Why I buy this one ?
- DELPHI 2006 PROF NMD NEW USER CD

What our customer's say!

"Borland Back on Top ( Well Nearly !)", Delphi 2005 was like a slap in the face to Borlands loyal customer base and boy have they paid the price for it. A Google search for it would likely bring up blogs with people complaining about it. It was possibly one of the worst development products every produced.

So have they learn there lesson with 2006. In a word, Yes for the most part.

The new features are great but you can read about them anywhere so I won't say any more about them other than the fact that they pretty much do what they say they will.

The question is, 'Is it more stable and usable than 2005'?
Well I've used it now for about 3 weeks and it hasn't crashed on me apart from once ( and that was due to repeatedly debugging my code, which had a large memory leak ). It is much faster to start up now that I don't need to load up all the .net stuff just to develop my Win32 app.

The downside, well the help still sucks with a lot of stuff missing, the same slow interface is annoying compared to older versions of help.

In short Delphi 2006 is pleasurable to use, it works and is pretty solid. Just use google instead of the built in help