Hi, And to add to Dallas's post one reason Windows 7 and Windows 8 run as well as they do is because Microsoft did some long over do house cleaning when it comes to legacy code and libraries. They did their best to trim the fat per say out of the operating system, and some stuff clearly had to go because they have been around too long, were causing problems maintaining, and that is why, for example, all the Visual Basic 6 libraries were removed. Its legacy code from 15 years ago that was quite frankly no longer needed by the majority of Windows users.
Our problem is that many of our developers chose to use VB 6 for all their games and applications and when Microsoft decided to drop support for it many developers got left holding the bag. Since many of them aren't professionals they don't know any other programming languages and will have to relearn everything from scratch in order to update where someone who was programming for a company in VB 6 10 years ago got paid training to migrate to VB .NET, C# .NET, or something else so were eased into the process by their employers a long time ago. Developers like myself who largely use C or C++ were better equipped for the changes just because I wasn't tied to a technology that was phased out of existence. Cheers! On 5/2/13, Dallas O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > The only thing to keep in mind here, is that although the blind community > still like their 16-bit applications, 99.9% of the rest of the world, > stopped using 16-bit, a long, long, long! Time ago. LOL. And that, is what > Microsoft have to keep in mind, when creating an operating system. There is > very little point, in keeping a huge amount of code, just to keep 16-bit > alive, when very few people are using it. And of course, you can still run a > version of the older operating system, in a VM where, or other virtual > machine. For all intents and purposes, you could have a Windows 8 computer, > and have virtual versions of Windows 7, windows XP, windows ME, or any other > version you desire. Or even Linnux on top of that, so I don't see that these > are generally reasons not to upgrade. > > Don't get me wrong here guys, windows XP was fantastic in its time. But > although XP still has its uses, for the older applications, Windows 7 > upgraded things in a way, that most people don't realise, until they use it > for a while. > Very much like Windows 8 did so, and I have used windows eight now, for > nearly 2 years. So I have had the chance to play around with it, and see the > overall usage of it over a period of time. I agree however, that windows > eight is a bit of a change, if you're not ready for it. It is different > enough, to confuse people quite a bit. That's probably the only thing, that > Microsoft made a mistake with. They changed the UI a little too much, and > it's now very difficult to learn to use it at first. Once you do use it for > awhile though, and you're used to it, it's fantastic. > Regards: > Dallas > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
