RE: Speed

Hi Mike,

> Is Windows 7 going to be faster than XP?  Is VS 2010 going to be faster
than the preceding versions?  I'm seeing very positive reviews of these new
products, but nobody ever talks about speed, which is the only thing I care
about.

If our testing is anything to go by, Win7 is comparable to XP in performance
and if other reports are accurate is certainly capable of running on a
smaller footprint than Vista. It's certainly worth a look if you're bringing
in new machines (I'm not a fan of OS upgrades).

VS2010 is another matter. The verdict is not yet in on the new WPF based
editor, but my gut feeling (and based on what I've seen from beta
installations) I'd say that VS2010 is going to have a significantly bigger
footprint than VS2008, and the volume of change in this release may have
some consequences in the RTM.

It has always seemed to me that Visual Studio releases follow a two-step
pattern - one release where they try to change too much (VS5, VS2002,
VS2005) followed by which consolidates the changes of the previous release
(VS6, VS2003, VS2008). My instincts tell me that VS2010 may (unfortunately)
be in the former camp. The plus side of that is of course that the next
release after VS2010 - call it VS2012 for now - will probably be a good one.

I can't help with Silverlight etc. I'm afraid - I'm a native C++ dev.



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