Anyone else smell the burning rubber from the m$ juggernaught?
Bill Anderson wrote:
"Longtime reader and correspondent Phil Daley, a developer for a
software vendor, dropped me a line saying he's three weeks into a
four-week project to evaluate one of his company's products on Windows
Vista. The goal is to identify any problems and recommend changes and
fixes.
Daley tells me his company has a dozen install issues, but they're
somebody else's problem. On the other hand, he has just found one
command (out of 140) that crashes in Vista but not in XP.
He isn't surprised. "I don't think you can expect apps written a year
ago to support new [operating system] changes," he says.
Daley is being kind. Call me old-fashioned, but surely managing and
supporting backward compatibility should be a foundational design
issue for the next generation of the dominant PC operating system. No?
What's really interesting is that he notes that with Vista, running as
administrator solves a lot of application problems, as does turning
off user account control. "
"The problem for Microsoft is it's the only company that can drive the
security agenda forward, but it looks like Vista may not be the engine
to make that happen."
<http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2006/082806backspin.html>
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