Welcome to 2008

I’m working on a Windows 2008 server for a client, and ran into problems doing something as simple as extracting a zip file.

path-too-long

Path too long? Seriously? Doing some searches on the web, apparently even Windows 8– the latest version– has this same problem. Unix solved it around 1975; Linux and Mac systems have no limit and never have. It’s 2014. Why can’t Microsoft figure out a way to allow long pathnames?

Ugh, I can’t believe people use this operating system daily.