View CommentsMigration: Why Developers Hate Microsoft or Why Developers Hate Vista or My First Encounter how Microsoft can Break your Software

• Kronis

  June 18th, 2010 at 7:10 AM

  love windows 7

• bystander

  September 16th, 2009 at 4:51 AM

  Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express <<< that's why it is called express, its not meant to be used for an enterprise scale… that's why back up is not included on the said software.

  • Ian Uy

    September 17th, 2009 at 8:21 AM

    Right.

    But all I'm asking for is the SQL Server Agent support, not a backup utility.

• Rachel Marice Nava

  May 17th, 2009 at 9:16 PM

  okay. I was shocked with the terminologies but it recently came to my attention that Vista sucks big time. and sad thing about it, my laptop keeps on having that blue screen aka "Crash Dump".

• Ivan Lapis

  May 16th, 2009 at 8:10 PM

  Well, I've stumbled upon (sounds familiar?) a article online. It was discussing why Microsoft left any kind of backwards compatibility to older Windows versions. It was mainly for the purpose of avoiding bugs that would conflict by adding milions of line of code just to add backwards comaptibility for older programs, or as he calls. "OLD PROGRAMS".

  I do agree with the artcle that anything that will not run proprly, which he defines as having the inability to run at about 70% of its intended operating abilities, is an OLD program. While those that can still run at right around 90% and has a few cosmetical problems, are OLDER programs…… which means he meant that OLD is REALLY OLD, while OLDER is just a few lines of code behind.

  Microsoft understands that these OLD programs are often business critical applications, but they didn;t want to risk wasting time fixing a good OS just because of bug caused by compatibility codes. So then, starting WIndows 7, Microsoft is stripping down almost all legacy compatibility to its operating system. Thus making it faster, and easier to fix, incase bugs are discovered. Thus, to allow businesses to be able to run OLD programs, Microsoft has decided to add XPM (WIndows XP Mode) which allows users to run a seemless virtual machine that would run XP applications as if it was installed on the host machine. Although, based on my experience with XPM it was a terrible experince…. but since Win7 and XPM are both not yet ready for primetime, I do hope they get XPM to work better.

  So now, Microsoft encourages the developers of the OLDER programs to update their programs to comply with Vista standards. Becuase we all know that Win7 is built from Vista, thus anything that works on Vista should virtually work on Win7 properly. This might be a pain for the developers and certain users but this allows us to move further ahead instead of holding on to the past which slows down the process of improving technologies.

  I hope I made a few points that relate to your article today.

  P.S. have you tried Windows 7 RC? Its the bomb! I'm using it now on every computer I have! I;m loving it already! I don't want to go back to XP or Vista anymore!! lol

  • Ian Uy

    May 16th, 2009 at 8:32 PM

    Good point. Yup, I've read that article too.

    I haven't tried 7 yet. I'm still using XP here at home. My next OS will be Vista since I don't want to miss all the fun of it. After a year or two, I'll be using 7 then. I'll let them iron out the bugs first.