Technology for Mortals

I keep finding more and more places in Windows Server 2008 where I get the distinct impression that someone desparately needs to do s/Vista/Windows Server 2008/ on it (regex for “replace ‘Vista’ with ‘Windows Server 2008′”). Everywhere I look, some part of the system is referring to itself as “Vista”. These are not items being driven by the Windows version number, this is documentation and so on. It’s just plain sloppy, and shame on Microsoft for releasing it in this condition.

J.Ja

I installed Windows Server 2008 Standard in a VMWare Server VM today. Before I installed the VMWare tools, it did not recognize the NIC. Well, that obnoxious “why your PC doesn’t work right” wizrd came up a bit later… and as you can see in the screenshot, it seems to think that I am using Windows Vista! Obviously, someone needs to go through the database and change the problem summaries; the full description had a more generic, “your version of Windows…” message.

J.Ja