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by ndiddy 801 days ago
I'm used to newer computers, so Visual Studio 2008 was my favorite Visual Studio. With VS 2010 and later, Microsoft decided to scrap the existing Win32 based UI and rewrite it in WPF, which made it take 20 seconds to start instead of less than a second. Even after it's started, it's far less responsive than 2008. If only Microsoft offered a "Visual Studio 2008 but with modern standards support" product...