alt Hacker NewsI got the chance to evaluate vendors for a huge enterprise because I was assisting their CTO. I vividly remember the sales guy who flew from Redmond to pitch the shiny new Hyper-V virtual machine platform Microsoft had just developed to compete head-to-head with VMware.
“I tried the beta and it couldn’t install successfully if I set my regional options to en-AU.”
“Umm… that’s just a cosmetic issue.”
“It’s a hypervisor kernel, it is going to host tens of thousands of our most critical applications and it crashes if I change one of only three things it asks during setup. My confidence is not super high right now.”
Etc…
I got the impression that Microsoft is used to selling to PHBs based on the look of shock on the guy’s face when I told him that I not only installed the product, but benchmarked it too for good measure.
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“I tried the beta and it couldn’t complete the installer if I set my regional options to en-AU.”
“Umm… that’s just a cosmetic issue.”
“It’s a hypervisor kernel, it is going to host tens of thousands of our most critical applications and it crashes if I change one of only three things it asks during setup. My confidence is not super high right now.”
"Well, it said it is beta, didn't it? The quality of the installer of a BETA hasn't anything to do with the quality of hypervisor itself. "
MS still makes they same mistake. Date format in Teams is just broken. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1403096/...