Visual Studio turns 10 years old

It's hard to believe that Developer Studio turned ten years old on March 19th. While I'm not big time Developer Studio Power User I do use it each and every day to write server side software and have so since 1999. Here's why I like Developer Studio.

1. MSDN -- w/o a doubt the best online C++ help
   
2. Intellisense
   
3. Debugger

What I don't like.

1. Resource Hog
1. Leaving the IDE running long term (multiple days) consumes memory and becomes sluggish
2. Sometime Intellisense freaks out and takes minutes to rebuild its database

I still use ddd and Emacs when programming in the unix world and quite honestly I could easily go back to the world of emacs-man-ddd instead of using an integrated IDE like Developer Studio but as long as my employer insists on running the data center on Win32... so be it.