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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
The moral of the story is this: Don't buy Microsoft software and expect it to work. Cracked copies are much more likely to work on the versions of Microsoft Windows that are included on new laptops.
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There's something VERY odd there, Andy. The company I work for uses exclusively laptops and we've been installing Visual Studio (VS6, VS2003, VS2005) for many years - we've installed literally hundreds of (legit) copies of it. Never had a single installation problem, that I can remember; it just works. I wonder what it is about your laptops that make is so unreliable? If your university has a support contract with Microsoft it might be worthwhile to raise it as a support issue and try and track it down.
We find VS to be competely stable. I certainly wouldn't just accept the fact that "it's unreliable" - it isn't, in our experience. I've been developing with VS (and its predecessors) for something like 15 years and find it to be a superb development tool.