Both of those were crap. MS peaked around 2010. Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 - these are fantastic OSes, better than any Windows OS before or after on any metric

Both of those were crap. MS peaked around 2010. Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 - these are fantastic OSes, better than any Windows OS before or after on any metric I care about. Exchange 2010 was an excellent product, Active Directory resolved some management niggles, Powershell reached version 3...