VS2008 Launch: So who do YOU believe?

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From an article on the Visual Studio 2008 launch:

 

"...it's a lot of stuff to take in all at once.

"There are so many new and upgraded features in VS 2008 that it's hard for enterprise developers to assimilate them all," notes Jennings. "I think it's going to result in more specialization in enterprise-level developers, because no one can be an expert now in all of these different technologies -- WPF, WCF, WF and the new LINQ-related features."

Jay Roxe, Microsoft's group product manager for Visual Studio, sees it differently: "The amount of technology that people need to learn has gone down dramatically because we now have these great designers," he says, adding that Microsoft is releasing a lot of educational content in terms of presentations, demos and white papers. "This will be something that's integrated into all of our launch efforts and will be available from all of our Web sites, and that's when we'll start tying together the various technologies."

 

Personally I find it very worrying that the group product manager's opinion seems so completely at variance with that of all the developers I work with. I'm definitely with the first guy, so is there anyone here who's drinking the same KoolAid as Jay Roxe and seriously think that "the amount of technology that people need to learn has gone down dramatically". WTF!

 

In other news has anybody managed to go to the HeroesHappenHere virtual Launch and NOT get user-unfriendly SIlverlight errors when clicking on the "Join in*now"*button. I've seen a lot of reports that it's broken so went to have a look myself and yup sure enough "Silverlight error message ErrorCode 2202 ErrorType:RuntimeError Message: AG_E_RUNTIME_FINDNAME MethodName txtLoginBackgrounElement4c01".

 

Oh well, it's only the "biggest launch event Microsoft are going to have this year".

 

I like Microsoft and the people I've met who work there, and get annoyed constantly trying to defend them left, right and centre. But too often there are times like this where frankly it just seems like they can't organise a you-know-what in a brewery. The "Vista compatible" farce looks like it's going to totally blow up in Microsoft's face given the recently leaked emails and experiences like the launch web site don't instill any kind of confidence at all.

 

Do you agree, or am I just being too cranky again?

 

I want to believe Microsoft, I really do, but for pities sake sort your wretched QA out!

 

EDITED TO ADD: Link to original article here

 

 

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