Apologies in advance, the weekend is nearly here and my brain is shutting down.
Every 2 to 3 years we have the opportunity to have a big ol’ belly laugh at Microsoft as they come up with new names for old things. You can’t have Software-as-a-Service; it’s got to be Software+Services (yeah they’ll give you an explanation why but come on!). The world had heard of VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) and then MS comes out with VECD (Vista EntersomethingortotherI’mfalling asleeptypingthis). Strangely, there’s a VDI Connection Broker in Windows Server 2008 R2. I wonder if they’ll call it VECDCB or would that be W7ECDCB? Then there’s Windows NT Workstation -> Windows 2000 Professional – Windows XP (the eXPerience) all the way down to Windows Vista. Vista? Yeap, lots of people claimed to have a new outlook on Windows after that one. Bad joke … I know. I like Vista for the most part but it was too much change for most businesses and end users with too little benefit. Now they’ve sort of reversed course and we have Windows 7. That’ll be followed by something like Windows Visão 🙂
There’s one well known speaker who has joked about a department of people living under a stairs or in a basement in Redmond whose only job is to come up with new names. Once we’ve gotten used to a name *BANG* it’s changed.
I’ve been working a lot with a Windows Server 2008 cluster over the last 4 or 5 months. To ben honest, it was so easy that I could set it up and manage it after seeing a few demos. I didn’t need to read any documentation. I was perusing the web and then I noticed something. The quorum disk is no longer referred to as a "quorum" by MS any more. Huh!? When you use the Windows Failover Cluster (there we go again!) MMC you will manage your witness disk by accessing "Configure Cluster Quorum Settings".
We’ve heard over the last 24 hours that MS are letting some people go, some of which are in Ireland. I hope it’s none of the good folks I’ve worked with over the last few years. I really hope MS aims at the department for renaming things and takes aim at them.