| From: | Tim Seifert |
| Date: | 2 May 2001 at 17:07:44 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: St. Louis? |
_Replying to a message_
By: Neil Bothwick <neil@wire.net.uk>
To: Tim Seifert <dopus5@lss.com.au>
On: Wednesday, May 02, 2001, 11:15:30 PM
Re: [D5] Re: St. Louis?
Hi Neil,
Gee, are you bored, Neil? That's a very old message...
TC>>> Forcing people to upgrade by breaking things and preventing older
TC>>> things from working is Micro$oft's way.
TS>> I'm not saying it's a brilliant way of doing things, but it's a fact
TS>> people have to face. Applications have to be coded to work with the
TS>> operating system, and that's how it's down. The operating system is
TS>> the only /official/ way to do things.
NB> Being official., there is a responsibility to maintain backwards
NB> compatibility. You can't simply release an upgrade that breaks
NB> everyone else's software and say "tough, this is the official way
NB> now".
Agreed that they "shouldn't," but once they've done the dirty deed,
programmers have no choice. They either produce software that's compliant
with the current OS, or non-compliant; and risk having people ignore using
it.
(I'm dropping an ISP soon, don't send mail to bigpond.com addresses.)
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