Comments on: Visual Studio 2010 roadmap: final release dates now known

By: Herc

Herc — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:22:44 +0000

Sadly, my current train of thought is very much along the lines of Mark Richman. I have been architecting and developing on MS stuff since MSC 3, but I have a crisis of confidence in the MS roadmap right now.

The Office 2010 team seems to think that a crude web based HTML editor for Word needs SharePoint 2010 64-bit to run, while VS is effectively tripling the price for something that is apparently tons slower than the already tedious 2008 edition.

Here in the UK, we end up paying a UK pound for each dollar you pay, so even with the poor exchange rate this makes the Pro version over $1000.

Developers are the lifeblood of any platform – witness the demise of Novell – so stacking the price and encouraging people to join the dark side it a seriously bad idea.

Things at MS seem to be getting steady worse since Bill gave up the day job. From the outside it looks process-rich, and inward looking.

In 1985 Dec VAXs were the absolute ‘business’. By 1995 Dec was effectively dead. By my reckoning, MS is at about 1988 right now, unless it get back to basics.

By: Abel Braaksma

Abel Braaksma — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:00:38 +0000

Thanks for the link. At the time of writing it was not fully clear yet how the licenses and prices would look like.

By: Keith Elder

Keith Elder — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:04:21 +0000

NOTE: the prices listed here are basically including MSDN, see this for more information.

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/msdn/default.mspx#compare

By: Mark Richman

Mark Richman — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:35:31 +0000

At $11,924, Visual Studio 2010 is yet another reason to switch to Ruby on Rails now!