Dude, Microsoft doesn't listen to customers... don't kid yourself


Umachandar Jayachandran [MS] wrote:

Hello susiedba (AT) hotmail (DOT) com,

s> Dude, Microsoft doesn't listen to customers... don't kid yourself

Ha! I had a nickle for everytime they listened to me and the customers I
worked with, I wouldn't need to work. You've either got an axe to grind or
don't have a clue.

Thanks,
Kent Tegels
http://staff.develop.com/ktegels/

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:03:09 +0000 (UTC), Kent Tegels
<ktegels (AT) develop (DOT) com> wrote:
in <b87ad74a0568c8bc58f4dcddd0 (AT) news (DOT) microsoft.com>

And you clearly don't have any code assets in VB6 :: no forward
migration path other than a complete rewrite. And SQL Server 2000 won't
be supported on Vista. It seems yours is a rather myopic view.

---
Stefan Berglund

Hello Stefan,

SB> And you clearly don't have any code assets in VB6 :: no forward
SB> migration path other than a complete rewrite.

Yep, I woke and smelled the coffee early. All 40+ of my VB4/VB5/VB6 applications
are now running faster and more reliably in .NET, most of them since late
2003. I'm sorry if *you* are stuck in the stone ages, but frankly, *you*
made that decision.

SB> And SQL Server 2000
SB> won't be supported on Vista. It seems yours is a rather myopic
SB> view.

Yawn. I hear very few of my customers or users even talking about adopting
Vista anytime soon -- there's nothing in it that's an immediate driver for
them. I am hearing chatter about IIS7, so *maybe* Longhorn looks to be painful
for them. Of course, they still have the option of running on Server 2003
R2 until they are migrated to SQL 2005.

So I'm not so sure that I'm the only one that's suffering from myopia, Stefan.


Thanks,
Kent Tegels
http://staff.develop.com/ktegels/