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Posted on 10/07/2019 8:51:26 AM PDT by dayglored
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Not just VMWare but Oracle VirtualBox too.
This hurts my business. Also prevents linux, ubuntu and others, I think.
“DOS isn’t done until Lotus won’t run!”
I had a project setup using VMware and couldn’t keep it working reliably under W10.
This forced update would cost me personally about $200 to fix for VMWare. I give up; moving critical things to Linux.
I’ve been piloting various Linux distributions since the Win 7 “forced upgrades” caused everyone to block them.
Microsoft has really screwed us.
Yikes. A lot of my engineers have VirtualBox running on Windows 10. Not looking forward to this week's breakage...
“In a thread on Microsoft’s site, one affected user complained that upgrading their 100 VMware Workstation licences would cost €11,500.”
Makes one wonder if MS has any vested interest in this end result? This kind of reminds me of the McCafee fiasco when they were installing their own viruses and then charging to fix them.
Could it be rigged rather than an accident? I would not put this past MS to do on purpose.
Curiosity to learn here... How could it affect Linux, Ubuntu and others?
Classic case of "Don't do as we do - do as we say" if I ever saw one...
Of course, the whole article and replies beg the question...
Why is anyone running business critical systems on a client operating system???
Folks, the Windows client (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10) is not meant to be a server.
If you need a server, get the server—not client—bits to install the OS.
Client systems are supposed to be used by an individual user, or multiple users one-at-a-time, such as shift workers.
The cost of the server license (whether Windows or a paid for Linux variant) is more than offset given the horrors and potential costs of a less robust client OS eating you apps, data, or not upgrading properly.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-pricing
The link is for Server 2019.
Server 2016 is great, robust, and if installed using Server Core, almost never needs an update and keeps on chugging 24/7, 365—and a lot cheaper!!! ($500).
Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise comes with Hyper-V.
Use it. No license fee.
Maybe since you do IT support, you can help them:
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/migrate-virtual-box-vms-windows-10-hyper-v/
Good morning, all you Windows beta testers!
Alas, my work is almost entirely with VMware (ESXi, Enterprise, Workstation), and I haven't had occasion to work with HyperV, so I'm not a good resource there. I'll check the link you sent, in any case.
I'd say, unlikely... with one caveat. Microsoft wants people using HyperV, so their concern about breaking other products is secondary at best.
Unless one needs direct compatibility with VMware or VirtualBox VMs... :-)
So true, so true. And yet a few hundred dollars makes many people decide "Oh, it'll be fine on the client OS". And then I end up supporting their bad decision when it causes problems. Drives me crazy.
*sigh*
Working with servers, I agree that VMWare is a better solution than Hyper-V, just for the aggregate management solution VSphere provides. Microsoft has a centralized management solution for Hyper-V called System Center Virtual Machine Manager, but no one uses it or even knows about it. I love it but it rarely encounter it doing my thing consulting, so the business demands VMWare expertise.
Azure, for example, has a ton of software to migrate VMWare VMs to the cloud but nothing really for Hyper-V VMs, and it’s their own product. The now say they “Love” VMWare.
But for individual computer users, using Windows 10, Hyper-V is part of the OS, and really simple to manage.
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