!link! - Sharepoint Designer 2010 X64

The splash screen hangs for 347 milliseconds—an eternity in 2010-time. The ribbon renders: , Workflow , External Content Type . Each icon a fossil of on-premises ambition. 64-bit addressing means nothing if the data source is a dying Access database on a forgotten file share.

In the end, you export the site as a .WSP. Visual Studio 2010 refuses to open it. You rename it to .CAB, extract manually, and cry over the Elements.xml. The 64-bit world promised more memory, not more sense. sharepoint designer 2010 x64

— A short technical requiem