MSDE will not run on Vista...

I am not entirely sure what I think about this news that MSDE, the free version of Microsoft SQL Server, will not run on Vista.

While there are many reasons to migrate to SQL Express 2005, I can see there being completely valid reasons why someone might not want to. I have no applications that depend upon MSDE in my current lifetime, but I have encouraged others to use it in appropriate circumstances. I certainly can imagine an application that I would want to run on Vista that was tied to MSDE that might be difficult to migrate to SQL Express 2005.

Personally, I imagine this may be another decision that will later be recinded, like the change that allowed SQL Mobile to become SQL Everywhere and thus run on regular PC's, even after Microsoft swore it would work only with Tablet based PC's.

Posted by Douglas Reilly at 12:49 PM  Permalink