Re: RANT: Is 2006 ready for the big time yet?

I don't mean to minimise the problems you're seeing, even though alternate
position view recently worked for me on an assembly of around 800 parts. I
was trying to get at the sentiment that the older versions are so superior
that everybody would be more productive on them. Barring specific
limitations, I just don't find that to be the case. SW was certainly more
stable in those days, but that stability isn't enough to outweight the new
capabilities. Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones. I was forced to revert back
to 2003 when 2004 was current, and it certainly didn't save me any time.
That same company wants deliverables in 05, and I'm faily certain that I'm
more effective in 06.

None of this is justification for the general decline in quality, of
course. New functionality and reliability are not mutually exclusive
concepts. We should have both, and we certainly don't.
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