"The latest Orcas road map has just flown out the window: Microsoft vice president S. “Soma” Somasegar told SD Times in mid-April that there is no guarantee that the next generation of the Visual Studio development environment will ship this year. Rather, beta 2 is the big milestone for 2007.
According to Somasegar, the first beta bits will ship this month but will not be feature-complete. A second beta will follow later in 2007, but Orcas’ final release date remains nebulous. “We are not in the habit of shipping software before it is ready,” Somasegar explained." "Somasegar guaranteed backward multitargeting for the present, but would not promise it beyond the Orcas edition of .NET. “We cannot plan future editions of .NET around Orcas,” he said." <http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20070515-01.html> Comment: If I remember correctly, there was this big conference in Las Vegas announcing the release of .NET 2.0/VS 2005 in November of 2005? Weren't people going to get fired if it wasn't released by the conference date? And during this conference, the first thing announced was a service pack? So much for the "shipping software before it is ready" comment. And isn't the last comment laying the groundwork for future broken backward compatibility? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
