Andreas Erben's posts : rants

PDC07 "rescheduled" rant

Andreas Erben — Fri, 25 May 2007 04:30:33 GMT

I cannot express the amount of frustration that hit me when it was made public that the PDC07 is to be "rescheduled". Even though I received the info one day earlier than the regular public, it was too late anyway.

Did Microsoft just realize what the release dates of their new technologies would be and what they have lined up? Announcing the "rescheduling" so late means for developers and partners like us that quite a bit of our schedule for this year is messed up. We cannot just re-plan everything to visit other conferences or even go to TechEd in the summer. After all, the majority of our time is dedicated to our customers.

Furthermore we are not the only folks who already had their travel planned, plane tickets and hotel booked, because of knowing from experience how bad it can get when you try to book late. So, thank you so much for wasting our money.

Please Microsoft, act as professional as you expect us partners to be.

Windows Live OneCare’s confuzzled info on time left on trial

Andreas Erben — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:49:00 GMT

Just a mini rant:

Windows Live OneCare the other day gave me a fat reminder pop-up regarding my trial that I have only 21 days left on my trial:

Though, when I look closer, I seem to have 30 days more left, 51 days in total:

Please, just make up your mind. (If there is a hidden grace-period, then I would not want to know :) )

And, yeah, I know, I only use OneCare as a virus scanner right now, so please no comments about the "at risk" part.

Vista blues with Visual Studio 2005

Andreas Erben — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:45:00 GMT

Yes, I know – Visual Studio 2005 is not yet supported under Vista.
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista is not yet out and only then it is promised that it will be supported. But I am getting my doubts it will work smoothly after SP1 is released. Too much is not quite right.
Simple things are often a pain, productivity has gone down, everybody in the team on the Vista bandwagon can sing about this.

Still, a developer who wants to be on the edge has no choice to do this even unsupported to gain the experiences now that he/she needs tomorrow, so I think it is time to share our pains.

See how creative Vista get´s in making our VS 2005 user experience so Aero, we can only fly away.

Check out the attachment below for an even more interactive experience.