Fresh from an almost missable US launch of Zune, Microsoft was back on familiar ground Tuesday touting server, security and admin software to reassure shareholders the company's future is bright. Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president for server and tools opened the company's IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, by promising a third, and final, beta of Windows Longhorn Server during the first-half of 2007 with full product availability by years' end. Microsoft also officially launched its PowerShell.
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Member since:2005-07-05
But it isn't though.
I recently had two similar hard drive failures. One was on my Linux machine and the other was on a friend's Windows laptop (Sure his laptop is XP, but I've seen Vista builds and the directory structure, while better, is still problematic).
On Linux, I simply copied all the contents of my home directory to a portable hard drive, replace the bad drive, reinstalled Linux and copied everything back. I had to configure a couple of minor things a bit, but overall, it was a simple process.
On my friend's Windows machine, the only damage to files was done in the Windows System32 directory. Everything else was intact. However, it was almost impossible to restore his drive because things were sprawled out all over the system.
The first two things Microsoft could do to clean their directory structure would be have home directories and limit regular users ability to save anything outside of that, and get rid of the stupid alphabet partitions. They are retarded.
Edited 2006-11-16 07:36
Member since:2005-08-11
You could have just did a repair install with a XPSP2 CD, that would have fixed his system32 directory, then ran windows update. No need to copy things to another drive, except to maybe backup data. Just because things work differently, does not make things better or worse, just different.
Also considering that I was comparing XP's filesystem layout to Vista's, your entire post is irrelevant. You also disagreed with me on the first sentence, then agreed with me 3 lines down. Please, make up your mind
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-08-11
Vista's directory structure is much cleaner then XP's already, so I guess you're right