Ardent Meridian… incoherent rambletastic techno-babble …

Microsoft really confuses me sometimes.  It really shouldn’t, I worked there for 8 years and saw enough bone-headed decisions in that time to last me several lifetimes.  Even so, every so often I come across something that is so illustrative of restrictive, myopic or just plain backwards thinking that it tends to make my blood boil.

This week has been replete with such issues, mostly centering on brain-dead management of disks and the raw hassle that is trying to get a bare-metal restorable backup of the operating system and provisioning new disks the way I want to.

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