On the vCenter HTML 5 Web Client
I've been using the HTML 5 web client for the past couple of weeks now, and I wanted to post my impressions so far. It's obviously not feature-complete yet, but most of the "day to day" functions are there. I'm really impressed by what I've seen, it's snappy and intuitive; everything that we wanted the old web client to be. It kindof reminds me of the whole Windows 8 to 8.1 to 10 progression. In Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a lot of new ideas... but they really changed the way people worked and they did so in ways people didn't want. It was too new. In 8.1, they scaled it back and then in 10 they scaled it back again, until I feel like Windows 10 has a nice balance of new features/philosophy while still respecting the way that we do our work. The Flash Client was too new; it was Windows 8. We had completely new work flows that felt awkward and alien. They weren't bad, but they didn't respect the way that we had all learnt to work....