Channel 9 - Discussions by sjsmith http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by sjsmith http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/sjsmith/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/sjsmith/Discussions en Fri, 24 May 2013 04:36:02 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 04:36:02 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Anti-virus Software My thoughts are you should just tune the security center with alerts that let people know they are not protected and then link them to a page that any of then vendors can add their content too which provide places where end users can click and download the software to their computer.

Nice, quick and anoying, the perfect security compromise.

S.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4728-Anti-virus-Software/3ffac46abe754384a6449dea0117f757#3ffac46abe754384a6449dea0117f757 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 04:16:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4728-Anti-virus-Software/3ffac46abe754384a6449dea0117f757#3ffac46abe754384a6449dea0117f757 sjsmith 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/sjsmith/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - MSN Messenger, MS Office Spell-Checker? How about having some of those nice red squigly lines under badly spelled words just like Office and MSN Mail?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4039-MSN-Messenger-MS-Office-Spell-Checker/47371d44f2d7453daf9e9dea01170dcf#47371d44f2d7453daf9e9dea01170dcf Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:22:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4039-MSN-Messenger-MS-Office-Spell-Checker/47371d44f2d7453daf9e9dea01170dcf#47371d44f2d7453daf9e9dea01170dcf sjsmith 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/sjsmith/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - SQL Server 2000 is losing ground -- Where the H**L is Yukon? Ok, I want a good stable product.  I suspose I just want a good stable product more offten then 5 years apart.  At the enterprise level we are being forced to squeeze every last ounce of productivity out of the tools we own today.  If tools are driving down development cost or delivering lots of end user satisfaction then there is a problem, period.  From my point of view Analysis Services looked like a sure thing bet for the future.  The reasonably quick iterations beteen 7.0 and 2000 provided lots of good enhancements.  At this point my disapointment comes from these facts:

1) We are still struggling to bring OLAP to the masses.  However the design experience in SQL 2000 was nice back in 2000 but 5 years?!
2) The integration between Analysis services and Excel in the XP timeframe got lots better.  Then 2003 shipped and we got nothing....
3) SQL reporting services was a great add-on.  Don't get me wrong I was in the launch video, but we still need an end user power query tool. (Don't even get me started about MS Query in Excel).
4) Partitioning...  yikes.

I think at this point I would have been happy with the 2000 product with some productivity enhancements.  A more incremental approach where functionalty improved ever 2 years would have bee welcomed.  (Yet, again don't get me started about the SA value we have received from SQL 2000.  I agree reporting services came out but how many people run the web gui on SQL server?? without extra licenses.)

Shawn

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/2483-SQL-Server-2000-is-losing-ground-Where-the-HL-is-Yukon/99f78a49e15f42799ce79dea01145daa#99f78a49e15f42799ce79dea01145daa Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:37:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/2483-SQL-Server-2000-is-losing-ground-Where-the-HL-is-Yukon/99f78a49e15f42799ce79dea01145daa#99f78a49e15f42799ce79dea01145daa sjsmith 31 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/sjsmith/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - SQL Server 2000 is losing ground -- Where the H**L is Yukon? Ok, with the recent news Yukon is going to be delayed (again!) until 2005 I really have to ask what the SQL server team is thinking delaying this product this long?  I have seen demos and quite frankly it looks amazing, but, it is now due early 2005.  Some of the things in SQL 2000 which looked really good when it was released are starting to look quite frankly pretty clunky by todays standards.  These things include the Analysis services UI, Partitioning Support and DTS.  Quite frankly some of the other vedors are starting to get it right and the ease of use of some the new tools just blows the SQL 2000 design environment out of the water. 

Microsoft, get this thing out the door.  I don't even care about CLR functionality at this point, I just want a more usable product for delivering business intelligence functionality.  You can give me the CLR bits later.  Management is starting to ask if SQL was the right decsion? 

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