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Review title: Just want C++ equals not a Professional?
Product review: In general, I'm pleased with this product.Although a number of people complain about the new IDE, it really isn't all that different. After 6 years of using 6.0 almost daily, I was worried about upgrade pains, but in one morning I was able to configure it to perform similarly to the old 6.0 interface, but with the added advantage that it does not crash every other compile. And finally, partial template specialization! No more iostream.h!What really annoys me, however, is the fact that this, the Standard Edition, does not include the optimizing compiler. Apparently, a REAL developer would not buy this product. Cleverly, Microsoft does not offer a C++ Professional edition that would include this feature, but be less than the outrageous $1000 ($500 upgrade) for the full studio. Like I want to write in Visual Basic .NET!
