On 31/10/06, George Birbilis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And why should we do so? I still don't see what .Net offers
> what FPC can't do better without adding another dependency on
> Microsoft.
Because there will be no more Win32 API use from Microsoft in the future.
Don't count on that! Most DOS and 16bit apps still run on Windows.
lose the .NET train now. All future applications for Windows will have
managed .NET APIs etc. and you won't be able to interoperate with them
easily from your app if you don't support .NET. Eventually Win32 API will
die off (even though MS tends to keep on supporting old APIs for years for
existing customers to not leave to other vendors [I like it they do so])
Just like Microsoft promissed that MFC is everything, yet I haven't
really seen Microsoft using MFC for all it's product development.
Then, lets look at the current. Microsoft promissed that the new
Office, SQL Server and Windows Vista will all be written in almast
100% .NET. Yeah! Windows Vista latest RC was analysed by some
company (another OSNews article) and found that over a 1000 different
apps included in Vista, only around 5 were .NET apps. Yes Microsoft,
we know you believe in your own products! Anybody heard of Microsoft
BOB - another next big thing 10 years ago? :-)
Graeme.
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