| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 2 May 2001 at 14:45:30 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: St. Louis? |
Tim Seifert said,
TC>> Forcing people to upgrade by breaking things and preventing older
TC>> 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".
> When we went from Workbench 1.3 to 2.x, things broke, applications had to
> be re-coded. The same happened from 2.x to 3.0.
That only applied to applications that broke the official programming
rules. It was mainly going from 1.3 to 2.0, people learned their lesson
after that. Correctly coded programs continued to run, I still use
software I installed when running OS 1.2.
Cheers
Neil
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