… As a service
on 01.18.06, 07:50pm in software • comments (4)
Sigh. I guess 2006 is going to be the year of "<insert new idea of the week> as a service".
I dunno, perhaps I’m in the minority, but I don’t want to have my developer environment ’service’ enabled. In fact, the first thing I do when I install Visual Studio is to shut off the online help (whats wrong with MSDN library?), the community links, etc. It just slows down start up time, and frankly I found that I never used it.
The last thing I want to see is more "stuff" thrown into the VS IDE - do we really need to stuff the entire kitchen sink into my code editor? Some days I just miss CodeView. Perhaps I should move back to command line tools and a standalone editor, such as SourceInsight.
I wonder how long until Furrygoat’s Law will take its hold on Visual Studio. Or Notepad. Or Recycle Bin.
Sigh.
Ken Partridge (January 18, 2006 @ 10:37 pm)
Sigh, I still use VS 6.0. Its small enough and light enough. I know when i goto the new visual studio it will run like a dog on my machine.
Where is my copy of DOS based Brief, it’s here somewhere.
Graeme Williams (January 19, 2006 @ 7:39 am)
Too late. The default configuration for Visual Basic 2005 Express *opens* with a news feed. This being Microsoft, the feed hasn’t been updated since November 7th, but nevertheless I think that Furrygoat’s Law has been satisfied.
David (January 20, 2006 @ 6:58 am)
Well, but if “service enabled” would mean that one had access to say a hosted version of Team Foundation Server either via ads or a subscription plan, I wouldn’t mind at all.
Adam Vandenberg (January 20, 2006 @ 8:21 am)
At least Visual Studio lets you set the RSS feed to use on the start page; I’ve set it to a list of active bugs.