So, no offence, but this reads more like you and your colleagues destroyed a multi-million $ project by trying to save a few dollars by using Windows Home instead of Enterprise?
And you're pissed at MS because of this?
And you're pissed at MS because of this?
These project machines are shipped (or physically hand-carried) by grad students from random universities all over the world. They come from who-knows-what IT department running who-knows-what software packages, often cobbled together JUST enough to get it working because they're so budget and time constrained that's all the resources they had to throw at it. So the lab is full of bespoke machines running a variety of very obscure software, much of it on tailored Windows boxes.
So no, "me and my colleagues" didn't "destroy a multi-million dollar project by trying to save a few dollars."
They are useless for a small team doing a research project.
And yet he wants to completely blame them.