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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows Server is rather common in large enterprise software. All the stuff you pray you never have to interface with

[–] Asudox 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sure is convenient. You get a user friendly GUI. But the stability, the resource intensity and the spyware. It's really a retarded decision to build your servers on Windows Server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but some software, and it's usually a financial application, requires a Windows Server.

I've seen it more than once, as I had to set up the machine, I was dying inside, but there was just no alternative that the accounting could use.