How compatible is Katmai with Windows 7?
OK, as pretty much everyone knows by now, Windows 7 hit RC. So I decided to upgrade my Vista box at home. I’m gonna take a minute for a diatribe because I’m still just so upset with the whole Vista experience. You can’t tell me that the devs at Microsoft didn’t know that Vista performed like a dog because I’ve got it on a pretty beefy system and it’s slow as hell the second I put just a couple apps on it from a fresh install. I’m pretty upset that everyone at Microsoft either didn’t test Vista or didn’t care when the results turned out so poor. There’s just no way, and I mean no way, they could not have known that Vista has such horrible performance problems. And they pushed it out anyway. This is the kind of stuff that has earned Microsoft the reputation it has. I will say that over the past couple releases, the SQL team at Microsoft seems to be doing a far better job than the Windows team. I tried the upgrade, and during the system check, it shot up to warnings: Visual Studio and Kat
