The sort of points that might kill a bee¹
- VB6 runtime support will be supported in Windows7. Woo?
- Not sure I like where they’re going with the Visual Studio 2010 interface. I want fast, efficient and productive; not pretty.
- I have over 300MB of images in my Wallpapers folder (I love that W7 has a built in wallpaper changer). And surprisingly 0 boobies.
- I willingly installed iTunes (with QuickTime) and Safari 4 (beta) tonight. The Safari installer was nice; it asked what extra bits I did/didn’t want.
iTunes just went for it, and I had to remove a pile of junk later.
- I fired up the version of a customer facing application I developed at work. It was replaced by a new and improved version (that I didn’t write) in 2006. My old version presents the EXACT same look’n’feel, offers more features and is at least 400% faster according to the benchmarking tools I used.
We’re upgrading to an “even better” platform in June/July. Current test site is 1000% slower than the current site, let alone my site. Performance is not expected to improve, but it’s got more wizzy bits now.
¹ Sorry, private joke.