"Microsoft has a problem. Vista, its long-awaited update to the Windows operating system, can't run the current version of SQL Server. The company is working on a SQL upgrade that is compatible with Vista - called SQL Server 2005 Express Service Pack 2 - but it's in beta and can be licensed only for testing purposes. Microsoft hasn't set a release date for the new SQL program. So companies looking to install Vista, which went on sale to corporate customers Nov. 30, are going to have to get their database management software someplace else."
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Member since:2006-11-19
Vista will also be used on developer workstations. For example our department received Business edition licenses for development purposes.
However it currently has major problems for developers:
* Visual Studio 2005 is not fully compatible, and an update to VS 2005 SP1 (which also isn't available for public) will be released to fix this
* PowerShell does not have an installer. There are guides on the web how to install it in an unsupported way (it works, however the procedure is complex)
* Now SQL server is included to the list
If we also think that IIS 7 is not completely backward compatible, I guess we'll have hard time with Vista until 2007 Q1, by when they promised to release patches to fix all those problems.
(Nevertheless Vista is a nice upgrade from XP, and personally I'm still using it on my Windows machines).
Member since:
2006-04-11
Isn't Vista a desktop OS?
I mean the server version of Windows is like Windows 2007 1337k6 Ultimate Premium Edition.
Why would this "haunt" Microsoft? The millions of soon-to-be Vista users crying out in horror about how they can't test DB functionality locally?
Edited 2006-12-17 00:33