posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 1:06 PM by SimonSabin

Quality of RTM

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A number of people having been commenting on the quality of the RTM versions of SQL and VS. I will leave it to you to find the posts. What I will say is that I concur to some degree. Yes I have the RTM build installed and yes I do have problems, for a start I have 2 versions of the help pages in MSDN, i.e. I do a search and the same page appears twice in the results, why might this happen well its because I installed a pre RTM version.

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Comments

# re: Quality of RTM @ Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:25 PM

Well said Simon. I have the same sentiment but couldn't express as eloquently as you did:)

Yes, I had to go through the pain of rebuilding my machines, one laptop, one desktop.

Haidong Ji

# re: Quality of RTM @ Monday, December 12, 2005 11:34 AM

Pre-released software is just that, pre-released. There are a number of virtualization technologies out on the market that can help people with only one machine. I'm not ignoring the fact that people experienced pain moving between CTPs but you have to admit that it was better to have CTPs with some pain than no CTPs at all.

Dan

# re: Quality of RTM @ Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:28 AM

I fully agree having CTPs is better than not. I am just pointing out that having them so freely available and not having an mechanism for cleaning a machine, is resulting in bad press.

SimonSabin

# Be careful of .Net Framework hell Microsoft @ Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:56 PM

I have encountered a few instances of application failing to install because of the .Net Framework on...

Anonymous

# re: Quality of RTM @ Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:25 AM

I hit a similar problem installing 2005, even though i'd removed the beta software in add/remove programs and rebooted it still said it was installed.

In the end I downloaded the microsoft cleanup tool and ran it, suprisingly it identified that I still had the last CTP installed even though it no longer appeared in the list.

Mike Metcalf

# re: Quality of RTM @ Monday, January 30, 2006 9:34 AM

I read the install notes which told me how to de-install the old version. This I followed and I had no problem. I have found Control Panel - Add Remove Programs pretty good.

I would also recommend MSft Virtual Server which I got for free at TechEd. Using this I have been able to deply 2005 servers without any serious mishaps.

jonathan