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Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003
mithridate writes "Microsoft has posted the Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate. eWeek has a short review of the service pack. My favorite quote from the article is, 'The company argues that the improvements are important enough that applications should be changed to accommodate them.' I know I still have not installed SP2 because of the problems it causes with SQL Server, I can't wait to see what kind of havoc it causes on the servers..."
But up2date tells me I need to upgrade about 50 million packages and they're all urgent security issues.
Once people are happy with what they have (and most people **are** happy with Microslop), then they are not motivated to buy more. I know a few people who still use Win95 because it is enough. I still use Win98 for the kids games (but with no internet access).
So how do you force people to buy the new stuff? Break the old stuff.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Talk about crazy... My GF's best friend has a PC running Windows Server 2003, as her home computer. Her main applications are... ...MSN Messenger and Internet Explorer. Mind you, this was when WS2k3 was still in beta.
All this is running quite unhappily on a Pentium II, 266 with 64 MBs of RAM. When I saw this snail / turtle-like behemoth of a computer I was baffled that it ran a 2003 install with absolutely everything installed and turned on! Except for anything resembling a firewall.
I asked her where she had gotten this computes, as it was clearly set up for dealing out some MS SQL data, although I'm not too familiar with it so I didn't look into the files on the filled-to-the-brim hard-drive.
It turns out, her brother's GF is a market droid at Microsoft here. She had given a computer that was in private use by some developer or something and meant that (actual quote): "2003 is just so much better, just look: it's three years more advanced."
I swear to Buddha, that's an actual quote as told to me by my GF's friend.
How the hell can Microsoft push ANY product, let alone the crap they force-feed down people's throats? I knew that their programmers had their panties in a bunch or were oblivious to obvious problems. But their salespeople too?
This was a woman that had won the seller of the year award or some crap. Clearly, she doesn't have a clue to what she did, or have any facts for back up her decision. If I had met a clueless salesperson like her I would have kicked her out after ten minutes in my office. If she had not noticed the Macs around by then or what they were, she clearly has no business there. (Except maybe for selling Office for Mac, a very good product, but she was in the OS division)
I was offering a consumer solution that is suitable for the home. For an office environment I would recommend a commercial grade router. I still wouldn't take that guys hobbyist advice.
Hmm... Development?
When an app goes to production, a few things happen: 1) You add a network layer that didn't exist in your development environment. 2) You add a server OS that didn't exist either.
If you're going to develop, might as well use an environment that somewhat mimics your intended environment.
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but you forget...they use visual source safe to manage their control not cvs...so it's not like branching is really an option, or even something that would be thought about.