Again, *why* do people use Windows?
Get ready for a whole new experience.
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional Manual, Page 1
Truer words may never have been printed.
So, I wanted to set up a Windows development box at home to do a bit of .net work on the side. .Net is one of those Microsoft technologies that I’m actually warming up to.
Well, my whole new experience with windows turned out to consist of spending an entire Sunday upgrading my PC to Windows XP Pro, installing IIS, installing VS.net, installing SQL Server admin tools, and patch after patch only to have none of the items cooperate with each other. After 3 more hours of googling and trying every conceivable fix, I went to bed.
The next day, I enjoyed a lovely 4 hour session of wiping my hard drive clean, and reinstalling every single application.
Ah yes, the joys of Windows. It’s good to do this once in a while to appreciate the ‘other’ OSes that are out there that much more.
