Microsoft Acropolis Disappointment... What the heck are you people talking about????

There sure is a lot of disappointment in Acropolis being put out there for something that isn't planned to released for another 9-12 months.

Goodbye Acropolis, I hardly knew you
Disappointed - extremely disappointed!
Acropolis or Acrapolis?

I agree that the releases are no where near complete, but come on, it's a product for a product that is not even close to being finished yet (Acropolis will NOT ship with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5)!!!!!

I will be the first to admit that if we can't get to the guts of the Acropolis framework and it is not completely open for customization at a code level, we will probably shy away from it. The last thing I want to see is the CAB turned into a VB 6.0 like tool that makes you work twice as hard when implementing low level features.

We have used the CAB extensively and so far the direction of Acropolis looks like it is on the right course in relationship to the concepts being evolved. Time will tell how well this framework will meet the requirements of enterprise level development, but there is a lot of time left before it needs to.

I plan on spending about an hour or two playing with this release and then waiting on the next one. Playing with that for an hour or two and waiting on the next one. To be fair I don't plan on taking any of the releases seriously until after the release of Visual Studio 2008. We will be watching it's evolution and raise any red flags when appropriate. But right now in the course of evolution it isn't much more than primordial ooze.

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