Windows Server 2016 TP4 on Scale HC3 HC2000 Test
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@BRRABill said:
Can you make it come out NOW though?
you can always deploy to the release candidate which is probably available soon. Sounds crazy, but when you realize how their code release happens, 2016 Release Candidate is probably already far better than whatever old OS version you are running on currently.
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@BRRABill said:
On the desktop side, I typically have always felt the first releases (like the now defunct Windows 8 ) to be shaky. I do not think that is a myth.
Well while I don't agree that it was shaky at all (and did a second release ever come?) There is a bigger issue... Windows 8 was not a first release, it was something like the eight patch release and the third minor point release of NT6. So if you had an issue with Windows 8, it completely dismantles your first release theory and just says that "it's random".
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@JaredBusch said:
@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
- Apparently, when have they NOT? Where does this "first release" myth come from? Other than the unique case of Vista, which was a true first release of NT 6.
- This is NOT a first release, this is the latest version of NT 6. If you have concern about lower releases, then that would make you install this as this is the latest update to NT 6.
On the desktop side, I typically have always felt the first releases (like the now defunct Windows
to be shaky. I do not think that is a myth.There was not a single functionality issue with Windows 8.
Honestly, there was not a single problem with Vista either as long as your hardware worked with it. Vista had a driver compatibility problem.All of the "first releases", if you can call anything since NT 3.5 a true first release - and even that, was it not a point release on OS/2?, like NT 4 and 2000 (NT 5) were quite good at first release.
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@scottalanmiller said:
you can always deploy to the release candidate which is probably available soon. Sounds crazy, but when you realize how their code release happens, 2016 Release Candidate is probably already far better than whatever old OS version you are running on currently.
Is the RC the version that comes out directly before the actual release?
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
you can always deploy to the release candidate which is probably available soon. Sounds crazy, but when you realize how their code release happens, 2016 Release Candidate is probably already far better than whatever old OS version you are running on currently.
Is the RC the version that comes out directly before the actual release?
Yes, RC = Release Candidate. Literally a candidate for final release.
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@JaredBusch said:
@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
- Apparently, when have they NOT? Where does this "first release" myth come from? Other than the unique case of Vista, which was a true first release of NT 6.
- This is NOT a first release, this is the latest version of NT 6. If you have concern about lower releases, then that would make you install this as this is the latest update to NT 6.
On the desktop side, I typically have always felt the first releases (like the now defunct Windows
to be shaky. I do not think that is a myth.There was not a single functionality issue with Windows 8.
Honestly, there was not a single problem with Vista either as long as your hardware worked with it. Vista had a driver compatibility problem.Well this is not entirely true. Vista also included a brand new network stack that they wrote that had TONS of holes in it. They dumped that stack with 8.1 though.
