Thanks. Understand what you meant. I actually love the cloud given all the years of infrastructure support I’ve had to do: backups run, restores failed, servers ruined, overheat, worry about power, hardware go belly up 2 days after warranty, software installs causing already installed software to fail, etc., etc.
Not having to worry about all that and make it Microsoft’s (or Amazon’s or Google’s) fault is a blessing! This is mainly a corporate issue.
As you say, at home; not so much... Unless you are a home user like either one of us—and then you have servers and VMs and all kinds of configurations to deal with at home as well as the office!
today I brought up my Windows Technical Preview vm on Azure... It expires on 15 April! Seems like MSFT hasn’t got the 10000 build in Azure yet....
It took me longer than I care to admit to understand what you meant by 10000. It’s going to take some time to get used to seeing that. I’m so used to typing 9600 or 6.3.
I couldn’t agree more that cloud infrastructure is the best bet for corporations. It’s putting storage administrators out of work! But then EMC is going to continue to charge outrageous money for their storage, and it’ll continue to be necessary.
And yes, my home network is very robust if not a little overkill, but then I wouldn’t be a good tech nerd if it wasn’t. I have over 20 TB of storage in my home with most of it being redundant across multiple storage arrays and several Hyper-V hosts acting as infrastructure for my personal email server (I can do that too, Hillary!), DNS, etc. I just don’t want an OS that’s going to force me into the cloud. I initially thought Win8.1 was going that route, but they pulled the nose up.