End of life for Windows Server 2003 R2 is July 14, 2015

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/26/2015 07:26 AM, weaselcat wrote:
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> Might as well just use wine, it's pretty darn good nowadays.

Relatively speaking. I'm definitely glad to have it, but I still have 
occasional problems with it, with various programs. For example, I had 
to give up my favorite code editor because of problems under wine. And 
wine isn't gonna help at all with stuff like TortoiseGit or Hard Disk 
Sentinel.

And then a lot of windows stuff needs to be run under mono rather than 
wine, and mono has occasional problems, too. GitExtensions, for example, 
absolutely loves to crash (and integrates with the system GUI even more 
badly than wine). Although I admit I don't know if GitExtensions's 
crashiness is due to mono's implementation of winforms, or just 
GitExtensions itself, since I haven't tried it within windows.