what were they thinking?

.net 4.0 CTP was out (about a month ago, nothin new), and I was excited to try it out.. but then I was on vacation and dint have my laptop either (having quit my previous company), so decided to wait a while.. 

as soon as I was done with my new company's formalitites, first thing I did was to go look for the CTP.. started by checking my MSDN subscriptions page, but found nothing there.. then found this download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655-93D0-4476-BDA4-94CF5F8D4814&displaylang=en

excited, I went to the download page..

the headline says, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 CTP.. hmm (?!).. then I scroll down to see it's a 7G download, split into 11 parts! 

I'm like, what?! werent you guys satisfied with bloating up Vista? did you have to go bloat up VS as well?! and then I quickly glance thru the page and find out that the 7G download is a VPC image..

rright.. the good thing is, at least they didnt bloat up VS.. (can't say for sure.. I'm just hoping they didn't..)

but then, why on earth should I EVER download 7G of whatever? why couldn't they just hand me a VS 2010 CTP ISO? I mean, that would've been what, 2G'ish?

you know what, for me, 7G is about 3-4 days worth of download, even with a torrent.. now, imagine downloading all that over HTTP (yes, HTTP!).. and the download totally kills my online experience.. slow browsing, no youtube, no radio.. on top of that, the bloody thing's split over 11 files.. couldnt they just leave a single file for download? and why HTTP for whatever's sake! why couldn't they just torrent it? what age are these morons living in?!

what sense does it make distribute a VPC image?! people can definitely create their own VPC images if they want to..

so, finally I decided it just wasn't worth my time to look at the CTP.. I'm gonna wait for the official release.. Or at least a more sensible download..

I bet they were high on something while they were doin this.. I'd at least like to know what that was :D