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Pissed about Vista and MSDN subscription

Me and a friends were talking about how annoyed we are that Vista just hit MSDN, less than a month after our subscriptions expired. I'm sure there are a lot of people like us, who are independent developers that bought in right around the Visual Studio 2005 launch, with the implied promise of Vista in the distance. We were hosed.

I don't think they ever promised Vista would be available, but I certainly remember that it was implied.

Although, if I were really being honest, the next OS I'll pay for is going to be Leopard anyway. :) 

Posted: Nov 21 2006, 12:03 PM by Jeff | with 9 comment(s)
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David Taylor said:

I feel sorry for you Jeff.  Yes the assumption at the time would have been that Vista would be out.

I had a similar story regarding Visual Studio where I paid for a MSDN Universal subscription but did not attempt to "pick" which Team System version I upgraded too until after June.....and they told me it was too late at that point so I needed to stick with Visual Studio 2005 Professional!! (even though I had a valid MSDN Universal subsciption until a month or so ago).... :-(

# November 21, 2006 12:29 PM

Derek H said:

OK, stupid question. What is Leopard?

# November 21, 2006 1:31 PM

Jeff said:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html

# November 21, 2006 3:36 PM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

Who cares Jeff. It's not like you'll be missing out much.

Personally, I can't see any reason to upgrade anytime soon. Apart from the fact that I don't have a top of the range desktop lying around which I want to put this resource-hog on, I'm quite happy doing my ASP.NET development on XP Pro, Win2003K etc. And I can run .NET framework 3.0, so what's the point?

I must be missing something here. Someone tell me. Curvy corners? Glass UI? Loads of fancy window managers for Ubuntu look much better and are less of a  resource hog.

Derek - Leopard will be the next major release of MacOS. Current one is Tiger.

# November 21, 2006 3:43 PM

Gabriel Lozano-Morán said:

Even if Vista would have been released a little bit sooner you do realise that your license to use it for development, demo or evaluation purposes would expire together with your subscription?

By the way why don't you buy a TechNet Plus subscription for $370 a year that includes all the Microsoft software except for the Visual Studio environments.

# November 21, 2006 3:43 PM

Jeff said:

Yes, thank you for the lecture on licensing. I'm aware of it, but I also believe you're wrong. I know Visual Studio for sure you can use indefinitely.

I'm aware Vista isn't worth paying for, and that's the reason I don't intend to buy it. It's just the geek in me that wants to play with it. I haven't looked at it since the CTP days, and even then I was underwhelmed.

I guess I'll continue running XP in Parallels on my Mac Pro for development, which is probably cool and the gang for the time being.

# November 21, 2006 4:28 PM

doc0tis said:

Yeah Jeff,

I agree with you about Vista. I will not bother with it, no reason. Definetly getting a Mac next. Windows is really pissing me off.

--doc0tis

# November 21, 2006 5:12 PM

Joe Chung said:

You can get Vista if you buy the next version of Visual Studio with an MSDN subscription.  It will probably come out in late 2007 or early 2008, about the same time as the next Windows Server release.

# November 21, 2006 10:39 PM

Jeff said:

I hate to say it, but so far I don't see any real compelling reasons for that upgrade unless it's an inexpensive $50 upgrade like the one between 2002 and 2003.

# November 21, 2006 11:13 PM
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