UltraSPARC

Mods don't make that kinda stuff public. All they'll say is "Verified" to us peons. Unless a mod is Steve Balmer, which you should probably watch out for flying chairs headed in your direction ;-)

I do agree that reinventing a platform for the mobile and touch era is absolutely essential. Yet don't you think it would have made more sense to grow the Windows Mobile 7 for Phone (or whatever they're calling it these days) into the tablet/gadget ecosystems - and kept the desktop operating out of it? Win 8 feels like it tries to be too many things in one package. Sort of a jack of all trades, master of none kind of vibe going on with it. I hate to say it, but Apple has been very successful with this approach (Mac OS X and iOS). Don't get me wrong, Apple has been blurring the lines recently - but it's mostly been adding features from the other OS that help compliment each other.

First thing I did as a power user was install a Start button on my workstation and disabled all of the annoying hot corners. Don't even get me started on Server 2012, do you know how hard it is to hit the hot corners in a windowed RDP connection?!?!?! I had MSDN help troubleshoot an Exchange 2013 issue the other day, and even he was getting pissed off with it. Oh, and while we're on Exchange 2013 - what. the. actual. fuck. Seriously, who the hell thought it'd be a good idea to replace the ever so versatile Exchange management console with a bare bone website that isn't even capable of changing a quarter of the settings EMC was!!! Also Metro, why must you subject me to an interface made for smartphones on a power user desktop and server?!

In closing, I hope you were not the one behind so many of these heinous changes that really pissed most of your customers off.

Edit: OK I realize this came off as quite harsh. I will say that the task bar being on multiple displays is a very nice touch, the new task manager is awesome, and there are some pretty cool new group policies. Sorry for the rant, just a bit frustrating when it seems that your UI department is out to lunch most days.

Hey should verify it after he downloads it. I use this when I'm feeling parinoid...

http://checksumtool.sourceforge.net/

I appreciate it, man! Unfortunately my client doesn't want to spring for true business grade connections which cost several thousand a month. We have an EoC pipe at work which never goes down, and when it does they have 2 hours to bring it back up or they face fines (aka free service). But we spend $3,000/mo for this luxury...

You're a pretty handsome guy now! No homo.