New Product: Hyper-V Server 2008 (huh?)

I have owned several Audi cars, in part because I live in the mountains of Colorado, and Audi's Quattro all-wheel-drive system is unbeatable in my experience for traction and safety on snow and ice. However, the cars have all been disasters in the wiring department. The joke was that after hiring the best mechanical engineers available in Germany, the company had no money left to hire good electrical engineers. So they could only afford the "wurst" available. (Sorry.)

Microsoft has been wildly successful by buying, modifying, and developing software products. However, if I didn't know better, I'd suspect that after paying all their programmers, the company has no money left in the budget to pay the people who are in charge of naming products. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000...come on people! Have a little imagination. Server 2003, Server 2008, yawn, snore... and then when they actually come up with a decent name (e.g. Vista), the product is a dog. (Bet you those people in the Mojave Experiment commercials never tried copying a 1GB file from a "Mojave" PC to a Server 2003 box.)

These people even come up with names that include prepositional phrases, for Pete's sake. "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security." "Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V." These are terrible names. However, there's nothing bad that the Microsoft naming gurus cannot make worse. The latest product out of Redmond? Hyper-V Server 2008. As distinct from Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V. Sure, no possibility of confusion there! As Dave Barry is fond of saying, I am not making this up.

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