Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta period extended

Dr. Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft recently mentioned on his blog that the release of VS 2010 has been moved back by a few weeks, as they are focusing on including user feedback after Beta 2 release. The fact is that VS IDE consumes alot of memory and has a habit of getting slow which kills the whole purpose of the IDE that's making programmers productive. And this is pretty much the problem users faced with VS 2010. The virtual memory usage has a lot of problems (IDE crashes are an evidence in that direction) and that's what Microsoft wants to look at and fix. I think it's better to delay the release and get it right than meet the deadline and push over the shit to the poor programmers.

Here's the note,

At the same time, you have also given us feedback around performance issues, specifically in a few key scenarios including virtual memory usage. As you may have seen, we significantly improved performance between Beta 1 and Beta 2. Based on what we’ve heard, we clearly needed to do more work. Over the last couple of months, our engineering team has been doing a push to improve performance. We have made significant progress in this space since Beta 2.

With these improvements in the product, we do want to make sure that they truly address the performance issues while continuing to maintain a high quality bar. As a result, we are going to extend the beta period by adding another interim checkpoint release, a Release Candidate with a broad “go live” license, which will be publicly available in the February 2010 timeframe.

Since the goal of the Release Candidate is to get more feedback from you, the team will need some time to react to that feedback before creating the final release build. We are therefore moving the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 back a few weeks.

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