Upgraded to Win 10
Well I bit the bullet and upgraded my Win 7 desktop to Win 10 I did our laptop win 8 and all went well so next was to see if I wanted to do the desktop. I have a couple of old programs and was worrie...
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Sam Spade wrote:The answer is not obvious or I wouldn't have asked the question. Visual Studio is a development IDE and there have been a tremendous amount of improvements made to IDEs since 1998. A more robust and capable IDE can be had for free from Microsoft. At this point using that program is not at all like an old shoe - it's problematic and ill-suited for today's technology.bwanshoom wrote:
I was asking an honest question, not condemning him. Sheesh.
And I was saying that the answer should be obvious.
It's like an old shoe; it serves the purpose and is comfortable.
Marketing is trying to convince us that changing just for the sake of change is good. It is a LIE.
Since he specifically said "need" and I specifically quoted "need" it sounds like there might be another reason other than the ones you listed like he develops programs targeted for older hardware or architectures or he's using 3rd party libraries or SDKs that are no longer updated, etc. So I asked the question - to him, not you.
