Time For The Long, Long Deinstall/Reinstall Process Software and Technology

Thursday, October 27 2005

Time For The Long, Long Deinstall/Reinstall Process

Two huge releases from Microsoft were RTMd today, and were immediately made available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads: SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005. This is very good news, and delivering over a week before expectations is a wonderful PR move (although, to be fair, in the grand scheme of things they're both terribly late).

While their application servers are encountering some load issues, I managed to download both of those products (coming in at 2.7GB each) in about 2 and a half hours on a home cable modem connection (Cogeco is a great provider). Microsoft must have some incredible bandwidth feeding Redmond.

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Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.

He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.

Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 15 years.