Re: New items in registry with each upgrade of Runtime application
From: Adam Ulrich \(MS\) (adamu_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/19/04
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:09:16 -0700
Isn't Chris just as charming as ever? I go away to do a different project
for a couple years, check in on the newsgroups and answer a vba question,
and wow, my first day back, and Chris presents me with an Award? Chris, you
really shouldn't have! And I'd like to thank all the little people who made
this award possible....
Seriously, the answer in 2 years hasn't changed. The PDW for XP was not
designed for the scenario you describe. Yes, if you have 100 users on a PC,
you need to install it once per user. I didn't design it, I didn't code it,
and I didn't test it, but I want to help people be as successful as possible
with the tools that microsoft makes. So I did research (believe it or not, I
did not consult a single KB Article!), and after reading the product
specifications and speaking to the PM who designed it, the developers who
coded it, and the testers who tested it, the conclusion was that it is not a
bug, it was done by design. I said then that it is a poor design, and it
still is. I said then that it may not be very palatable, and it probably
still is not.
Two years has changed a lot a microsoft, and we are asked to be more open
and honest with customers, while being respectful at the same time. So here
goes: teams at Microsoft are under the same pressure that all development
organizations are; ship a product with a given feature set with a finite set
of resources. Cuts have to be made, and priorities for what technology we
should invest in happen. Given the resource constraints on the team that
built the XP Developer box, it was decided that the PDW was not going to be
a huge investment area, and recognizing that there was a reasonable
alternative for packaging and deployment in 3rd party form, it was designed
for a simple scenario that could be built with limited resources. The
overall teams focus was moving away from Access and towards SQL and
Exchange. Given the belief that people would move away from mdb files and
towards msde, that Access developers for any more than 5+ users on a single
pc or a distributed system would build a SQL app, not a mdb (jet)
application, and the belief that msde would eventually ship as a system
component, the team did the right thing. You can certainly argue that they
didn't prognosticate the future well enough, or that they were dillusional,
but it doesn't change what they built.
BTW, I haven't seen Rita in 2 or 3 years, but by pure coincidence, I have a
meeting with her on Monday, and I'll be sure to rub the fact that she got a
Chris Mills PDW most useless Microsoft Employee award taken away and that I
was given it instead!
Sounds like you have a nasty cough or illness there, I'd get it checked.
Indeed.
Warmest regards to you and yours!
Adam Ulrich - Test Manager (MS)
"Chris Mills" <phad_nospam@cleardotnet.nz> wrote in message
news:%23VaZp2YVEHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > >I would like to nominate **** (Microsoft PSS) as amongst the most
> > >useless Microsoft employees ever to walk this earth.
> >
> I take that back.
> I would like to nominate for the PDW award:
> Adam Ulrich -Test Manager (MS)
>
> Re: install for all users Program group (XP)
> microsoft.public.access.developers.toolkitode
> 2002-05-23 approx
> Read the whole thread. (search Google). What does it reveal, Tony?
> ...and though it was only a side issue for that thread, what do I mention
in
> that thread but the subject of this thread? Two years ago but going on for
5
> years. 5% of my lifespan. OkOk, 10% counting the PDW stress...
>
> > very disagreeable.
>
> indeed. Test Manager...<cough>
> -----
> "Access will handle it for you internal"
> "I don't think it's an known issue for Microsoft."
> -Mingqing Cheng, 2004
>
> "each one will have to log in and install it separately"
> -Adam Ulrich, 2002
>
> "Scuse me I'm gonna be sick"
> -Chris Mills, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
>
>
>
>
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