Install as I say not as I do.

As we all know the pace of change in technology shows no sign of abating for good or ill. In software terms it’s a continual moving walkway of new patches, version and features, usually for the better sometime not so. I’m both lucky and cursed to be able to install a wide variety of new software where I work and at this moment installing a beta of ArcGIS 9.4 (or 10 as it will soon be) onto a new copy of Windows Server 2008 R2. I’ll soon be downloading and installing a copy of Visual Studio 2010 onto that virtual machine as well. Lucky eh? Well yes and no, lucky because I get to try out new...