Microsoft Rejects Visual Studio Delay Request

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Microsoft has rejected a request from developers to push back delivery of its oft-delayed Visual Studio 2005 in order to fix bugs.

In addition, the software giant said it will include a significant new feature that will be introduced in an interim release of Visual Studio 2005 in the next week. Through a feedback form on the Microsoft Developer Network Web site, developer customers asked Microsoft to release a third beta of Visual Studio 2005, which is due for completion on Nov. 7. In the original suggestion, a customer said that Visual Studio 2005, which had a second beta program in April, has too many bugs and performance problems. "I'd rather have a good product six months from now than a mediocre one in three months," wrote Clint Stotesbery on Thursday.

News source: C|Net News.com

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(1 reply) #1 Code Red on 16 Aug 2005 - 21:45

Well, if they did push it, people would be complaining about that, and now i bet there will be people saying they should have pushed it because of the bugs.

#1.1 Andareed on 16 Aug 2005 - 23:42

I'm hoping that the August CTP is better than Beta 2. I found B2 dreadful to use.

#2 mzhao on 16 Aug 2005 - 23:44

QUOTE

"I'd rather have a good product six months from now than a mediocre one in three months," wrote Clint Stotesbery on Thursday.

That echoes many Neowinians' views on similar topics, including mine.

(3 replies) #3 nonsence on 17 Aug 2005 - 02:24

my only complaint is kinda how fast they keep releasing visual studio versions. on one side, it's the need for newer programming tools. on the other, it's annoying to always have to pay for the latest and greatest. visual studio 6 had how many service packs? vs.net 2002 has 1 so far, but vs.net 2003 came out very fast and basically upgrades project files from 2002 to the 2003 format and then the 2002 can't use them. so basically 2002 is now obsolete for the most part. at least vs.net 2005 sounds like it's gonna have ALOT of new features. so that's good. but still, i dont know i'm just ranting

#3.1 Black on 17 Aug 2005 - 08:50

That was mainly because VS2003 was almost just a service pack release for VS2002 when it came out (mainly to support the then new 1.1 framework) - even the internal version number for it was 7.1 (compared to VS2002 version 7) so you could argue this is really the first proper new release for sometime (vs2005 is version

#3.2 Jugalator on 17 Aug 2005 - 09:12

I wouldn't call 2003 nearly a SP release, with the major advances in the compiler itself for both improved standards support and bug fixes. What do you mean with the version number? I wouldn't say Windows 98 is basically an SP to Windows 95 just because 98 was Windows 4.1. It's just not a major revision like XP -> Vista, but still a new product with noticeable improvements nevertheless. An SP has usually basically just bug fixes.

#3.3 Magallanes on 18 Aug 2005 - 03:42

NO, it's not.

Vs.net taked almost 4 years in development, vs.net2003 take only a few months.

nuff said.

#4 deiong15 on 17 Aug 2005 - 02:26

well when has a .net development studio not had a milion and one bugs

lol i was excited about it originally. but well. ill use the more stable old code and wait til they finally get it right. besides requireing a user to download a 30 meg plus runtime file. naww why bother.
sure they make creating stuff easier now. but since when was easier better ?

#5 Jugalator on 17 Aug 2005 - 09:10

Ouch, this doesn't sound good.

Hoping for an early SP to fix these issues.

#6 XiXora on 17 Aug 2005 - 09:31

lol rediculas...
TBH It's been delayed enough as it is!!!
Get it out already. read the blogs theres only 15 bugs left as they see.

You cant get the final impression from beta 2 anyway if developers are getting all huffy over it.

i'm using beta 2 *OK* as it is. some times it gets al ittle buggy but its a beta i expect it to be fix at RTM ( which is like less than 60 days away

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(1 reply) #7 jimbo11883 on 17 Aug 2005 - 09:43

I hate .net, always will.

#7.1 Gooey on 17 Aug 2005 - 09:51

What a useful comment. Thank you for sharing your insight with us.

#8 nacs on 17 Aug 2005 - 20:58

This is a Microsoft product. Delay a release to fix bugs? Pfft . That's what a million post-release patches are for.

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