[snip] > That's how MS took over the world, by providing full backwards > compatibility with MS-DOS apps of 1981.
MS also do parallel installs in order to provide new functionality without breaking old applications. For instance, the MSVC++ DLLs. Going off topic: As someone who has wasted countless weeks creating installations for Windows applications, I believe that the idea of backwards compatability (or even compatibility between various installs of the supposedly same versions of Windows) is a myth. There are problems and people work around them. People who are tied to Windows don't bother much complaining about it because they know nobody's listening. [snip] Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
