| From: | Patryk �ogiewa |
| Date: | 3 May 2001 at 00:08:50 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: St. Louis? |
Hello Tim
>>>> Forcing people to upgrade by breaking things and preventing older
>>>> things from working is Micro$oft's way.
>
>>> I'm not saying it's a brilliant way of doing things, but it's a fact
>>> people have to face. Applications have to be coded to work with the
>>> operating system, and that's how it's down. The operating system is
>>> the only /official/ way to do things.
>
>> Being official., there is a responsibility to maintain backwards
>> compatibility. You can't simply release an upgrade that breaks
>> everyone else's software and say "tough, this is the official way
>> 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.
There _is_ a choice: programmers ignore "current OS" and hence it will get
NO applications support. Then "they" learn the lesson and either produce
new OS versions that "are compliant, or non-compliant and risk having other
people (not only programmers) ignore using it". ;-)
Regards.
P.S. Good to revive some old flames, huh...?