So I've just downloaded and installed Windows 2008 R2. 8 hours (or so) after installation, here are my thoughts:
- It takes a *really long* time to upgrade an R1 installation. On my PC it took three hours to run the upgrade. I do have 2 terrabytes of disk space on-line so that may be a factor, but still that seems like a very long time.
- My HP scanner stopped working. After a visit to HP's web site, it looks like no HP scanner currently supports Windows 7 (on which Windows 2008 R2 is based, or vice versa). Comments on forums do not give hope for a quick update to HP's drivers and as my scanner is an 8250 (an older model) I may be out of luck. Time to find an old PC I can install XP on to run my scanner, I guess.
- Nero 7 doesn't work either. Nero's web site says that older versions of Nero (prior to V9) won't support Windows 7. This sucks as I use Nero to burn my Audible.com books to CD (I refuse to install iTunes on my PC). I did find out that I can run Nero in an XP Vmware workstation VM and in that environment I am able to burn CDS...Perhaps my scanner will work in a VM as well...?
- My volume shadow copy software won't work with 2008 server R2. I'm hoping that this is simply a matter of recompiling it with the latest SDK, and to that end have downloaded and installed the Windows 7 SDK.
- The interface has changed a bit. Not sure if I like it more than the Vista interface of 2008 server (sp1). Let me use it for a few days and I'll get back to you...
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