to you.  how 
is that for customer service?  it is ther policy to worry about getting 
you to the next version and out of that now 250? $ for the latest full 
product they can.  not to mention the grands that it costs for the 
latest office pack.   I understand its a businesses business to keep the 
cash flow but at the cost of  its customers life blood.  letting them 
rott as somthing breaks so we can force them to a new version?  come on 
highway robery laws were built for things like this.  they keep just a 
toenail inside the line of the law usually.   business is business 
crooks are crooks it seems most of america has forgotten the difference 
between the two.  go stomp on your neighbors face so you can get that 
one rung higher.  its sad to see a nation fall like this.   there is so 
little done on principle in this nation its sad.

I addmit that 1 Microsoft did make huge inroads for the consumer to get 
personal computers where they are.  2 they have an impressive empire of 
software that has made allot of business possible by being available in 
such quantity that no other could match. 

dont fall for the wally world  special  though it is still built only to 
lats a little bit and to be discarded when next years new module comes 
in.  give me a lawn boy over a wall mart special any day.  a studibaker 
over a ford.   a source over a answer.  </soapbox>