Microsoft is used to criticism; after all, it’s a standing joke that the third version of any Microsoft software is the first one that works right. But the backlash against Windows Vista in 2008 was ...

It may look like Windows Vista. It shares the same code base as Vista. It even rolls in Vista’s first Service Pack. But in terms of customer adoption plans, Windows Server 2008 is no Vista. A new ...

All the Windows Vista/Server 2008/7/Server 2008 R2 naming mess reminds me of one question: Why was Vista so hated while Server 2008 wasn't? Was it because of the problems of the original Vista RTM ...