Microsoft 2008 Server

March 25th, 2008

Is it 2008? I am just checking because I thought maybe it would be high time to bake in the ability to mount an ISO into a modern operating system. You know, like OS X does.

Seriously! And don’t think I don’t realize I am sounding like a turtle neck wearing, smug, metrosexual developer. Dang it, I hate that, too!

This may be a pet peeve, but c’mon! I just want to mount an ISO without downloading 3rd party software and instead I get Texas Hold’em baked into the OS installer disk?

AAAaaaaargh…

David Starr Uncategorized ,

  1. BigJimInDC
    March 25th, 2008 at 10:34 | #1
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    I can’t agree more! And dare we ask for a better NotePad (ala NotePad ) and a better Paint (ala Paint.NET) too?

  2. Sergio Pereira
    March 25th, 2008 at 10:35 | #2
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    The reverse operation would also be welcome, save a directory as an .ISO file.

  3. Lloyd
    March 25th, 2008 at 10:46 | #3
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    Hey, while we are at it, and since 2008 and vista sp1 are supposed to be based on the same code, bake it (both mounting and creating) into Vista as well… All versions, not just the really expensive ones.

    I don’t own turtlenecks either. 8^)

  4. Pieter Joost van de Sande
    March 25th, 2008 at 11:44 | #4
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    I know support zip archives was a big issue a few years ago. Gues Microsoft’s monopoly is the problem for stuff like this.

    But I agree, it would be great to have ISO support from the Microsoft bits.

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