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David Lane wrote: win97
 
Yusuf
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Window 95 maybe and office 97. Anyway we are not allowed to require our users to upgrade to dot net(how lame is that?) so VB6 is still a must.
When prediction serves as polemic, it nearly always fails. Our prefrontal lobes can probe the future only when they aren’t leashed by dogma. The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human propensity for comfy self-delusion. David Brin
Buddha Dave
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I see... Maybe you better off running your legacy development environment in a virtual machine running on top of a Windows XP?
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outsch indeed...lament for the future much? 
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Jon Rista wrote: Contracts, parallel processing, tuples, ISet<t>, co/contra variance,
Ack. I still don't even know how to use Linq. 
Marc
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Great thing about new features is you don't have to use em. 
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I swear if they screw around with my tools again I'm gonna kill someone!
The 3 that will give me nightmares however are Win, VS and .net, as they represent my primary tool set.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Agreed
You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.
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It would be nice to have time to catch our breaths. 
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just as you get use to one version and become proficient in it another one comes out.
cheers,
Donsw
My Recent Article : Optimistic Concurrency with C# using the IOC and DI Design Patterns
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Well, it's not like you're completely lost between each version. It's a matter of ~3/4 weeks before you feel comfortable with the new VS.
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Err, that's the point..? right? I mean c'mon, you want to stop taking advantage of the latest and greatest ideas? doubt it.
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Coming from MicroSoft does not necessarily make it either the latest, or the greatest.
I dread MVC becoming a built-in for VS. I'll start getting tons of resumes from people who know everything about MVC, but can't even define the concept of a pattern, much less the actual implementation of one of the more conceptually complex ones.
Grim
MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB
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When is the last time they added a feature to Office that a regular person actually used. I generally find that they just re-arrange the menu items, change the graphics and re-release.
Hogan
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Need revenue stream so must release every so many years. Users will not be happy with their upgrade price if they do not see any changes so the GUI must be changed in some way..
John
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IMO Office 2003 was good enough. The media & its junkies are one major factor that drives the need for new releases. If you don't have a new release in the pipeline that the media can prattle on about then you get no coverage and hence your usage volumes decline.
Another factor that drives new releases is that the copy-cats will catch up and maybe go past you, a good example is Open Office. Prior to Office 2007 I mostly used Open Office, but when I upgraded one system to Office 2007 for compatibility reasons I soon wanted it everywhere. So I bought a multi machine license and installed it on my other two machines, I've not used OOo since.
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Agreed. Talk about copy cats... I bought a mini laptop [^]last week. With Circuit City going out of business, I decided to get my share. Almost every mini laptop had the exact same processor, screen, ram, and hard drive. So I bought the cheapest one You're completely correct, I got the cheapest one when the features are exactly the same.
Hogan
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urbane.tiger wrote: IMO Office 2003 was good enough.
IMO Office 97 was good enough.
urbane.tiger wrote: The media & its junkies are one major factor that drives the need for new releases
Making money is what drives the need for new releases.
urbane.tiger wrote: Another factor that drives new releases is that the copy-cats will catch up and maybe go past you
If Microsoft stands still they will eventually go bust.
Kevin
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well that was definalty office 7. the menus are different and nothing else.
cheers,
Donsw
My Recent Article : Optimistic Concurrency with C# using the IOC and DI Design Patterns
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Old(same) thing in a New Packet with eye catchy decorations and lots of marketing...
Believe Yourself™  ™
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