from Longhorn to XP SP2

Its a mere 3 days to go before xmas, and still i havent worked on my xmas gift list hehe. But im still hoping for the best and hope i can squeeze it in before xmas.

Anyway, we've just ported our machines in the office from Longhorn winhec bits to Windows XP SP2, a move that has been lingering months before. It seems that microsoft aint supporting the Winhec and PDC builds of Longhorn anymore. Looks like Longhorn wont be available anytime soon. The move actually is alot better since things are alot more stabler in xp. We Installed Windows XP SP2, Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and The Avalon Community Technology Preview (inorder to continue development on new key technologies). Anyway, we in the infrastructure team came in first (but some of the developers where already in XP), we had to reconfigure and recompile the build and test machines and task to suit the migration. The builds would really have to wait so that the daily builds wont be interrupted. I will be reconfiguring the scripts and reinstalling the test machines later.. hopefully :).

My manager also emailed me links to the new Visual Studio Team System, i did go through some of the stuff yesterday and ssems a very promising move from microsoft to integrated team development essentials such as source code management and testing. This will be a great step forward and would probably increase production and quality two folds hehe..

Anyway, I was supposed to have a meeting today with the folks at bobson jeans regarding the new layout for the site but they just had to cancel at the last minute. Another day wasted, i intended beforehand to accompany jack in the dawn mass a while ago and go to mega mall to buy gifts, but the meeting (which was announced the yesterday) left me to postpone that, and guess what! they would probably ask for the meeting tomorrow, just my luck.. :)