Open and Extensible

Open and Extensible · Buwin Technology

Open and Extensible · Buwin Technology — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:10:07 GMT

re: Open and Extensible

Wed, 21 May 2008 05:25:41 GMT

The way I see it, VS is great. Interoperability is needed, but it's not the focus that MS needs right now.

Visual studio 2008 is probably the best quality product that MS makes. Even though it has bugs, they are few and I see them being fixed. But VS is nowhere without the OS. This is where MS needs to refocus.

Quality and reliability are sorely needed. The last 5 years have been horrible, beginning with Vista and continuing this with the awful performance of Office 2007. Outlook with BCM actually crashes, *crashes* no less than 4 times per day for each of our employees (we would migrate to something else but we're stuck in BCM). This is just not acceptable today and needs to be fixed.

Our faith in MS is with Visual Studio, since we're developers. But it's the last product left that's good.

I really, honestly, couldn't ever fathom the day that we'd jump ship from Microsoft and it saddens me that I'm even writing this article. Our company is starting to purchase Macs at our office just to get our work done (they run Vista better, but that's 80% hardware, still there's a 20% improvment).

Please, MS, do what you did with VS 2008 on the OS and Office. Go back and just do a single release where everything is fixed.

re: Open and Extensible

Sean Echevarria — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:54:13 GMT

How about opening up Visual Studio Express editions to VSIP/VSX extensibility?

re: Open and Extensible

Andrew Webb — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:21:25 GMT

Advertising on your blog?! Why? I don't see it on other MSDN blogger's sites.

I come to your blog to get the definitive, official announcements about upcoming development stuff - the beta of SP1 for VS08 and .NET 3.5, for example. Somehow having advertising seems to cheapen the experience, and makes it less official. It's a sad day to see advertising here. The blog's official and definitive status has been compromised.

Surely Microsoft doesn't need the money.

My advice: get rid of the advertising asap.

re: Open and Extensible

MegP_MS — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:09:08 GMT

B - I'm sorry to hear that you are facing issues with Outlook/BCM. Can you please contact us at the following address: bcmteam@microsoft.com - so we can get in touch with you and help you with these issues?

re: Open and Extensible

Somasegar — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:34:47 GMT

Andrew,

Thanks for the note. It definitely isn't for the money and in fact whatever little money happens goes directly to a charitable organization.

-somasegar

re: Open and Extensible

Mark Gordon — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:24:59 GMT

SOMA,

Why not release the visual foxpro source code (and plz dont embarass yourself and bring up sedna that is not even worth the effort) ... Better yet sell FoxPro and visual basic to another vendor so we can have a real choice in development tools. This might also give you some creditability... Until then this is all smoke and mirror nonsensical ramblings ! Microsoft is only concerned about profit, otherwise M$FT would not have to pay billions to the EU... MONOPOLIES SUCK !!!

Mark

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Andrew Webb — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:08:05 GMT

Soma,

Thanks for the reply. If the advertising only generates a "little money", could not you (and/or DevDiv as an entity) donate to charity directly, quietly, without having the advertising?

The advertising makes it more difficult to read your blog, especially when the eye is being distracted by the animated Flash stuff. You must know what it's like from your own web surfing. Technical blog entries and flashing eye candy trash don't mix.

Also: you're a senior and respected member of the Microsoft developer team. Your blog statements are definitive. Ergo your impartiality must be beyond reproach (which I'm sure it is), but as importantly the PERCEPTION of your impartiality must be beyond reproach.

I type this while trying to ignore a flashing advert for Aspose's components... not a very pleasant experience.

Andrew

开放性和可扩展性

Joycode@Ab110.com — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:38:36 GMT

[原文地址]： Open and Extensible [原文发表时间]：Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:42 PM 今年早期， Microsoft 宣布了一系列范围广泛的改动。这些改动针对