Re: Visual Studio and Vista

MS is in the same security boat that IBM found itself 30-40 years ago with
their mainframe OS MVS. MVS was also lacking in security and the changes to
MVS IBM had to make to make it secure broke a lot of code.

Mike Ober.

"Karl Seguin [MVP]" <karl REMOVE @ REMOVE openmymind REMOVEMETOO . ANDME
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While they won't be supported, it's said that 2002, 2003 and 2005 will
work
on Vista for most people. It'll probably depend on the kinda stuff you are
doing.

So I wouldn't necessarily jump the gun for your own development, maybe
you'll be one of the lucky ones with no problem. I totally agree it
shouldn't be a problem for anyone, but since Vista has shipped, there's
nothing we can do about it now.

The reason [we are given] is because of the new security features and the
need for debuggers to do some low-level stuff which Vista simply doesn't
like. It looks like A LOT of software development tools are going to have
this issue running on Vista (i.e., all the Java tools out there will need
to
have special releases).

God knows I'm not defending microsoft on this point. Their solution to use
Virtual PC sucks. The fact that they've had years to fix this problem
sucks!

But for the most part, I'm really really hoping it won't be a problem for
anyone (ok, truth be told, I'm hoping it won't be a problem for ME :) ).

Karl
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"Mark Rae" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Juan T. Llibre" <nomailreplies@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Have you read Somasegar's blog on this ( and the comments in it ) ?

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/09/26/772250.aspx

Yes - that pretty much reinforces it...







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