What a tangled mess…. Tackling Windows Complexity.pptVIP

What a tangled mess….Tackling Windows Complexity Rob Short Development Manager Windows NT Microsoft Corporation What I’ll talk about The problem Hardware detection/installation issues Application installation Managing large installations Today’s Situation Computers are being used by everyone 100 Million installed Windows systems Feedback indicates severe problems Changes are unpredictable add/remove hardware add/remove software Windows is too hard to manage both in single and large environments Hardware configuration Obvious: This should not be hard most systems have less than two dozen devi