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Today, I was reading the CodeProject's newsletter and I noticed an interesting poll they were doing on the use of the different IDE's of Microsoft people are using today. Here's a copy of it.

What was (or is) your favourite Microsoft IDE?

Survey period: 4 Feb 2008 to 10 Feb 2008

We know we missed a few, but during the evolution of The Code Project these were the ones most used by our members.

Now, as was to be expected, the largest part is still using Visual Studio 2005. While 2008 is not actually released to the public (it will in about 2 weeks), already over 1 out of every 4 is using it (and claiming it their favorite IDE for that matter!). Personally, I can only applaud this, as it shows people are happy with the way 2008 works.

What strikes me more however, is the number of people that's still using Visual Studio 6. Almost 20%! And come to think of it: this is a poll done by CodeProject: people reading this particular site are not your regular developers most of the time, but more the "hardcore" devvers.

Let's hope these people will all soon have the chance to upgrade their daily work environment to a much more modern IDE like VS 2005 or VS 2008.

Just today, I was having a discussion on the topics covered at TechDays: Tom Mertens said that many, many developers are still using "old" technology. This graph only shows he's right...