In the "Launch Week", where all the attention is around the official
releases of Visual Studio 2005 family and all developers are start thinking to
migrate their project under the new .NET 2.0 environment, an interesting
news comes out: a Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio .NET
2003 will be released and the plans are for releasing it around April
2006.
This is an important news I think, a good sign that Microsoft has its
attention focused also on customer's support. I know that VS2005 is the future
and new projects must be done on this new platform, but if you work with
customers you undoubtely know that you can't migrate all their actual
application under the new environment so quickly and
instead you've absolutely to provide support.
The VS2003 SP1 is a step on this direction: helping developers to provide
support to customers.