yep, and its exactly because of the backwards compatibility that we all
love windows. you can run anything, on nearly anything. yes, thats
changing, but it has to, at some point.
dallas
On 12/12/2011 08:44, Alex Kenny wrote:
Hi,
Actually, Microsoft goes to great lengths to ensure
backward-compatibility, much more than many other tech companies. If
Microsoft behaved like Apple, i can garuntee that you would not be
able to run VB games on modern machines, because MS would have removed
support from their OS as soon as they decided to stop supporting it.
Take the Windows API, for example. It's been around since 1985, and in
order to ensure compatibility, MS just continued to add functionality
and hacks. Because of this, the API has become extremely bloated with
some redundant functions and annoying limitations. In Windows 8,
they've created a whole new API, but are still supporting the old
Windows API, despite the fact that it probably adds incredible bloat
and increases the complexity of the OS.
Because of this, I have to disagree with you that MS doesn't care
about backward-compatibility. They have many, many faults, but that's
not one of them. There comes a time when backward-compatibility must
be broken to allow for improvement. We had to say goodbye to the DOS
command prompt, Windows 9X and 16-bit software. We will probably be
saying goodbye to VB support as well. Of course, if Windows 8 is the
last to support VB, you'll still have lots of time to upgrade, as
Microsoft supports its operating systems for quite a while.
On 12/11/11, dark<d...@xgam.org> wrote:
Hi Alex.
As I said I'm not annoyed that Microsoft update their os, they have to,
even if we don't like some of their decisions on interfaces etc.
it just seems though that they don't give a dam about running older
programs, games or anything else, they just claime "newer = better" it seems
without actually considdering what people want their computers for, namely
to run programs.
comador didn't do this with their os or machines, even with compltely new
hardware, going from amigar 500 to 1200.
Even the big console developers are realizing that people like running their
old games, hence the wii virtual consoles, virtual arcade and other such
software versions of older games stil available on modern machines.
Microsoft though just seem to expect everyone to update, buy their products
and cope, because newer is always better in their opinion.
for myself, if i could be certain all my games and other applications would
work under windows 7, I'd be much less wary about updating.
I just see this as a case of not listening to the customer and doing their
own dam thing and expecting everyone to cope simply because they are a big
fat company who just care about the prophit.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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